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But his real mother was goddess Ninsun, so I think I should skip the issue. But then I need to find some other way to say/suggest he's not only a mighty one but a half-god, I suppose. just say simply, he was a son of meli sewi Ninsun and jan lawa Lugalbanda ona li toki tawa jan mama Alulu e ni: mam...

   jan sama jan Kikamesi = (jan sama jan) Kikamesi   human-like person [named] Gilgamesh if sama is a prep (like, as, seem), then it breaks this order. if it is mod (same, similar, equal, of equal status or position), then you need pi. depends on what do you mean. but to me without pi is a better w...

OL KOREKT now a special proposal of quasi-logo-graphics which will preserve a phonetic structure of toki pona. i suggest to use a 2-letter codes for toki pona words, like country codes or airline codes: nn st ni i po mt - nasin sitelen ni li pona mute. the separators and interjection "a" a...

But there is no "e ni:..." in the first sentence -- "Gilgamesh had a dream. He woke up and went to his mother." Then he said: "mama o! tenpo pimeja la mi lukin e sitelen lape". (here "lukin e ni" can be used, thanks). And what with a dream itself? e.g. "...

a2) jan Kikamesi li lape li lukin -- Gilgamesh was sleeping and looking/seeing. i like this because in this construction the reader would imply the casuative relationship betwen lape and lukin. it is easy to get the meaning because the both are predicates. "lukin lape" is also good as a c...

RU: ja videl son PL: widziałem sen EN: I have seen a dream in polish and russian "sleeping" and "dream" is the same word. using this calque in tp, mi lukin e lape . but i am not sure if our english-speaking colleagues will accept this calque. if you want to distinguish between s...

This sort of thing will be more and more a problem as speakers of more -- and more different -- languages come in: a phrase that makes perfect sense from one language's point of view is totally opaque from another's. o yes. e.g., "american dream". it is normally translated as "amerik...

Having 123 word only, toki pona provides a unique possibility to attribute a two letter code to every word and use it for the writing. Here I propose such a code for tp words and appreciate all your criticism and suggestions. Also, I invite everybody to try this code just as an experiment, because n...

o kama! jan pali o kama! o kama tawa utala! mi pilin sama nena seli tan ni: jan mani li lon ma. mi o utala e nasin mani o sin e jan, o sin e ma. jan pali kin li kama suli. ona li jo e pan e ma. utala ni li pini la jan ale li lon ma Intenasijonale li jo e ma e kon. o awen ala pona sewi. o awen ala po...