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by janKipo
Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:46 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: mani anpa li pona
Replies: 6
Views: 9334

Re: mani anpa li pona

Well, yes,, this is a problem but mainly an English one, not a tp one. In tp, ‘kin’ is used to emphasize words and what they are emphasized for depends on context. So, the stress may be on similarity “Mali tli tawa; Paki’ ‘mi kin’. “Mary is going to Paris” “Me, too”. Or it may be for contrast ‘Mali ...
by janKipo
Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:00 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!
Replies: 3
Views: 6475

Re: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!

I confess I cannot stand to read very many sntences of Gibran at a sitting, so this mya be badly split up, dependon on how well it goes as tp. ‘wawa ona li kama tan poki suli pi ali kon. wawa ni li ali mute li wawa mute tan ni. taso ona li selo e wawa ni kepeken toki pona ona.’ (No KG,so bearable fo...
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:20 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
Replies: 8
Views: 9662

Re: toki! mi jan Kaja

Sorry, I came in late on this and missed the beginning. so, Kaja o, kama pona. sina sitelen pona kepeken toki pona. taso o lukin e ni: jan li toki e ni: toki kepeken tok Inli (e ante). jan li toki ala e ni: toki e toki Ini (en ante). ante la pona. tawa Lopata: ‘sama sina la’ (‘sama’ is a preposition...
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:22 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Replies: 11
Views: 23870

Re: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Noted. messing with this does that so long as you continue to be guided by tp rules, which just don’t work ever.
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:35 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: A question to Buddhists
Replies: 10
Views: 29940

Re: A question to Buddhists

No clear that you can fuse imperatives, i.e., that ‘o kama jo e ijo ala li lon e (insa pi) lawa sina’ is grammatical. In adition, ‘lon’ is a prepsoition, so doesn’t take ‘e’. maybe just ‘o jo e ijo ala lon insa pi lawa sina’ “Empty your mind” (roughly, a ‘kama’ would probably help) Not sure what ‘lo...
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:42 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!
Replies: 3
Views: 6475

Re: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!

btw “Kalili’ is not a legitimate tp word, either ‘Kali’ or ‘Kalilii’ (or some other vowel).
by janKipo
Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:38 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
Replies: 8
Views: 9662

Re: toki! mi jan Kaja

tp is a bit murky, so every detail possible needs to be givne. Thus, every sentence needs a agent subject, even if its on “somebody”. It is easy to reproduce passive ine tp , just use the corresponding actives (this get a bit messy with modifiers, but its’s good practice).
by janKipo
Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:41 am
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: thai script for toki pona
Replies: 2
Views: 12644

Re: thai script for toki pona

Not altogether a promising script for tp.
by janKipo
Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:24 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi ante e toki sitelen pi mi
Replies: 1
Views: 5549

Re: mi ante e toki sitelen pi mi

prob ‘’pini sitelen’ “finish writing’ rather than ‘stelen pini’ “write completely’. more like ‘ni’, the whole event, than ‘ona’ some little part of it prepositional phrases go after direct object (‘e’) so ‘e ijo lili ... tawa toki pona’. the dash hasn’t beeen define for tp cpmpounds so this is just ...
by janKipo
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:31 am
Forum: musi
Topic: A few haiku of Matsuo Basho in Toki Pona
Replies: 8
Views: 19008

Re: A few haiku of Matsuo Basho in Toki Pona

Very nice. Grammatically, only the ‘e’ missing before ‘tenpo' in the first one is a problem, which is going to screw up the whole structure. Otherwise. there is the question of why the worm is copulating with the nut (or whatever is going on). As a spcification of ‘pipi’ worms are usually ‘linja’ (c...