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by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:59 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: jan pi ma ni o toki!
Replies: 4
Views: 10424

Re: jan pi ma ni o toki!

janTulon wrote:toki,

sike suno pini la mi kama sona e toki pona. taso mi wile kama mute pona. ma ni li jo ala e kalama mute tan seme?

pona, jan Tulon
jan Tulon o, toki.

jan pi mute lili li lon ni. jan pi mute suli li lon ma Facebook.
by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:55 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Translation problem
Replies: 1
Views: 4286

Re: Translation problem

toki!

Jes, the three circles can be read as "kulupu" and the two lines above as "sama", "kulupu sama" = "same group". The French text reveals that the author had no Toki Pona background whatsoever, though.
by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:47 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: First time here. A couple questions...
Replies: 13
Views: 13450

Re: First time here. A couple questions...

Hi Jethro, a few remarks about this thread: The particle pi is used to divide a second noun group that describe a first noun group. -- (from the official Toki Pona book by Sonja Lang (the creator of the language)) pi separates a noun from another noun that has an adjective -- (from Pije's lessons, t...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:23 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Ideas for Phonology. Three vowel system.
Replies: 7
Views: 11818

Re: Ideas for Phonology. Three vowel system.

Wow! The three-vowel system fits surprisingly well for Toki Pona! The only word pair that becomes indistinguishable is ken ~ kin . toki! I noticed that, too. Luckily, if you follow the official Toki Pona book by Sonja Lang, there is no need to use "kin", as it's a mere synonym of "a&...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:19 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Use "seme la" as a yes/no question marker
Replies: 27
Views: 34212

Re: Use "seme la" as a yes/no question marker

jan Asi o, toki! Mind that "x la ..." is no different from "... lon x", so "seme la ..." would be the same as "... lon seme", which literally means "at what" and is used for asking "where". So, "seme la sina pali?"/"sina pali...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:55 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: kalama musi tan jan musi Pitalesi kepeken toki pona
Replies: 4
Views: 10072

Re: kalama musi tan jan musi Pitalesi kepeken toki pona

toki! "meli" works ("a/the woman"), but usually one would say "ona" or, if necessary, "ona meli". One would usually say "toki e ni" ("said that"), but it could be argued that "toki ni" ("said so") also works. "sona ...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:36 am
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: nasin toki pi toki pona
Replies: 91
Views: 110969

Re: nasin toki pi toki pona

Jan Tomen wrote:That's probably really useful for the people you didn't block because you didn't agree with yet!
Thanks!
:D
Hm, thanks? (I don't understand the "yet"-part, to be honest.)

The idea of blocking people was to avoid bullying and trolling, not to win an argument.

Cheers!
by janTepanNetaPelin
Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:17 am
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: nasin toki pi toki pona
Replies: 91
Views: 110969

Re: nasin toki pi toki pona

Here is a link to the grammatical terms published in "Toki Pona Taso" (Facebook group) for parts-of-speech and parts-of-sentence in Toki Pona as used in my grammar document.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokipon ... 831350350/

mi tawa!
by janTepanNetaPelin
Sun Sep 10, 2017 1:27 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Is "poka" a spatial noun only or can it be a preposition too?
Replies: 9
Views: 7937

Re: Is "poka" a spatial noun only or can it be a preposition too?

What would preposition "sewi" mean? "poka" exists because we want to have "with", one of the more basic prepositions present in almost all languages (if not all), it was chosen to reduce word count, since it would have been "kan". There is no preposition that...
by janTepanNetaPelin
Sun Sep 10, 2017 1:10 pm
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: Adverb glyph question
Replies: 7
Views: 11992

Re: Adverb glyph question

jan waso lape wrote:Reminds me of Esperanto a bit - emphasis in the order. So "jan lili jaki" would be a child who also happens to be messy, and "jan jaki lili" would be a messy person who also happens to be little?
Yes. (But nothing Esperanto-centric from my point of view.)