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Trying to explain simple alchemy concept in toki pona. I've realised, that, thinking about all that dusty stuff in toki pona, I've started to write in really ancient style& Probably, it cames naturally, when you trying to think in such a good grounded language. I'm also tryed not to use numbers....

o lukin tawa sitelen ni

http://mike.oconnor.net.au/tp/script.png

By Mike O'Connor. ni li lukin sama (lili).

janKipo wrote:weka ala e sitelen; sitelen li pona; jan Sonja li pali; jan ante li pali.

Thank you!

Yes, pretty insipid. I suppose it is supposed to be iconic, but that never really works (one culture's icons are another's blobs). I do suppose that the 'mani' sign is a bull or some such, since 'mani' basically means "cattle, herd animals as wealth". The other signs range from the obviou...

janSilipu wrote:Can think of things I would rather see at 100% than hieroglyphs (which are at best a frill).

The specimen is available now. Looks nice. It's not sitelwn sitelen, something other.

For a complete sentence in tp or English you need a subject , in tp, something before the 'li'. But incomplete sentences often make sense in context like answers to questions or corrections. And many other cases. But whatever the context is, it typically makes clear what the subject is. And you nee...

While there cannot be certain knowledge which isn't true, there are surely truths that are unkown. The best explanation ever. Let's say: in my humble opinion, the X-Files slogan rethinked in tp, me, probably should prefer 'sona', because actually they hunting for some kind of knowledge, want to kno...

4th: nimi 'li' li namako li pakala. Also, it doesn't say what I want it to. "weka e nimi 'pi'" means "remove the word 'pi'". ken la "weka sona kepeken e" "forgot to use" Yes. 'li' is not needed here... But 'weka sona' means for me 'removed/omitted/clean the k...

jan_Anti wrote:

janKalepa wrote:
5th: This doesn't follow the "style" of that meme.

ken la loje mi li sama e jelo sina? But in tp it's not a question.

Is it right:

li sona e nimi mute

For me, it looks like in tp you need:

o sona e nimi mute

jan li sona e nimi mute