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So the question now is, why tp++; why not (as Chomsky and Montague and ol' Unca Tom Cobbley an' a' say) just tp and combination rules? The goal isn't so much the handful of example features I listed, but to break this design deadlock. I can't (well no one can) innovate with toki pona except around ...

Been reading about chanting recently-- it's a sort of noisy meditation. In Nichiren Buddhism, they chant 2 chapters of the Lotus Sutra, specifically the Kumarajiva translation (middle Chinese, IIRC) transliterated (not translated!) into Japanese phonology. Then in the US, we chant the Japanese like ...

From the sound of it, yes, a cross compiler is a production grammar. The input abstract structure is annotated toki pona with additional meaning specific synonyms for the particles. The output structure is a sentence of ordinary toki pona. I get the general idea, at least, but I am not clear about w...

I've written two blog posts on cross compiling annotated toki pona to ordinary toki pona. This is the blog post to try to express what my idea is. It isn't clever or original, but it is easy misunderstand. http://fakelinguist.wakayos.com/?p=831 This is a draft I threw together on annotations that I ...

If it's ego centric (based on the speakers standpoint) and context driven (and what's more contextually relevant that the speaker), then what is pona & ike depends on who's talking. toki pona nasin la nanpa nimi ni li pona kin (tawa mi) tan ni: nanpa nimi li suli kin! As for tp, if it's me talki...

Good point, then kute=obey is a design mistake. Most (all?) toki pona words were set up for maximal polysemy, the homonymy is sort of a flaw, although probably unavoidable. lawa = head, lawa = the boss, government, etc.

And an idea for justifying a , before or after la.... it would be useful if there was a verbal sentence delimiter. For my parser, when the puctuation is missing, I get a run on phrase, so I can usually detect missing periods, but I can't fix them. If there was a verbal delimiter for all sentences, e...

The definitions are something of a lie. When read, "telo means, water or sauce, and so on" it's only true up to the point where the distinction is salient. As soon as your in the kitchen, telo doesn't mean sauce. Telo would only mean "something liquid" So kute, if it means both l...

I'm planning to teach it, but only once my kid knows how to write. I think it's a good experience to learn a 2nd language and get to the point of mastery. With my other language learning attempts, I never achieved a sense of mastery-- that takes like 10 years of full day practice. There is another g...

I got an idea and not sure what to do with it yet. Computer programming languages have lint or compiler warnings when some syntax is suspicious, but not flat out a violation of the syntax of the language. These warnings are usually produced after a piece of code is written as a separate document &am...