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nimi pali ali li wile e nimi "li". All verbs require "li".

ni li musi li pona mute tawa mi

pona a! :lol: kulupu nimi sina li nasa lili li wile e nimi "li" e nimi "e". mi wile toki e ni kepeken nasin ni: "jan li ken ala kin ... toki kepeken toki pona." mi pilin e ni: jan li wile ala e kulupu nimi "ni" tan ni: nimi "ken" li lawa e kulupu nim...

Seems like no one else has anything to say, so I re-wrote the story. I changed the animal names ('waso tomo meli/mije pi moku sike' & 'waso nasa pi tan ma Kanata'). 'pan' for 'moku' wherever it refers to the pancake. I added an extra 'pi' in 'sina pi pona pi mute mute ...' and 'kama weka tan' fo...

nimi "lipu" li pona tawa mi. tenpo pini (en tenpo ni kin) la, jan li sitelen e lipu kepeken ilo sitelen. tenpo ni la, jan li sitelen e lipu pi lon ilo Intene kepeken ilo sitelen. nimi "sitelen" (write/type) li sama. nimi "ilo sitelen" (pencil/keyboard) li sama kin. tan ...

nimi "kon sewi ike" anu "jan sewi ike" li pona mute tawa mi.

Native speakers are notoriously bad to consult (rather than observe) since they always claim to speak "correctly," whether they do or not. If native speakers don't speak "correctly", then who does? Consulting different L1 speakers is the easiest way to obtain the contrastive str...

janSonja wrote:Total Percent Complete 36%
Toki Pona hieroglyphs 85%

nasin sitelen "Toki Pona hieroglyphs" li nasin pi sitelen sitelen pi tan jan JonathanGabel (nimi ona pi toki pona li seme?) anu nasin ante?

@janSilipu: What would be good a term for 'goose'? 'waso nasa' seems like too much of an anglicism to me. In other languages chickens are the birds associated with silly behavior. The best I could come with was "Canadian bird", although I doubt the birds in the story are actually Canadian ...

e ni, mi pilin: kepeken nasin ni, jan Jota li toki.

"wawa, sina kama. e poka pimeja, mi pilin, pi lon insa sina." (“Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”)

As long as you keep the comma, I think it'll work. It's not like Yoda-talk is grammatical in English either.