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nimi alasa li to hunt. nimi namako li season, something extra, accessory, excite, stimulate nimi kipisi li find, found (?) mama kipisi pi - co-founder of (?) Not sure about kipisi but alasa is a useless word, we have "kama jo " mi alasa e waso. mi kama jo e waso. Sonja, can you explain why...

The word "alasa" is definitely not minimalistic. It can't be broken down to "lukin jo e" or "kama jo e", why such a useless word? And what is "pu"?

How many more words must Sonja add? The vocabulary is getting larger and larger. Toki Pona is a positive language but there is a word for death but no word for life? A word for lost/absent and now a word for monster? Toki Pona is a very lovely language but it will make it harder for new beginners to...

According to this ; Toki Pona is ...is the auxiliary language of international contact Which is probably why Jan Sonja is adding more word (hopefully not to many). If this is the case, I support it (of course under the conditions that it keeps it's minimalism to some extent)! Now that I look at it, ...

sitelen tawa pi monsuta(?) - Horror movie(?) jan Ape o nimi sina li pona tawa mi. I'm just posting this mostly to provoke a response from jan Kipo. Heh heh. sitelen tawa monusta . monsuta modifies picture. The salient qualities of the picture is that it is moving and it is monstrous. cf sitelen taw...

This is the only confusing word to me. "Sina pu" means "you have the official toki pona book?"

How do you express these words:

free, perfect, magical, unique, forget, remember, celebrate

I'm trying to translate a song called "Anima Libera" into Toki Pona. Anima Libera means "the free spirit". Here is the Translation from Italian to English, now I just need it translated from English to Toki Pona. Anima libera,ti senti candida, Free soul, you feel (open?) flawless...

What do you all think of my translation which is the post above?

I'm waiting for text. mala (Lord's Prayer): tama li na li pu tamalu li mu tamala li mu li tamalu li nilu kuliti pulini nili pu litu nini mu li ni li pu tamalu li ku li pi li pu li mamu li numamu nilipu If you want me to translate more please just put the text here. It's so fun to use this language