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I would infringe copyright, if I posted it. Ah, of course. :D OK, sorry. Here are my comments. I didn't distinguish between "mistake" and "personal preference". tenpo pini mute → tenpo pi pini mute → kama pi tenpo pini suli jan Puluma kama kepeken tomo tawa → jan Puluma li kama ...

gbnmvfx wrote:pona! mi pali e pakala. taso mi kama sona. nimi "monsuta" li lon ala lon?

lipu suli pi toki pona li jo ala e nimi "monsuta".

mi ken lukin e ni: sina kama sona. toki pona sina li kama pona a.

mi la lon. pu la ala. o kepeken ona. mi kepeken pu. sina wile toki e seme? jan Kipo li jan pona ala pi lipu suli pi toki pona. tan ni la ona li wile toki e ni: o weka e lipu suli pi toki pona. o kepeken nasin toki pi jan Kipo. ("pu" ≠ "lipu") ("pu" = "kepeken lipu...

sunlin wrote:ali o, toki!
mi jan Sunlin Masu.
mi lon ma tomo Manhatan.
ma tomo Manhatan li jo ala jo e jan pi toki pona ante?
(toki pona mi li ike la, o pona e ni.)

kama pona!

-> "jan ali o"

jan Sunlin Masu o, toki! mi lon ma tomo Manatan kin ala. taso mi lon poka pi ma tomo Manatan, lon ma Lonkalan. (sina ken ala ken kama sona e nimi 'Lonkalan'? :-) sina ken ala kama sona e nimi ni la, mi pana e pona lili ni tawa sina: jan li lon ma Lonkalan la, ona li nimi 'Lonkalan' e ma ni; taso ja...

Regarding the idea of using "mute" as a preposition, I see three objections: toki, jan Kuka o! I share objections number 1 and 2 (the third one is over my head at the moment. :D ). It appears as if someone wanted to add and remove the expression "lon poka (pi)" (in the sense of ...

... toki, jan Kuka o! Thanks for clarifying your third objection. I understand that it sounds awkward to describe, say, two tiny things such as microbes and say that one of them is "big". The official book has this sentence, though (as far as I can remember): "jan li suli mute, mani ...

toki! For didactical purposes, specifically in order to illustrate Toki Pona sentence structures, I'm using the following punctuation: https://github.com/stefichjo/toki-pona/blob/master/nasin-toki.md#sitelen-musi-pi-poka-nimi If you would like your sentence to be analyzed, please post it in this thr...

In many cases, the official book eliminates commas (between li-phrases, e-phrases), but not always. For clarity, I keep them in the didactical punctuation.

ona li lili li lete.
→ ona li lili, li lete.

I'm using a hiphen between noun (phrase) and modifier in the didactical punctuation.

tomo tawa
→ tomo-tawa

The same goes for adjective-adverb-phrases and verb-adverb-phrases.

toki pona li pona mute.
→ toki-pona li pona-mute.