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mi jo e soweli lili lon tomo anpa pi tomo mi. mi lukin e ko jaki tan soweli lili. mi weka e ko jaki. soweli lili li jo e pipi lili ike. pipi lili ike li ken pakala e sijelo jan. mi kama jo e moku ike. moku ike li moli e soweli lili. pona mute. taso nasin ni li ike. tan li ni: soweli li moli la kon ...

sina toki e ijo pona sopping is an essential part of american life cycle: ona li lape ona li lawa e tomo tawa ken la ona li pali ona li lawa e tomo tawa ona li kama jo e ijo mute lon tomo pana ijo / ona li tawa Esun ona li lawa e tomo tawa ona li lape mi pilin e ni: nimi Esun li lon ala la toki li i...

tenpo mun tu la kon ike li lon this raises a good question i cannot really answer at the moment. to me this phrase means: at 2 months there was a bad smell. not for 2 months, although this interpretation is possible. may be one could say: kon ike li lon tawa tenpo mun tu , because tawa has a meanin...

I'm not sure. 20 is one of universal numbers for humans, the number of 'fingers' (in many languages there are no separate words for fingers and toes. You can name them all using one word). Then 100 is 5x20 (a hand times fingers). yes, the numer of fingers is the source of oru decimal system. 20 is ...

Dates are, of course, just addresses in time interesting idea The internet age problem is more acute -- How can I tell a 13-year-old that I am 16 and get her to meet me in the dark? We don't even have good triage(or quartage or ...) terms: infant, prepub. tweener, teen, legal, adult, middle aged, g...

So, why use base-3 system when base-10 is better in these terms? And base-60, sexigesimal, ancient Babylonian system is even much better? ;) because we dont want to have some special words for 3 ... 9. wa have already special words for wan and tu . so i suggest to make a maximal use of this. to me ...

so I have no problem with saying nanpa Inli "sixty four" or writing nanpa "64 " just witghout "nanpa", because "nanpa" is ordinal, ijo nanpa 64 means the 64th object, not 64 object s . this is actually the way people do in internet. as tokipona is not used as...

True. But it's more complicated than the old system with "tu-wan, tu-tu, tu-tu-wan" and more complicated than the new "Advanced system" with 5, 20, 100. So it's more ike, isn't it? then positional system with arabic numerals is more complicated than roman numeral system. i canno...