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might as well use toki-pona, if we are to limit vocabulary to a fixed number of words.
Honestly, you do realize words come and go, right? People who complain that emojis are taking up precious space in the unicode standard ought to be aware that exactly this would happen with a dictionary-styled encoding.
Moreover, are we really that pressed in space (memory/storage) that we need to optimize language for it?
Encoding root morphemes might be a better idea. But then you realize that upon mixing they transform in so many different ways (a change of vowel here, dropping/adding a consonant, etc) that implementing that would be 1000x more cumbersome that the whole unicode standard.
Remember that oftentimes, the simpler idea is the more correct.