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jan pali pi ilo nasa ni o. ken la sina sitelen e toki pi kulupu ni la jan li lukin e ona.

o kama pona tawa ma mi pi musi Ko. o kama sona pona. tenpo suno weka ala la kulupu mi li jo e pali esun pi mani weka. sina ken kama jo e ilo musi pi musi Ko kepeken mani lili lon esun ni.

i has me my doubts. Aside from Solresol and its kin, whistled languages tend to be for a relatively small set of fixed messages, fewer even than the word base of tp. but then, i am tone-deaf, so a whistle wouldn't convey much. tp sign language, on the other hand,... Hm.. Well the sign language does...

I've just realized while compiling a dictionary of all of the toki pona words just how off the official 125 word count is. Counting the 11 archaic words, the two newest, and the suggested wiki, jalan, and ipi, there's now technically 142 words in this "small" language's total vocabulary. I...

I kinda lost track of the conversation about page two a a a, but since I write and translate tp a lot, I've run into several concepts that seem not to want to break down into it. Oddly for a Taoist conlang, the hardest has been tao. Is it pu (which, as the only undefined in my dictionary is starting...

jan Majeko o! toki! I've been trying to record every script adapted and made for tp for a while. This seems like a good addition, but I can't seem to make the font work on this pc (Hate Puppy Linux lol). Could you upload just like a picture of it?

Heh. Oh. ..I really need to get around to learning how to put fonts on here. a a a. Had to use Ubuntu to see which version of the runes you were using.. Think that's what I'll do this time too.

To get away with that, you'd need a kepeken phrase. mi unpa e pan kepeken ilo kipisi. I plunged the knife into the bread. Well, really, "I f*ked the bread with a knife", and it sounds just as jarring in the tp as it does in the English. Hm.. So what would a.. less disturbing wording be? A...

Or does toki pona seem to be pretty much abandoned?

mi sona ala e sina. sina pana ala tawa kulupu ni. taso mi lukin e ni: tenpo ni la sina jo e sike tenpo sin. o jo e tenpo pi sike tenpo sin pona.

jan Mato o. mi sona ala e ona kin. taso tenpo suno pini la nimi ona li lon.. lipu lawa kulupu.

jan Kipo o. pona! mi sona ala e nasin toki. I just kind of guessed.