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by janTepanNetaPelin
Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:26 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35474

Re: la phrases

Yesterday I was asking this on the Toki Pona Facebook page: toki! I remember Sonja answering in a FB group (this one, I presume) that she uses la-phrases starting with a preposition, e.g. "tan seme la". Can someone confirm (and perhaps provide a link to that post), please? Sonja replied: Y...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:12 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35474

Re: la phrases

toki! I din't wrote that you can transfer any la phrase to a prepositional object with lon. We saw that a noun or pronoun start a la phrase normally. Where is the evidence that tan is here a preposition? pona! toki! Are other types of la-sentences relevant to this discussion? There is no proof. I'm...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:20 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: la phrases
Replies: 42
Views: 35474

Re: la phrases

toki! janTepanNetaPelin wrote la phrases start with a preposition. I can't see it. But are there posisibilities for preposition at the beginning of a la phrase? Why do you think it is possible? How can we distinguish such preposition from a noun? pona! toki! Let's consider a sentence like: "ta...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:07 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 18
Views: 22066

Re: toki!

"Your grammar." - I mean your lessons and your Toki Pona parser. My lessons and Parser are in accordance to the official Toki Pona book. According to your grammar (i.e. your understanding of Toki Pona's grammar) a sentence can't start with a preposition. Therefore a sentence like "ta...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:37 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 18
Views: 22066

Re: toki!

What do you mean with "your grammar"? Why do you think a "la" phrase requires a "pi"? pona! toki! "Your grammar." - I mean your lessons and your Toki Pona parser. According to your grammar (i.e. your understanding of Toki Pona's grammar) a sentence can't star...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:41 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 18
Views: 22066

Re: toki!

I'm not using my own grammar. I try to use logic to fill the gabs. ;-) pona! toki! Either it works only with "lon" and "tan seme la" stands for "lon tan seme?", which is always replaced by "tan seme?" OR you can put "prepositional objects" in front ...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:32 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 18
Views: 22066

Re: toki!

"sama sina li lon, la ..." = "if your equality is ..." "sama sina la ..." = "at your equality ..." (but I don't mean that) "sama sina la ..." = "like you ..." "tawa sina la ..." = "at your movement ..." (but nobody mean...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:48 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 18
Views: 22066

Re: toki!

sama sina la ... mi tawa. toki! "sama sina la ..." means "If your equality is ..." This make no sense to me. "sama sina li lon, la ..." = "if your equality is ..." "sama sina la ..." = "at your equality ..." (but I don't mean that) "s...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:29 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 18
Views: 22066

Re: toki!

kama pona, jan Makuwe o!

sama sina la mi pu. anpa la sina ken kama lukin e lipu mi pi toki pona.

mi tawa.
by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:30 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Left and Right
Replies: 14
Views: 15802

Re: Left and Right

toki,

I would experiment with "the side of the heart" and "the main side":

* poka pilin = left
* poka lawa = right

mi tawa.