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jan mani li jo e mani tan seme? ken la ona li jo e mani tan pali anu seme? ala! jan wan li sama pipi musi. jan ante li sama pipi pali . ni li lon ala lon? ni li lon. mi lukin e ni kepeken oko mi kin! tenpo suli pini la mi en jan Male li kama sona lon tomo sona. kulupu mama mi li jo e mani lili. kul...

'toki tawa jan pali mute'? Yes. 'mama unpa' I don't think 'unpa' is meant to carry the pejorative sense that its English version has and similarly with its compounds. I know. But 'jan pakala' or similar makes even less sense. So I used a common IE calque. mi pakala. 'jan jaki' would be much better....

btw, you used double la construction in the quote above A la B la C: A=>(B=>C). is this a generall way preferrable for you? A mistake. jan li utala kepeken ilo utala la jan ni li kama moli tan ilo utala jan li ken kepeken e ilo la ilo li pana ala e ike tawa ona. pona. taso toki ni li tan lipu Pipij...

don't need 'pi' in 'kama suli ala' but 'kama ala suli' is clearer: 'kama pi suli ala' definitely say "become unbig" But there is 'kama pi su w i ala': ona li kama suli la ona li kama pi suwi ala. = when it grows up, it becomes not-cute. In the last sentence I would have used 'ante' rather...

Revised version kulupu lipu Pipija. lipu pi jan Jowane (tenpo ni la) jan sona pi lawa sewi en jan Palisi li tawa e meli unpa tawa jan Jesu li toki e ni: "sina li pana e sona. mi lukin e ni: meli ni li unpa e mije. taso mije ni li mije ona ala. ni li ike. jan Mose li pana e lawa tawa mi li lawa ...

Is it "Red Square" everywhere, i.e, the equivalent in the major languages, or do most languages use the transliteration? In Polish it is 'Plac Czerwony ' = " Red Square", too. Although we have almost the same word: krasny / krasna , meaning "bright red; colorful" or &q...

compare kulupu utala Kasaja vs kulupu utala Loje . Or maybe even kulupu utala Kasaja Amija - because "Army" was a persistent part of this proper name. It used to be shortened from "Raboče-Krestjanskaja Krasnaja Armija" to "Krasnaja Armija", but never to "Krasnaya&...

tenpo pini la ona mute li pali e ijo tawa jan Hitler tan ni: ona mute li wile ala e ike tan jan Nazi. nasin ni li ike tawa mi. o pilin e ni: jan ale li tawa nasin Seki la lawa ike li kama jo e ma ale jan li utala kepeken ilo utala la jan ni li kama moli tan ilo utala nasin ni li pona ala pona? pona...

mi pilin e ni: jan lawa Hitler li pona pi nanpa wan tawa jan pi Ukawina pi suno weka. jan Stalin li pona pi nanpa tu tawa ona. jan Pilsudski li pona pi nanpa 3.tenpo ni la jan lawa ona li jan Ukawina. taso ona li pilin pona ala. ona li toki e ni: "pakala. ale li pakala" a a a! ni li lon k...

Resived version: kala suwi li lon telo wan taso. telo ni li telo Sosimiko. ona li lon ma Mesiko. tenpo pini la kala suwi li lon telo tu. taso telo pi nanpa tu li kama ma. ni li ike. telo li kama ma la kala suwi li moli. telo li kama jaki la kala ni li moli. seli pi telo pi kala ni li awen. ona li an...