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Well, Raven's is different from the Orff Carmina Burana but maybe also from the Benedictbueren mss. My medieval Latin is worse than my classical (which is more than fifty years out of practice) so I can't comment on the trat (and can't make out a few of the words at all -- after my time, as they say...

Well, the official situation is really that most words can be used in most contexts (condition, noun, modifier, verb - t and i, preposition, exclamation, whatever) but that some have not been developed in some ways and others do not seem to have obvious uses so far. The only clear exceptions are la,...

"The pattern "sina o [verb]!" for imperative is well attested in the archives." So is "ain't" in English. The 'sina' is unneeded and converts the whole into a weaker, hortative, construction "Oh would that you ..." which comes to pretty much the same thing, of...

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I'm not quite clear what the bold-face means; most of the words there are clearly content words (so maybe what I don't understand is what your content/function distinction is). So, by cases. I would think that 'a' was pretty much a contentless word; it is just an exclamation, without any meaning, th...

sitelen ni li moku akesi ike pi poki awen. sitelen ni li ike. sitelen ni li sitelen pi mute kama li kepeken ala li esun wile ala. mi wile e ni: sitelen li moli li kama ala. I get the emotion, but miss some of the lines (delightful looking as they are). "This writing is bad toad food of the con...

lon! len nuka unpa = fuck-me-now pumps.

"Established" means "used several times by people who use tp well generally" Also used for "likewise" and similarly." I agree that meaningfully it is not quite right, but grammatically it is OK. I'm not sure just what was intended, but I am inclined to think that '...

Rules. selo musi. 1) I give you six series of toki pona names. mi pana sina e kulupu nimi. mi pana e kulupu nimi tawa sina 2) You can put as many "pi"s between them as you want. sina ken pana ona e nimi Pi mute tan wile sina. sina ken pana e nimi 'Pi' mute tawa ona ...' "as many as&q...

The Hittite King Hattusili I's Last Words. 1. "Hashtayar" li meli "Labarna". Jan Lawa Suli "Labarna" li toki e jan "Hashtayar" e ni: meli o sina weka ala e mi. sina o, mi lawa sina. All these proper adjectives need nouns to modify, so 'jan Hashtayar [Asitaja]...