Have you ever had a conversation in real life in Toki pona?
What was the context? Was it like with a friend, or like with a stranger?
Since it's so simple to learn I am thinking about learning it just as a networking activity, since it'll pop up eventually
mi sona e toki pona lon jan pona
But after a year of not speaking it I'm very rusty, and the fact that I've been learning madarin doesn't help, because I think I'm transposing chinese grammar onto toki pona
I don't speak it, but given how popular it is, I imagine someone on Earth has already run into another speaker randomly in person.
If you're talking online, then yeah it happens all the time.
ike la mi pali ala e ni. ilo Siko en ilo Ekenpipi la mii toki e toki pona. toki pona pi lon taso la.
Not yet, sadly. Just on Discord, XMPP, etc., and only in tp-situations.