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And 'jan PI ma ali'
But thanks all the same.

Edits made above in bold. As to why a subject : if you have a having you have to have a haver as well as a havee. Snowing is another problem altogether. Hmm, seems like in both cases the subject is unknown or ill defined and the speaker isn't trying to call undue attention to it. "The horse is...

Well, I shoulda said "at least decimal," since, if our cultural carriers are computer geeks, we need to go to hexadecimal and have words for dek, el, zen, trit, qat and quin -- or whatever they are calling them now. Unidecimal doesn't seem to help much. We also need -- for addresses again ...

moku-akesi-
pona a!

a! ma ante, sona ante.

<<"Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) mi en sina en ona li wile e ni : li jo e ijo tawa lili. (why do we need a subject? It's like having to say "it" in "it snows" in English?) I, you, and he wants this, that things...

NIce one! But to the issue at hand. I don't think any proposal for "big" numbers can work for tp unless it meets these requirements: 1. it uses decimal place notation (need for the one place it is actually necessary: addresses, including dates) 2. uses a different syntax from that used for...

Goes OK for a while, but Pokemon surely just confuses matters and "poki comes in a box" doesn't do anything. You might try "poke in the ribs" but that points both ways -- or neither. The etymology helps? 'poki' from 'poksi' Tok Pisan for "box" ("pig in a poke"...

Is this really Russian? It seems vaguely familiar from some minor British poetry course, though not to any detail (though some of the details are hazy here as well). I can't comment on the Russian or the RtE translation, only on the correspondence between the English and the tp. ma Alan, li pona taw...

open la ni li suwi. taso ni kama li ike tawa mi: jan li nimi 'mute' e nanpa li nimi 'ali' e napa. tan ni pini la pini la ni li jaki.