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Could I potentially use li as a form of and? You know, to be semi-poetic about things and to stop using the whole 'I did this, I did that, I do a backflip' thing. Example: I wield my blazing sword and destroy the branches. mi jo e seli palisa utala, li pakala e palisa kasi. I slay three bats and exi...

nimi Skype mi li marie.elliott9009nz

sina toki tawa mi la sina pona tawa mi

mi wile ala pakala. o open e oka sina. o lukin e insa suli. ike li lon ala pini. taso mi wile e ni: sina pona tawa mi. tan tenpo lon e ante la, mi lon ali e poka sina! toki pona li pona. o lon pona. :) some things were a little 'poetic', but oh well, what was not described in form has no means to co...

Well, on making the start of sentences more recognizable, maybe you could just make the whole first word underlined? Maybe even 'la' to show the two 'side' of 'la' better. Like this: mi wile e ni: sina pilin pona. sina pona ala pona? sina pilin pona ala la mi pilin ike. The main problem is that it's...

It could be good, but it might be a bit tiring to be broadcasting all then posts all the time (well for me at least, I'm lazy with that kind of stuff). It sounds like you took inspiration from the game Balderdash. It does sound good though! Although what does the name really mean, 'change the speech...

What is truth? Maybe it' really IS just 'lon' Because truth is what is, and lies are what is not, and that's 'lon ala'. Because lies don't exist. You can say them (toki pi ijo li lon ala) but they're what's not actually THERE. It's there in thought (pilin pi ijo li lon ala) but not in physicality (l...

a, ni li lon la mi pilin pona. tan mi pilin e ni: mi jo e ijo mute. mi wile e ni: jan ale li pilin pona.

Yeah sorry, guess it might be a bit of a bad way to say things like 'thoughts of what doesn't exist' and so on. But yeah, that's the gist of it.

Hi all, so basically I know toki pona but I've never used it in conversation! I have some skype friends that speak it but I can't summon the guts to press the 'call' button because I generally suck at conversation, and have never had a toki pona convo before. I just think that there might be too man...

This is gorgeous! From what I take of it, fire is "consuming" all the air's oxygen, and so the sky dissipates/is not longer there. It feels a lot more poetic though. Toki Pona is better sometimes for things like these - I guess all languages have their quirks!