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by janMato
Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:09 am
Forum: pali pona | actions and lifestyle | agado kaj vivstilo
Topic: toki "Damin" li sama lili e toki pona.
Replies: 5
Views: 25693

toki "Damin" li sama lili e toki pona.

*edits in bold meji "Steven Pinker" li meji pali pi sona toki . meji li sitelen e ni: "toki "Damin" li jo e nimi pi nanpa ale ale!" lon sitelen "The Language Instinct", linpu pi nanpa ale ale mute mute mute tu tu (264)". jan ante li sitelen e ni: toki &q...
by janMato
Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:03 pm
Forum: pali pona | actions and lifestyle | agado kaj vivstilo
Topic: toki "Damin" li sama lili e toki pona.
Replies: 5
Views: 25693

Re: toki "Damin" li sama lili e toki pona.

sona ni li sona musi mute e mi. "This wisdom very amusingly means me" Not sure what the target was, but I think the shot was wide. Goal- "This information is interesting to me." I think I've almost pinned why the verb phrase distresses me. While noun phrases have multi-way polys...
by janMato
Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:26 am
Forum: musi
Topic: esun kepeken toki pona
Replies: 15
Views: 18819

Re: esun kepeken toki pona

jan Josan! pona la mi lukin e nimi sina, lipu lawa pi esun kama li pona mute. mi *sona* e sina. sona mi li ijo ni. sona sina li ijo ni. ijo tu li sama lon lawa mi mute. jan li pali la mi pilin e ni : mi wile e ni: jan li pali tawa mani. ona li *sama*. mi kepeken e nimi sama tawa nasin pona tawa nasi...
by janMato
Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:57 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: toki pi kalama pona suli
Replies: 73
Views: 39112

Re: toki pi kalama pona suli

*edits in bold I'll defer to others on the copy-editing. I understood your version just fine, but I'll add an alternate version to the first para. tempo mun ni la mi lape. suno li kama. mi lape ala. mi lukin e mi. mi moli ala! a a a! mi pilin e pona. mi lukin e ijo mi. ijo li awen e ijo mi! a a a! ...
by janMato
Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:23 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: esun kepeken toki pona
Replies: 15
Views: 18819

Re: esun kepeken toki pona

[quote="janKipo"]<<mi *sona* e sina. sona mi li ijo ni. sona sina li ijo ni. ijo tu li sama lon lawa mi mute.>>Probably just 'mi tu' <<jan li pali la mi pilin e ni : mi wile e ni: jan li pali tawa mani. ona li *sama*. mi kepeken e nimi sama tawa nasin pona tawa nasin pakala ala.>>? "I...
by janMato
Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:47 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: toki pi kalama pona suli
Replies: 73
Views: 39112

Re: toki pi kalama pona suli

* edit, do'h needed to reverse order of lupa tomo. There's got to be a clever way to distinguish door and window. lupa tomo. door, window, skylight, that hole the tree made when it fell through the living room ceiling lupa tomo tawa suno. window, building hole for sun. Do I need relative clauses to...
by janMato
Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Clause-trophobia
Replies: 22
Views: 19859

Clause-trophobia

The accusative clitic "e" and the other clitics "sama", "lon", "kepeken", etc. seem to be related. They seem to serve the role of prepositions or cases. We can by canon, write this: [noun phrase] e ni : [sentence]. And the sentence after "ni" modifie...
by janMato
Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:20 am
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: ...
Replies: 1
Views: 4015

Re: ...

"jan lili" li weka e sina lon pilin ona li pilin pakala tawa sina... Children *forget you in it's feeling and they suffer/feel bad for you. * see dictionary lookups below kin la jan li weka e pali pi tenpo pini li pilin pakala tawa sina... Maybe one forgets the work of completed time perio...
by janMato
Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: esun kepeken toki pona
Replies: 15
Views: 18819

Re: esun kepeken toki pona

Perhaps it is time to decide what to call those drawings. I've used suwi so far because it doesn't seem presumptuous while still distinguishing them from other heiroglyphic toki pona scripts. As jan Mato pointed out it works as an obvoius idiom. Perhaps not the best way to describe them though. I'v...
by janMato
Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:03 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Kusta
Replies: 13
Views: 8053

Re: toki! mi jan Kusta

mi pali e tomo ilo sona tawa mani. ilo sona ni li utala e jan ike ilo sona. (Is there a better way to say "hacker" in toki pona than "jan ike ilo son" - "bad computer person"?) probably "mi pali e ilo sona tawa mani" tomo is a sort of real estate, a room, a b...