Lest one imagine that this erosive scenario applies only to Indigenous or land-based peoples, one should consider hypotheses of nature-deficit disorders, which holds that loss of time and free play outdoors […] is impending creativity, learning, and spirituality, and enhancing the accumulation of stress, and incurring numerous health and behavioural problems[…].

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That the Chinese still do it when they are away from their homeland with regrettable result to themselves, is evident from cases reported by Manson (1880) in a Foochownese, by Koo (1924) in a Shantunguese, Seymour (? Cantonese), from South America (Cantonese), from the Philippines (Amoynese), and recently in this hospital in a native of Kiangsu who got the infection in Yokohama.

In contrast to the hundreds or thousands of study hours required to attain fluency in other languages, a general consensus among Toki Pona speakers is that it takes about 30 hours to master.