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by jan Alanto
Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:28 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35419

Re: la phrases

jan Lope o! I'm starting to get your perspective on the grammar of toki pona. As your lessons are actually based on Pije's old lessons, with a similar terminology, you had to adapt them to Sonja's new decisions and grammar, and interpret them as still being part of the old way of viewing toki pona's...
by jan Alanto
Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:14 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35419

Re: la phrases

Sorry, I'm too stubborn to want to put an end to this discussion without a winner. And it seems he thinks the same way. I don't think he is an incorruptible stubborn, that can't argument with reason, just imposing his absurdly rigid rules. I'm trying to use his main weapon against our innovations of...
by jan Alanto
Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:41 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35419

Re: la phrases

If you give me an example we can discuss it. tan jan seme la sina pu? (the example given by Tepan) kepeken ilo sitelen la jan li ken sitelen lon lipu. (I made that up) Can you claim those are wrong examples? Just because it's said the words after "lon" can be placed before "la" ...
by jan Alanto
Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:22 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35419

Re: la phrases

toki a! I think you mean a prepositional object for "prepositional phrase". (I call "prepositional object" what comes after the preposition i.e. the noun it introduces, and prepositional phrase the whole formed by the preposition and its object) I 've checked a lot of correct Tok...
by jan Alanto
Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:43 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: musi “Pokemon” kepeken toki pona
Replies: 2
Views: 9614

Re: musi “Pokemon” kepeken toki pona

nimi Pokemon li musi mute. taso mi pilin e ni: ken la nimi li wile lon sinpin pi nimi "Pokemon". ken la "soweli Pokemon" anu "lon Pokemon" anu "ijo Pokemon". taso ken la ni li wile ala. ken la pokemon li pokemon taso.
by jan Alanto
Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:31 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35419

Re: la phrases

Maybe Tepan don't know any evidence that endorses his way of using prepositions before "la", but I found those in the Official Toki Pona Book: 1. Sonja mentions "fragment" as A in "A la B." She doesn't explicit it must be a noun or a pronoun (she doesn't even distinguis...
by jan Alanto
Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:15 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: o jan ali, toki! mi jan SeliKiwen.
Replies: 5
Views: 7907

Re: o jan ali, toki! mi jan SeliKiwen.

jan Selikiwen o, kama pona tawa kulupu ni!
by jan Alanto
Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:47 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: len lawa loje
Replies: 41
Views: 30997

Re: len lawa loje

I'd say "mi pali tawa pona pi toki ni." since 'toki' alone already means story. "taso (no 'la') ni li ike mute." I didn't understand "mi jo e tenpo ike" before I read the translation. This expression (hard time) means "difficulty" thus "ike". "t...
by jan Alanto
Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:23 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: len lawa loje
Replies: 41
Views: 30997

Re: len lawa loje

Oh! You choose the most malicious version of the story. :twisted: Not suitable for today's fragile kids. Your toki pona style is comparably good. You seem to avoid common place literal calquey translations and I can understand almost everything you wrote. It's a very clear and unambiguous writing. C...
by jan Alanto
Sat Oct 15, 2016 6:01 pm
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: как сказать "кровь" на тп? --> telo suno = blood
Replies: 31
Views: 40898

Re: как сказать "кровь" на тп? --> telo suno = blood

I only see "sewi li tan e jan." meaning "God originated man." or "gives/is the reason to men (li pana e tan tawa jan/li tan tawa jan)". I would think of an expulsion with "li tawa e jan tan" (moved from), "li weka e jan" (make absent), "li tawa ...