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Yay! Thanks for the input! tenpo pini la, jan pona tu li lon. If this was "once upon a time" in the original, you might want to consider "tenpo ijo la". I saw it in a Memrise course . Good to know! It was "long ago," but I was wondering about that. :) ona li jan Kasa su...

Thanks for the replies! I posted a new thread with my translation here:

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2378

(I haven't checked out the Parser yet--time to take a look!)

toki! :) As a way of practicing, I decided to translate a funny old book from my kids' shelf. I'm pretty new to this and I'm sure there are ambiguities, errors, and weird turns of phrase -- so if anyone wants to try reading it and tell me what could be improved, that would be wonderful! I've divided...

toki! mi jan sona sin pi toki pona, li musi kin. Is there a more standard way of saying "I translated a book" than what I just made up there? Because I translated a children's book (lipu mute sona pi jan lili) into Toki Pona over the last week or so. It was just for practice, so I'm very i...