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toki! mi jan Marcus. toki ante li pona tawa mi. mi pana toki tan ConlangList en Conculture. toki pona li pona tawa mi. taso mi kin kama sona e ona. mi tan tomo suli San Francisco. suno li seli la mi tawa telo Tahoe. telo li pona. telo li laso.

Ok. 2nd try: toki! mi jan Marcus. toki ante li pona tawa mi. mi pali e toki nasa mute lili. mi jan toki lon sona “Conlang” en sona “Conculture”. toki pona li pona tawa mi. kin la mi kama sona e ona. mi tan ma tomo “San Francisco”. suno li seli la mi tawa telo "Tahoe". telo ni li suli. telo...

mi sona e ni! tempo ni la mi pali e toki mute lili. tempo suna la mi tawa tomo "Lexington". mi mute toki wan e toki Latin. mi ken ala toki e toki ante. tempo lili la mi lon ala tomo toki ni. I am confused. How can nobody know what "pu" means? Perhaps you could explain how Toki Po...

The content of the word list is totally in the hands of Sonja, the creator. She has released a revised list of words but some of them are only vaguely explained or not at all yet. We make do for now and speculate about what will happen later, 'tomo' is any structure; a city is something like 'ma tom...

Semper aliquid corrigendum! mi pini ante e toki mute mi. mi sona e ni: tenpo ni la mi pali e toki mute lili. tenpo suno kama la mi tawa ma tomo Lesiton. mil mute li toki wan kepeken toki Lasina. mi ken ala toki kepeken toki ante. tempo esun la mi ken ala toki e toki ante. mi ken toki kepeken toki La...

Semper aliquid corrigendum! vere vere semper itaque. mi pini ante e toki mute mi. mi sona e ni: tenpo ni la mi pali e toki mute lili. tenpo suno kama la mi tawa ma tomo Lesiton. mil mute li toki wan kepeken toki Lasina. mi ken ala toki kepeken toki ante. tempo esun la mi ken ala toki e toki ante. m...

"I just changed [presumably corrected] my message" (literally "finished changing") "I know that now I make few messages' ("don't write much"?). Tomorrow I go to Lexington. We (will) talk together using Latin. I cannot talk in another language. For a week, ['kama' ...

interesting observation about "ijo"-- of the various words, that a likely word for grammaticalizations-- it is already semantically bleached and kind-of works as an inanimate indefinite pronoun. I wonder what this things (pi, ijo) would be called -- post-verb topic markers? Adverbials? At...

Wouldn't Detroit reduce to 'ma tomo Teto' or 'Tero'?

Perhaps the problem here is that "disgrace" is a negative term generating from the attitude of others, and as such does not fit the self-generating moral compass more typical of TP? Which makes TP sound a bit Nietzschean, oddly enough. How have the concepts of "honor" and "d...