Toki Pona Forums

As I said, I see the meaning of anpa/sewi, but I don't think most people would see using open/pini as a big deal. If you see tp as the kind of language a primitive culture would use (which I do. because in a lot of ways that's exactly what it resembles) they wouldn't necessarily have any concept of ...

Bearing in mind that I'm new to this... Trying to think about this with as little cultural pollution as possible, it seems to me that East/West ought to explicitly reference 'suno'. 'open/pini suno' and 'sewi/anpa suno' equally make sense to me. Approaching north/south and left/right from the pseud...

In fact, “the sun rises” and “the sun sets” are. pretty universals, since they are apparent to sight in almost all environments. to us they are obvious, yes. from the point of view of a primitive culture, like I said, viewing the sun as something that was being reborn every day (beginning & end...

Here's something weird I just found:

tenpo pimeja lete la mi wan taso tawa nasin ni. No one travels Along this way but I, This autumn evening. ___________________ telo sewi la soweli li wile e len seli selo.* First winter rain- even the monkey seems to want a raincoat. *I'm not sure how it would sound to others, but it was supposed to...