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tenpo ni la jan lili ali li tawa kepeken ilo tawa ante: ilo tawa pi sike lili pi noka, ilo tawa pi sike tu, ilo tawa pi nimi ala kin... mi li jan suli. mi kama kepeken e ilo tawa pi sike wan. tenpo pini lili la mi ken ala lon sewi ilo ni. tenpo ni la mi ken tawa lili. mi wile ken tawa pona kepeken i...

janKipo wrote:

janKalepa wrote: {? monsi pi akesi linja? "snake's butt"?}

Dragon's tail, actually. mi kama sona e ni: nimi pona li nimi "monsi linja akesi"

"sitelem mute nimi mute" li pakala sama. "nimi mute pi sitelen mute" li pona.

sona pi tenpo kama pi sitelen kiwen sina li kama sona e sona kiwen la sina o kama sona e sitelen mute. sitelen wan pi sona kiwen li jo e linja mute. linja wan li lon sewi linja wan ante. linja wan pi sitelen sona kiwen li ken jo e ni: sike lili wan anu sike lili tu. linja pi sike wan li linja meje....

tan lawa pi ijo ali?

pona mute tawa mi:tan pi ijo ali

Or, work via context:

toki pi tan lawa mute

ali li jo e tan lawa mute. ona mute li seli li telo li ma li kon. ijo ali li kama lon kepeken tan mute ni.

janKipo wrote:Sonja used 'sitelen' or, more fully, 'sitelen kalama'.

ni li pona tawa mi. "wan nimi" li pona ala (tawa mi kin). nimi "wan nimi' li pana e pilin ni: nimi pi nimi ante mute.

janKipo wrote:...

thank you. I've edited th post.

meli en meje li lon. ona li jo e waso pi nimi Lapa. tenpo wan la waso Lapa li pana e sike waso pi kiwen mani* . meli li wile pakala e selo sike la ona ken ala pali e ni. meje li wile pakala e selo sike la ona kin ken ala pakala. soweli lili li kama li tawa e linja monsi ona li tawa e sike kepeken li...

This letters names are good. But how to say "letter" in tp?

nimi

'tan nimi' maybe?

Kuti wrote:http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Alphabet

tooo elaborate.... i'd prefer somethind deadly simple...

Is there (or, maybe it's a good proposal for future) a names for letters? It may be useful. We can't, for example, call tokipona ABS - Aei, because it's not a word. We also can't read (having no names for letters) a text: ona li sitelen e nimi 'B'. "nimi bi", like in English, or "nimi...