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mi wile toki e nimi Inli "live orchestra". ken la "kalama musi wawa ..." mi wile lukin e sitelen tawa pi kalama ala kepeken nasin pi tenpo ona. The 1920s experience.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that while verbs may take (a) complement(s), prepositions must take one? After thinking long and hard about it I've come to realize that PPs and (object) NPs are not as parallel as I initially thought; at the sentence-level PPs are verb modifiers while NPs ...

Could you give an example of a preposition taking a modifier? Are they actually functioning as prepositions, and not verbs or nouns? How would you say e.g. "I walked home quickly"? "mi tawa pi tenpo lili tomo" doesn't work, neither does "mi tawa tomo pi tenpo lili". May...

pona. taso kulupu nimi pini tu li pona lili tawa mi.

musi li kepeken e nasin "-.-.-.-." "A mi LApe E jan LIli."

taso: "JAN liLI li LApe POna. MAma LI luKIN e Ona." "liLI" en "luKIN" li ike.

sitelen pi nanpa wan li pona mute tawa mi.

ike la, mi lukin ala e sitelen tawa "X-Files".

For prep with modifier, how about mi tawa noka, "I walk" or even mi tawa noka tomo, "I walk home". Now, tawa is functioning as a verb there but is still a preposition, since it takes a complement, not a direct object. In 'tawa noka', 'tawa' is a verb. I'd read "mi tawa noka...

mi sitelen e toki "moku lipu suwi" pi tan jan Apensen en jan Mu kepeken toki pona. toki ni li tan tenpo pini. jan ala li jo e ona. tan ni la, jan ali li ken kepeken e ona. nimi soweli li ken ike: 'waso meli/mije' (chicken/rooster), 'waso kala (/telo?)' (duck), 'waso Kanata meli/mije' (goos...

e ni, mi pilin: kepeken nasin ni, jan Jota li toki.

"wawa, sina kama. e poka pimeja, mi pilin, pi lon insa sina." (“Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”)

As long as you keep the comma, I think it'll work. It's not like Yoda-talk is grammatical in English either.

@janSilipu: What would be good a term for 'goose'? 'waso nasa' seems like too much of an anglicism to me. In other languages chickens are the birds associated with silly behavior. The best I could come with was "Canadian bird", although I doubt the birds in the story are actually Canadian ...

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nasin sitelen "Toki Pona hieroglyphs" li nasin pi sitelen sitelen pi tan jan JonathanGabel (nimi ona pi toki pona li seme?) anu nasin ante?