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by janMato
Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:46 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Replies: 11
Views: 23824

Re: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Yeah, but can you express: bodhisattva (बोधिसत्व or बोधिसत्त) —10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_large_numbers since a number is a specific thing as specific as a jan Mato (there can only be one!), why not use proper modifiers, e.g. nanpa Posisap...
by janMato
Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:59 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: pali sona li suli? lawa insa li lili? o mani e mi!
Replies: 2
Views: 5919

pali sona li suli? lawa insa li lili? o mani e mi!

(In honor of our "pay some one to do your homework spam") sina ken kama jo e pali lili sama ni: o weka e mani suli tawa mi mute. mi mute o weka e lipu pi nimi mute ni: ni li ijo sama pi jan ante tawa sina. sina ken pana e lipu pi nimi mute tawa jan pi pana sona. jan pi pana sona li pilin e...
by janMato
Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:43 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: Before I go too far...
Replies: 4
Views: 6384

Re: Before I go too far...

I'd go with jan Loje, in the spirt of discarding too much information, which is what a toki pona phrase typically does.
by janMato
Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:18 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Crazy people want to change English
Replies: 4
Views: 11318

Re: Crazy people want to change English

The point? To be contrarian. I've read a few of these how-to-write-a-fake-language guides, often they are strong proponents of language inappropriate for fan consumption, or in appropriate for script writer consumption (few/no script writers successfully wrote anything in Klingon)-- in other words, ...
by janMato
Sun Jan 31, 2016 6:50 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Crazy people want to change English
Replies: 4
Views: 11318

Crazy people want to change English

So I keep reading all these people discouraging people from making relexes. I get their point that a relex isn't a new language, but sometimes, I think, a creative project calls for an relex, not another unspeakable Elvish. For example, the con-dialects (whole sci fi books have been written in a Sco...
by janMato
Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:10 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Sasin. mi namako.
Replies: 7
Views: 6529

Re: toki! mi jan Sasin. mi namako.

tenpo suno pona! nimi mi li Sasin. mi kama sona e toki pona. ma suli ale la jan Sonja li mama e toki pona mute. mi lon lipu Pesipu (? Facebook). mi lon lipu Wete (? Reddit). taso nimi mi li ante. olin en pona! tenpo suno li pona kin! nimi mi li "Mato". mi kin li kepeken e ijo pi lipu mute...
by janMato
Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:34 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: Unimplemented idea for chanting
Replies: 2
Views: 9541

Re: Unimplemented idea for chanting

Round one of machine generating a long chant. Uniform distributions for picking consonants and vowels, 10% final n, phonetically invalid syllables removed-- all basic words that mean something removed. I didn't try to remove common proper modifiers. I didn't try to favor syllables that are easier to...
by janMato
Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:01 pm
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: Linguistics question
Replies: 1
Views: 8585

Linguistics question

How does one calculate the probability distribution for the odds a character will appear in a word? I'm trying to create a new tp word generator. An even distribution creates words that 50% of the time end with n, which is not what we see in the dictionary, nor in a typical text. Say it had three wo...
by janMato
Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:53 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Tokiponido
Replies: 14
Views: 11585

Re: Tokiponido

Y'all play nice. Topic locked.
by janMato
Sun Jan 24, 2016 7:11 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: 100 words for...
Replies: 1
Views: 2955

100 words for...

lon ma Owiwutu pi sitelen tawa la jan li sona e nimi ni pi nanpa 100: nimi li sona e ni: tenpo ni la meli li awen e tenpo kama li kama jo e nena meli suli tan jan pi pona sijelo. En Hollywood, ili havas cent vortoj por mamegigontino, sed Esperanto havas nur unun. Toki pona has a paragraph about the ...