robwords doesn’t seem like he’d be as atrociously wrong as hai
I agree, but I remember seeing a cinema-sins style response video to hai’s video and one of the things was like „æktçiuali, the vowels are based on the international phonetic alphabet not the spanish vowel system“, as if there was any meaningful difference between the two and the former would be more recognizable to people who would be hearing about it for the first time, and I think there is a possibility that robwords will be similarly tormented (although the fact that more people are doing videos on toki pona is a good thing)
HAI saying they are based on Spanish was mainly criticized because before he said that, he said that the consonants were based on English, which is definitely not true.
(see Oat Jenkins making a video on learning TP, which had a very positive reception)
I saw that one too, and I agree, it is better than sam’s video
they aren’t based on english, but saying it is is probably easier for people who don’t already know the ipa to understand