Who cares how many words Eskimos have for snow?

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Is language a collection of sounds, words, and facial expressions, or is a way of looking at the world?
Does language preceed culture, or does it merely define it?
How does language affect attitudes or perceptions?
Do the word we choose affect our perception of the world? Or is it the other way around?

"Toki Pona is a constructed language designed by Canadian translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa. It was first published online in mid-2001.

Toki Pona is a minimal language. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are relatively universal among cultures. Kisa designed Toki Pona to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity. The language has 14 phonemes and 118 words. It is not designed as an international auxiliary language but is instead inspired by Taoist philosophy, among other things.

As a language designed to shape the thought processes of its users, it relies on and demonstrates the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. This conscious goal of the language plus its deliberately restricted vocabulary have led some to feel that Toki Pona resembles George Orwell's fictional language Newspeak." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

What if we could only describe?Toki Pona