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- Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:27 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: How would you say "to show"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7069
Re: How would you say "to show"
"i'll show you a picture" - mi pana lukin e sitelen tawa sina "pana lukin" reflects the speaker's need to have one string of words ("pana lukin") for one vocabulary item ("show"). It does stretch "lukin" as a modifier though, as "showing" ...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:18 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: How would you say "to show"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7069
Re: How would you say "to show"
Should "to show" be kama e lukin (cause to see) or ken e lukin (allow to see) or is there really a difference? In other words should " I'll show you a picture" be "mi kama e ni:sina li lukin e sitelen" or "mi ken e ni: sina lukin e sitelen". "kama e luki...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:05 pm
- Forum: sona pona
- Topic: A question to Buddhists
- Replies: 10
- Views: 30498
Re: A question to Buddhists
why not "weka" for empty or emptiness? for form "selo" is a good translation or maybe "sijelo"(body/form)? I wouldn't recognize "lupa" as empty if it saw it written, I would think an opening of some kind but I understand what they're getting at. "weka&qu...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:00 pm
- Forum: sona pona
- Topic: mani anpa li pona
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9436
Re: mani anpa li pona
----- toki ----- mi wile toki e ni: mani anpa li seme li pona tan seme. toki, jan Lane o. I was stopping at the first line wondering what "lower money" is, but you're probably talking about UBI, right? Probably "noka" (noka NOUN foot, leg, organ of locomotion; bottom, lower part...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:55 am
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: toki pona mi li pona ala pona?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5852
Re: toki pona mi li pona ala pona?
toki! sina lukin ala la nimi mi li jan Menen. mi kama tan ma Mewika. ni li pona tawa mi: mi li lon. mi jan pi toki sin pi toki pona. mi toki pona ala pona? ni li pona tawa mi: sina lukin e toki ike mi. mi tawa! toki, jan Menen o. kama pona tawa kulupu pi toki pona! mi jan pi ma Tosi. mi lon ma tomo...
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: sin pi toki pona
- Topic: Input on this translation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17458
Re: Input on this translation
That's how I say it.jan Seloki wrote:what about 'jan pali pi nasin lawa'?janKipo wrote:‘Jan pi nasi lawa’ is also used for police.
- Sun May 12, 2019 8:54 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Planet Earth
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5981
Re: Planet Earth
toki, jan Kiwi o! When trying to express yourself in a new language, it's rarely a good idea to rely on another language, like in this case "Elutu" for "Earth", because you assume that everybody understands that other language (in this case, English), which raises the question w...
- Sun May 12, 2019 7:10 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Planet Earth
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5981
Re: Planet Earth
toki, jan Kiwi o! When trying to express yourself in a new language, it's rarely a good idea to rely on another language, like in this case "Elutu" for "Earth", because you assume that everybody understands that other language (in this case, English), which raises the question wh...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 2:19 pm
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: tenpo sike suno pini mute la...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9076
Re: tenpo sike suno pini mute la...
tenpo sike suno pini mute la, mi sitelen e toki pi toki pona; en ona li pona tawa mi. tenpo suno pini mute la, mi kama sona e toki ni: toki pi pona mute! tenpo suno no la, mi toki tawa sina. toki. mi tan ma Nosiki. tenpo ni la sina sona! toki, jan Lika o! kama pona! mi kama sona e toki pona lon sik...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:02 pm
- Forum: ante toki
- Topic: Proposed revision to Chinese character set
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12017
Re: Proposed revision to Chinese character set
I'd suggest 表.enervation wrote:Good catch, just edited! I can't think of any good translations for supa, so I guess it's fine to stick with 张.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A1%A8
Sounds more like "table" and "surface" to me.
I have a preference for classic Chinese characters, BTW.