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I've been paying attention to my mind to see if there are any noticeable changes while studying toki pona, so far I've noticed I'm more likely to parse ordinary English in two ways. This is like the experience you get reading: "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" This is d...

This is an awesome story. I understood far more than I expected to. sitelin ni li sitelin pona wawa. tenpo pini la mi pilin e ni: mi sona e ona lili. tenpo ni la mi pilin e ni: mi sona e ona mute. Were these intended to be interpreted as honorifics and social-rank establishing phrases? jan sama o - ...

a a a! mi kepeken ni sitelin musi tan lape ala pi suno sin.

Ha, I can use this song to wake up in the morning.

mi kepeken e sitelen musi ni tawa pini lape pi suno sin. I found tawa to mean *"for the benefit of" in lesson 6 of Jan Pije's lessons. *edited I had in mind, tan = "with the goal of", which on rethinking doesn't fit either. a! you're using the metaphor GOALS are PLACES. PROGRESS...

also norma loquendi is not applicable to tp because it does not serve as a normal language, i.e. it is not a tool of communication between poeple. note on this forum we do not use tp to transmit any important information Ah! A challenge! I just checked, in Wisconsin at least you can have legally va...

wisconsin? a city in oklahoma? no, too far from me. also, i dont understand this page. i understand the most of the words, but together they make no sense to me Just the line..."MCC makes much of the fact that the order form is entirely in Italian.... We find nothing in the CISG that ... retre...

mi ale li toki e ni: "mi ale li sitelin e toki pi mama mama mi" la toki pi mama mama li moli. tempo tu la ale li toki e ni: "mi pali e lipu mute pi nimi mute tawa toki mi" la toki li moli. tempo tu wan la ale li toki e ni: "mi pana sona e toki tawa jan pi toki sona" la ...

jan Mato o. mi ken esun e ijo tawa sina. mi tu li pali e lipu pi lawa mani. mi tu li pilin pona tawa lipu la, mi ken sitelen e toki ni kepeken sitelen suwi mi. mi pali e sitelen tu. sitelen tu li sama. mi pana e sitelen tu tawa sina. sina pana e linja nimi sina lon lipu tu. sina pana e sitelen tu t...

I'm not correcting anything here, I'm just adding another version. Establish paralinguistic evidence . (If I can assume you know the general topic, I can start dropping modifers.) jan li moli. pini la jan li mama meji. meli ni li jo e mama meji ni. tenpo moli la meli li kalama musi tawa mama meli mo...

Official Sources. We've got incomplete versions of the tokipona.org site in the Wayback machine since Feb 2002 . We've got the 2009 wiki version, which I think is a public work in progress as of Dec 2009. Canon by Community Repute: Wikipedia, As much of an authority as it is for anything on Wikiped...