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- Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:23 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Amen in toki pona
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4487
Re: Amen in toki pona
I was not thinking “empty” as negative. I didn’t even know it could be read this way? (not a native speaker, sorry). I said “empty” as in “devoid of semantics”, like “Ah” or “hurrah!”. And around here I don’t think “amen” is like that; as far as I can tell, it still carries the meaning of “what was ...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:44 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Amen in toki pona
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4487
Re: Amen in toki pona
Are you sure it’s just an empty interjection? I’m not a catholic but live in a catholic country, and I think more or less everyone knows it has meaning as an affirmation (“so be it”, “verily”, “be it done what was just said”). Like in the English colloquial “amen to that, brother.” So I’m inclined t...
- Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:04 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: things that have surprised me when learning TP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18519
Re: things that have surprised me when learning TP
Btw, I don’t want to give the impression that I think toki pona is at a fault for being too English-like. I could write a longer (but probably more boring) post on things that didn’t surprise me when learning TP even though English speakers (e.g. jan Pije) thought they would, like the syntax for que...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: things that have surprised me when learning TP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18519
Re: things that have surprised me when learning TP
For those of you who are also nonreligious and bothered by the idea missionary work in general, here’s Geoffrey Pullum on SIL and the Pirahã guy: And so we come to anti-Christian prejudice. Earlier in his life, Everett was a missionary linguist working with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the o...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:31 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: things that have surprised me when learning TP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18519
Re: things that have surprised me when learning TP
... My remark about Piriha~ is generalizable across the whole of Latin America and parts of Indo-China, especially if the report comes from SIL folk (personal prejudice). Who or what is SIL? The people who publish the Ethnologue book? http://www.sil.org/ Yup, missionary group http://en.wikipedia.or...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:54 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: things that have surprised me when learning TP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18519
Re: things that have surprised me when learning TP
laso is grue (blue-green) and has been a long time. I learned TP with jan Pije lessons, with simply state laso is blue and laso jelo (or jelo laso) is green. I should have checked the wiki—you’re right, it says laso is blue, green, cyan. A language this small shouldn't have anything beyond black an...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:44 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: things that have surprised me when learning TP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18519
Re: things that have surprised me when learning TP
In a language necessarily full of ambiguities, null subject presents problems in figuring out what the subject is. Not sure if I entirely agree with that. It’s the same argument that English speakers keep saying about Portuguese and Japanese &c., but we speakers seem to be able to do just fine....
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:45 am
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: things that have surprised me when learning TP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18519
things that have surprised me when learning TP
I don’t have a place to post this so might as well do it here. • No green I find it strange that a language so focused on nature doesn’t have a word for “green” as primary. I mean, plants and all. As people who are into color theory will know, what color is “primary” is determined culturally. Accord...
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:49 am
- Forum: musi
- Topic: twitter haiku thing
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4665
twitter haiku thing
toki, mi wile kepeken e toki pona. mi pali e ni: lipu Tuwite pi toki musi lili http://twitter.com/jan_Leo mi ante e toki musi Aiku tan toki Nijon. toki musi Aiku li pakala e toki Nijon tan ni: ona li lili mute. mi pakala sin e toki pona. o weka e ike jan mi! toki musi Aiku li kepeken e nimi tenp...
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:39 am
- Forum: sitelen toki
- Topic: nasin sitelen ali pi toki pona
- Replies: 45
- Views: 43627
Re: nasin sitelen ali pi toki pona
Wow, that was fast! Sorry for taking too long and changing things after you created the transliterator :) After some experimentation, I’ve updated the original post with more explicit punctuation conventions; but feel free to disregard anything you think doesn’t work. I don’t have more authority abo...