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mi wile sona e ni: sina pilin tawa ali. jan mute li lukin tawa sona. ken la ali li tan ali. ken la ali li tan ala. ken la ali li tan ijo lon. ken la lon li lon ala. taso lon li lon. ken la ali li tan pona. ken la ali li tan ike. ken la pona en iki li lon ala. seme li lon? ali li tan seme? mi sona al...

jan Silupu o, pona! (jansílupuo, pon!) I did not even think of multiple pi s, but yes, the idea remains that the gap/stress should still accommodate for pi. As for 'pi' being confusing with three terms: I've always seen it like a distributive property: a b c d e = (((ab)c)d)e a b pi c d e = (ab)((cd...

pi-chains disambiguate some things that aren't clear with just chains of words. If anything, tp is in need of more variations of "pi" to disambiguate more relationships. For example, most prep phrases could be pi phrases or "unmarked word chains", but there is no point because i...

jan ali o, toki! Or rather: janliko tok! I have been working on an abbreviated toki pona or tokpon tenlil ("quick toki pona"). The idea is that it still rings true to toki pona syntax; along with that comes the simplicity and elegance of toki pona. However, three-syllable words in toki po...

jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike. jan Kipo, thanks! If I don't use the *many times*, my toki pona speech is bad. I think you want to move tenpo mute to a la phrase, not a direct object phrase. "using much time" is OK English, I'm not sure about ...

jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike.

taso mun jelo la mi sona e toki Esewanto. Mi nun povas paroli gxin bonege. Nu, tion cxi mi pensas.

jan Mato o, kulupu pi toki sin la seme li kama? ona mute li pali e seme?

o lukin!

mi pilin ike tan ni: tenpo mute la mi toki ala jan pi toki pona. 'tenpo mute' li sike suno.

tenpo ni la mi kama e tomo. sike suno ni la mi lukin ala e seme?

lipu ni li pini.

Kuti wrote:Estas bone

Tre dankon.

mi pali e lipu sin* tokipona.webs.com. mi wile ala e ni: mi lukin e lipu sin mute. tenpo kama la lipu sin ni li jo e ala. mi pini ala e lipu sin ni. lipu sona li pini ala. kulupu pi kulupu nimi li pini ala. tenpo kama la mi pali sin e lipu sin ni. taso sina pilin seme? pakala seme li lon? lipu sin n...

I would have supposed that tp, if it got affixed, would put the adjectival ones as suffixes (so pilpono, ponika) and thenominalizing ones as prefixes, following the habits for word combinations. But I don't know if that is the way things usually go in languages. That actually sounds better. I was t...