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As Chuang tzu says (after dreaming of being a butterfly)"I no longer know whether I am Chuang Chou dreaming of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of being Chuang Chou" tp philosophy in action. But I think that it is still OK to say 'mi lukin e lukin(sitelen/toki/...) lape' for "...

Yup! even nimi 'Jipi' li nimi pi tomo tawa.

Well, this English speaking colleague probably wouldn't accept the calque, had he known it was one. But then, insisting that they have different words is probably a calque (so to speak) of English (and most European languages I can think of - Romance and Germanic). This sort of thing will be more an...

Brilliant example of the problem. I might have tped it as 'wile pi jan Mewika' (certainly would have after this) but I might have gone off on a tangent, maybe not 'lape' (or maybe), but something about ideals and the like (pilin sewi?).

jan Enkitu li tawa nasin pi ma tomo Uluku. Probably 'lon nasin pi..." He travels ON the road, not TO the road. ona li awen lon sinpin pi lupa tomo ni Probably 'lupa pi tomo ni' (although the difference between "this house-door} and "the door of this house" is not great) ona li aw...

Nice! Sorry I missed the progression. As the fight goes on, will the trembling walls anpa?

ona li ala jan ike tawa sina "They are evilly human nothings to you" (zombies?) '...li jan ike ala tawa...' ja[k]n o kama jan sama tawa mi Actually clearer without 'tawa' which makes it look like "Come to me. my brother." though invalidly. Nice -- but I wish it was easier to kiss.

pona mute. sitele sina li pona tawa mi. mi pilin pona tan ni: sina sitelen pona kepeken toki pona. jan Kikamesi[li] li jan lawa pi ma tomo Uluku mama mute li pilin ike tan ni. 'tan ni la mama mute li pilin ike to make clearer the referent of 'ni' jan mute li pana e telo oko tan ni. ditto -- this is ...

Well, 'kijetasantakalu' (or whatever) was a joke (dated April 1 and all) and I hope is not really going to turn up in anything tp (I suppose 'soweli Kinkasu' and the like might get in here in some way, but ...). I see the entry on 'esun' (like most of the entries at this time) to be very incomplete,...

Thank you. It wouldn't be possible without your help. Thank you for the interesting material (and for your thanks, too). ona li ken ala tawa wawa. Interesting! I might prefer 'kama' to 'tawa' (which is overworked I would rather keep it, because "tawa" is about general movement, ability to...