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Sorry you have suchlow expectations for aa tp Glospe site. The samples from other languages look like it is ideal for catching nuance and context, which play a central role in tp. Admittedly, taking advantage of this possibility calls for more work than just typing in a couple of sentences, but the ...

Thanks.
I don’t know what conclusions to draw from this -- except that vowels just aren’t going to be venly distributed however we do it (though I’m not sure why that should matter at all).

No. ‘li’ is merely a marker of the boundary between subject and predicate and has no content, so can’t be joined in this way. Further, a second ‘li’ could only appear after a predicate occurred (Well, ‘ala’ is a possible predicate, but not intended as one here. The short version of the rule about ‘a...

The standard way to make a comparison in tp, "A is more x than B”, is with the two-sentence unit ‘A li x mute; B li x lili’. This approach fits nicely with certain aspects of tp: nothing like conjugations or declension, keep all setneces simple, and so on. But it is not pleasant for people from...

Yes, ‘ken/kin’ has always stood in the way of three-vowel solutions -- pretty much all of them, since most seem to put /e/ and /i/ in the same group. The high-mid-low pattern doesn’t collapse /e/ and /i/, but it runs into ‘ken/kon’, as does the i-u-other pattern. ‘kin’ is mainly an artifical word so...

This looks like a valuable aid eventually. right now it has a lot of problems. A quick glance shows several bad definitions right away, enough to worry about the whole. For basic starters, the correct version of “a” is nothing; ‘wan’ would only be used to contrast with some other number or with ‘ant...

Sorry I missed the ‘pi tomo’ (wrong as Lope says). ‘anu’ sems exempt from all the restrictions there are on ‘en’. I don’t know why; all the practical reasons seem to apply to ‘anu’ as well (I tend to ignore the restrictions on ‘en’ except the one between sentences, but even that gets an occasional n...

Lope’s grammar is rather stringent and occasionally a little odd. You might be advised to look at Pije’s and, fo course, the “official” book by Sonja Lang. Reading a lot from the corpus and the Facebook and Discord sites also helps.

Always a pleasant surprise to find myself agreeing with most of Lope’s remarks. Just a few modifications from community usage as opposed to Lope’s rather stringent requirements. ‘pi’ sets off any multi-word odifier, not just those composed o a noun+adjective (in partiular, prepositional phrases get ...

And also ‘ma anpa li kama kiwen lete’ and so on, so it isn’t a Y/N question form (but neither are the others, really). ‘taso’ is not followed by ‘la’ but stands alone as a conjunction, like ‘anu’ (but ‘anu’ doesn’t need a period, in spite of some usage) ‘anu seme’ comes at the very end of a sentence...