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Presumably, if 'wile' comes from someone's desire, 'ken' comes from someone's permission or indifference. I think calling this intuitions/constructivism is stretching matters a bit.

Btw, I thought that specific names of plants and animals were explicitly not to be tped. But the boundaries are getting thin, perhaps to the "anything goes" level. soweli Peli Tometika, anyone?

There is much to be said for the ancient system "Gaius Tullius Cicero to Gaius Julius Caesar , Greetings". . In tp that comes out as something like 'Jan Silipu li pana e ni tawa Jan Mato. Toki'. Paul and others tended to elaborate on both names and on the greeting, but the basic pattern re...

I don't understand the second example, which seems to say "Who knows that a man dances" '(reading 'seme' for 'semi'). I suppose we have to put the "how to" in somewhere: 'mije seme li sona e nasin ni: ona li tawa musi' or the like. The third is obscure. I guess that my having mon...

Oh, you may not think I'm pretty, ah! maybe you feel this: I do not look good. a! ken la sina pilin ni: mi lukin ala pona. . ken la sina pilin E ni: mi pona lukin ala But don't judge on what you see, but o feel not on this: you see this. taso o pilin ala lon ni: sina lukin e ni. . o [judge] ala tan...

Happy uudz kale katunob! Not that it matters, but kasi is not an animal though mani is. And what makes the list given be elements when kiwen is not? I gather the critters click every year and the elements every seven. There are any number of tricks to get this more function ( the distant date proble...

I guess a planet is strictly a mun, but it is not clear how much we can rely on this apparently interplanetary message. For example, would not a speaking species on any planet claim that they are jan, persons? Even if we thought of them as akesi?

If I had a nickel forever final version of a conlang, I would be wealthy indeed. At best the book will catch up to the state a little before the book was published. Then it will go on in its own way. The final version is always paleoglottology and, if that report of a dead language catches on, the l...

The official line backs 'sin'.