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meli mi li pana sona pi tawa musi lon tenpo lete my wife teaches dancing in winter meli mi li pana sona pi tawa musi lon telo kiwen my wife teaches dancing on ice many thanks to jan Kipo, now i see my mistake. it should be: meli mi li pana e sona pi tawa musi to me, it is not a good idea to use pan...

Does "ni li lon la..." mean "this exists", "this is happen ing ..."? I find it rather difficult. Is it in any way different form "tenpo ni la..."? no. ni li lon la is my introbuctory phrase, not part of the text about bear. i should say it in english: if so, ...

soweli loje pimeja li lukin e kili lili mute. kili li pimeja li pona lukin. soweli li wile moku e ona. taso kili li lon sewi palisa. soweli li tawa sewi wawa tan ni. tenpo mute la ona li tawa sewi wawa. taso ona ken ala kama jo e kili. ona li tawa monsi li toki e ni: "kili ni li suwi ala. ona ...

о всё видавшем.. tomo Enana li tomo pi jan sewi Inana. jan sewi meli . perhaps you should stress here that Inanna was a goddes jan seme li kama pali e ali ni? may be "e ijo ale ni" jan sewi Alulu li pali e sijelo pi jan Kikamesi. whom do you mean? Enlil? jan Kikamesi li kama jo mije. jan K...

Equally obvious, the fact that there are only 123 words (count on 09/10/17) makes it natural for a picto-/ideo-/logo- graphic system, ala Chinese -- perhaps with a syllabic or alphabetic side system to cover the unofficial proper adjectives. that is japanese kanji and kana. i remember you were crit...

Enlil's sister(?), Aruru, also known as Ninhursag. http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/026/1d.gif http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/021/91.gif Aruru http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/021/b4.gif http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/...

(I won't even go into the horror that the suggestion of monosyllabic versions of tp fill me with -- ... Plus, of course, it wouldn't be tp then at all.) this is a strong argument in favour of logographics. you can speak traditional toki pona, i can speak monosyllabic dialect and we can communicate ...

I don't think a monosyllabic "dialect" is a good reason to used kanji etc. http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/015/14.gif http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/027/0e.gif http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/021/f2.gif http://www.theiling...

I don't think a monosyllabic "dialect" is a good reason to used kanji etc. http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/015/14.gif http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/027/0e.gif http://www.theiling.de/schrift/00/char3/glyphs/tp/030/021/f2.gif http://www.theiling...