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Hello! I recently finished learning Toki Pona. jan ale o, toki! nimi mi li Pinsen. mi kama tan ma Netelan. mi pakala e toki kepeken toki pona la sina mute o toki e ni tawa mi :) Hello everyone! My name is Vincent. I'm from the Netherlands. Please tell me if I make any mistakes in my Toki Pona :) mi...

I would like to know a few things! toki! Hello! mi sona ala e ijo pi mute lili. pana lukin la: I don't understand a few things. For example: - seme li kalama toki pi ni: ijo ala ijo? mi pilin e ni: tenpo mute la, nimi "ala" li lon monsi nimi pi lon ala. tan ni la, mi pilin e ni: kalama to...

mi wile sona e ni tawa nimi "pi". jan Kipo o, pona!
I wanted to know this about "pi". Thank you, jan Kipo!

pona, jan Kipo o! mi lukin e lipu ni . ni li pana e nimi "Pinsen" tawa mi. lon ante la, mi lukin e nimi mute ni: "lon tenpo lili pini". taso, tenpo ni la mi toki pini e "tenpo pi pini lili". tenpo ni la, mi sona e ijo ante ni: sina toki e ona. tenpo kama la, mi wile sit...

I did not come up with "pana lukin la" myself; I found it in one of the Memrise courses I used to learn the vocabulary and some stock phrases. pilin ni li pona tawa mi. kepeken nasin ni la, nimi "ala" li lon x pi nanpa wan li lon x pi nanpa tu. mi lukin toki e nimi tu wan ni sama...

Right :) I went with "Winsen" at first, but then I switched when I found that site, but someone else still called me "jan Winsen". I have no strong feelings about it either way, so long as it obeys the rules of which syllables are allowed in the language I guess (which is the cas...

mi sona e ni tawa nimi "ti" en nimi "ji" en nimi "wo" en nimi "wu". taso mi sona ala e ni tawa nimi "wi". ona li toki ala e nimi ni lon .

pona, janAetherStar!

Ah, right, thanks—I was unsure about that one, because I saw it used with "pi" on the website I linked earlier , and without on the Memrise courses I mentioned earlier. I thought perhaps without "pi", "ijo nanpa tu" would be something like "two number-things" ...

Interesting about the "jan sama ni" phrase—I thought "sama" worked the way I saw it there, but either I read wrongly before or some other people were just using it wrongly themselves, then. It makes sense, though; if it worked without "pi" like I used it, that would hav...

I see your point. Personally, I would be fine either way; as I said, I tend to like the conventional civilities, but I also kind of like the implicit/genuine regard for others that you described, or as you also put it, assumed mutual appreciation. I guess we'll all just have our own input in it and ...