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by jan Josan
Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:41 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: sike waso
Replies: 10
Views: 7392

Re: sike waso

'o kama jo e mute' I wasn't sure if mute as a head noun would fly, so I was trying to sneak it in as an adverb, "come to get prodigiously" or some such. 'mije li weka' pakala! I forgot to check my work with your "meli = Mary" trick. This has already saved me a number of times. '...
by jan Josan
Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:06 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: sike waso
Replies: 10
Views: 7392

Re: sike waso

meli li toke e wile ona tawa meji ona. meli li wile ni: meji li alisa e pan en sike waso lon esun moku. "meji mi o tawa esun moku o esun e pan tawa mani. kin la esun li jo e sike waso la o kama jo e ijo LW. "mi tawa" tempo M tan MMM pi ilo tempo li kama la meji li kama sin li jo e pa...
by jan Josan
Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: Cross Post about horses
Replies: 6
Views: 4982

Re: Cross Post about horses

tempo pini la mi moku. tempo li pini. mi moku. tempo li pini la mi moku. My first reading of the three is as follows: I ate (already). Time's up. I eat. If the time is up, I eat. If the time phrase is it's own sentence, I think it is a narrative device to comment on time between events. When it com...
by jan Josan
Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:21 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Word counting and a word for life
Replies: 29
Views: 21399

Re: Word counting and a word for life

mije en meli taso li ken lon e jan sin li lon. jan ilo li ken ala. - Only man and woman can create new, aware people. Not robots. You're instinct to split the people and the robots into two sentences is good. But the first sentence would have to end with 'jan sin' or it is an (illegal) compound: mi...
by jan Josan
Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:07 pm
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: Progressive enhancement in toki pona
Replies: 2
Views: 4541

Re: Progressive enhancement in toki pona

Nice analysis. I'd like to see the sentence diagramming this would produce.
by jan Josan
Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:58 am
Forum: ante toki
Topic: toki pona in chinese/kanji?
Replies: 23
Views: 69283

Re: toki pona in chinese/kanji?

Well I'll give this a try, just don't tell my boss what I'm really typing. Here's my first attempt at coming up with rough Chinese single character equivalents. I've used simplified characters in keeping with the pona of toki pona. At times I have chosen less common characters. For instance I chose ...
by jan Josan
Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:10 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Why are certain words used so infrequently?
Replies: 6
Views: 5250

Re: Why are certain words used so infrequently?

I think one good tp article on the vociferous mating rituals of aquatic pachyderms should bring those last four words in line.
by jan Josan
Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:18 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY jan pisku
Replies: 4
Views: 3840

Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY jan pisku

ken la pona li kama tawa sina!
by jan Josan
Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:23 pm
Forum: pali pona | actions and lifestyle | agado kaj vivstilo
Topic: dogs arthritis aspirin
Replies: 6
Views: 13593

Re: dogs arthritis aspirin

I just sent a message to emufarmers to remove the last two offenders. Whenever I've done this in the past, they have stopped (I don't know if this is going to Sonja or the host site administrator). It would be nice to clear the posts out of the record too...
by jan Josan
Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:37 am
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: new alphabet picture
Replies: 6
Views: 8053

Re: new alphabet picture

*kiLi

ike mi. mi wile e kili tan esun kili.