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by janSilipu
Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:55 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: 3 nights into second life
Replies: 28
Views: 23049

Re: 3 nights into second life

? 'en soweli moli'? Otherwise, 'pi' is is incorrect ( needs two- word phrase after), but, making reasonable guesses, it comes out "I strongly animalize (whatever that means) a dead animal"
by janSilipu
Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:37 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! : )
Replies: 7
Views: 5961

Re: toki! : )

'tawa tenpo poka e ni'. The real problem here is the 'e', which is only for direct object, which only come after main verbs, which nothing in this phrase is. Nobody has worked on expressions like "until" or "since" but this looks like the start of a way to go. Whether 'poka' can ...
by janSilipu
Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:14 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: 3 nights into second life
Replies: 28
Views: 23049

Re: 3 nights into second life

Well, it hasn't been used as one yet but it is only a matter of time. And no , you didn't quite say that. The closest match would probably be 'mi soweli wawa li moku e soweli moli.' "I am a strong critter and eat dead critters". You can't do relative clauses directly in tp, but rather have...
by janSilipu
Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:01 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi lon ma Anku.
Replies: 4
Views: 5123

Re: toki! mi lon ma Anku.

Kama pona tawa toki pona. Sina toki pona kepeken toki pona.
Sina toki e ni: sina toki pona kepeken toki Anku.
by janSilipu
Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:11 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: Toki Pona board/card game?
Replies: 11
Views: 20699

Re: Toki Pona board/card game?

Sounds like fun and might be a useful teaching device (not that much is needed for such a simple language). But it is a bit hard to see how a card game,for example, would make use of tp's peculiar features. 120 words -- minus the purely functional ones -- would make about a double deck, so canasta a...
by janSilipu
Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:17 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: tenpo sitelen Tomaniki (Dominick's Calendar)
Replies: 12
Views: 14188

Re: tenpo sitelen Tomaniki (Dominick's Calendar)

Thanks for this summary. I tend to favor the third version, thouh the other two are more obviously systematic and so easier to use.
by janSilipu
Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:12 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: meli olin mi
Replies: 24
Views: 18694

Re: meli olin mi

"keeps", "stop" for 'a wen' seems to be a mistake. She is a librarian with a collection of books and films (probablydvr disks nowadays). I'm not sure about 'Lon poka tomo mute mi', though. I think that target is "very close to my house" and I am not sure how to say that...
by janSilipu
Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:29 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: Toki Pona board/card game?
Replies: 11
Views: 20699

Re: Toki Pona board/card game?

Did you mean, in your tp, that bigger groups have more good ideas (what you say) or that they have better ideas ('pi pona...)? Both are probably true and are related, but the English leaves the question open.
by janSilipu
Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:39 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi sin li toki pona
Replies: 6
Views: 4892

Re: mi sin li toki pona

Or "the new me talks well" 'Jo ali' could mean "possesses totally" or some such, but that makes little sense without an object. If you want "everyone is the same." maybe .'Jan Ali li sama"'. If you want "Everything is one" then 'Ali li wan' But I suspect ...
by janSilipu
Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:59 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: meli olin mi
Replies: 24
Views: 18694

Re: meli olin mi

No 'en' I think the compound preposition are nt yet torn free of there copoundedness, so 'Lon poka pi tomo mute mi' 'ma pi tomo mute' not " many cities" but "a place of many buildings" 'ma ni li poka sama' ? This place is near itself? ahah! "These cities are near one another...