Search found 50 matches

by janTe
Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:12 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Replies: 60
Views: 55727

Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja

Hi everyone. I'm new to toki pona, but I think it's great, and I'm loving it more and more as time passes. At first, I was puzzled by the lack of numeracy in toki pona. I wondered how I would live without large numbers. I thought that even primitive people needed to say their equivalent of "I'l...
by janTe
Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:16 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Replies: 60
Views: 55727

Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja

janTe wrote: For addresses, I can just give directions, like 3 doors past Dundas Street (sina tawa nasin Dundas li tawa lipu tu wan).
Oops, I mean "sina tawa nasin Dundas li tawa lupa tu wan".
by janTe
Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:06 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Replies: 60
Views: 55727

Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja

lon! mi lon ma Kanata :-) I wasn't aware that Sonja has spoken before about money. I searched on google, but didn't find anything. Do you know where I should look? Regarding ages and dates, has anyone suggested using something like the traditional Chinese calendar? The traditional Chinese calendar d...
by janTe
Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:23 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: How to say DVD?
Replies: 3
Views: 4080

Re: How to say DVD?

This is just a guess, but how about "sike sitelen" (picture disc)?

sike di sitelen tawa? (disc of moving pictures?)
by janTe
Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:21 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Replies: 60
Views: 55727

Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja

Oops, I was trying to say "two days and five weeks from the start of October", but maybe that doesn't work with the order of grouping in tp. And I don't know why I said "di" instead of "pi". I think my brain was getting confused by my knowledge of French.
by janTe
Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:17 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Chinese calendar? (tenpo sike pi jan Sonko)
Replies: 22
Views: 19681

Chinese calendar? (tenpo sike pi jan Sonko)

A discussion in another thread made me think about how one would use the traditional Chinese calendar in Toki Pona. (The advantage of the traditional Chinese calendar is that the years aren't numbered; rather, they're assigned a name containing one of five elements and one of 12 animals, resulting i...
by janTe
Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:59 am
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: A range of possibilities
Replies: 55
Views: 75158

Re: A range of possibilities

the second point is that for some words there are no kanji. these are la li o e pi . Actually, although Japanese doesn't use kanji (Chinese characters) for its grammatical particles, Chinese does, so you could find kanji characters to represent those structural particles. I would suggest: la -- 地 (...
by janTe
Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:11 am
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: A range of possibilities
Replies: 55
Views: 75158

Re: A range of possibilities

Also, words like "lipu" and "palisa" could be represented quite well by Chinese classifier words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_classifiers I like the idea that a Chinese speaker could look at Toki Pona written in Chinese characters and be able to guess at the mean...
by janTe
Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:18 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja
Replies: 60
Views: 55727

Re: sin pi toki nanpa tan jan Sonja

You know what? It's probably just easier to say that my birthday was one day before November. If dates were given that way, we'd never have to use a number greater than 15. For example, don't say Christmas is the 25th day of December; say Christmas is 7 days before January. (tenpo Kolisumasu li tenp...
by janTe
Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:25 pm
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: nimi sin sin (eĉ plu novaj vortoj, even more new words)
Replies: 35
Views: 28279

Re: nimi sin sin (eĉ plu novaj vortoj, even more new words)

I find the word "namako" interesting. I wonder if it could be used to indicate excess. For example, "You drink too much" instead of just "You drink much".

"Sina moku namako e telo nasa!"