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by janKipo
Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:43 am
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"
Replies: 20
Views: 29491

Re: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"

Well, you haven’t read a lot ot tp, since ‘lete’ and /‘seli’ are old and in all the better dictionaries. (“Amelika lete’, for example). The problem. with ‘open’ and ‘pini’ iis just that they can be. confused with. “left” and right” and that whole area is muddled enough already. so, ‘anpa’ and ‘sewi’...
by janKipo
Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:43 am
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"
Replies: 20
Views: 29491

Re: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"

“NOrth” and “South” have been (despite obvious objetions) ‘lete’ and ‘seli’’ since very early in tp history, ‘anpa’ and ’s\ewi’ work fine for “West” and “East’. describing the motion of the Sun.
by janKipo
Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:16 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: Translating music
Replies: 3
Views: 6799

Re: Translating music

janKipo wrote: ‘mi weka ali’? Won't it mean something like 'I leave (from) everywhere'? NNo, ‘ali’ is jst an adverb here, so it means ‘“go away completely””, That is probably what ‘weka pini’ is mant to mean but ‘pini’s invoveent in tenses makes for confusions with “went away’ and the like. I just ...
by janKipo
Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:11 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: Translating music
Replies: 3
Views: 6799

Re: Translating music

If you like it, it’s pona. ‘mi tawa weka en weka ala’.. ‘en’ can’t be used most places English “and” can be and, in particukllar, not here, joining two modifiers or two predicates. The latter reading is easiet to follow: it has to be (at first glance) a fused predicate ‘’mi tawaw weka li tawa weka a...
by janKipo
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:38 am
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"
Replies: 20
Views: 29491

Re: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"

Well, I think the tendency is to use ‘swi’ and ‘anpa’ rather that ‘open’ and ‘pini’ for East and West. They don’t require knowing about North and South or about Left and right. For Left and Right, I think we have settled on ‘pok open’ for “left” and ‘poka pini’ for “right” for essentially the reason...
by janKipo
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:31 am
Forum: musi
Topic: A few haiku of Matsuo Basho in Toki Pona
Replies: 8
Views: 18920

Re: A few haiku of Matsuo Basho in Toki Pona

Very nice. Grammatically, only the ‘e’ missing before ‘tenpo' in the first one is a problem, which is going to screw up the whole structure. Otherwise. there is the question of why the worm is copulating with the nut (or whatever is going on). As a spcification of ‘pipi’ worms are usually ‘linja’ (c...
by janKipo
Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:24 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi ante e toki sitelen pi mi
Replies: 1
Views: 5540

Re: mi ante e toki sitelen pi mi

prob ‘’pini sitelen’ “finish writing’ rather than ‘stelen pini’ “write completely’. more like ‘ni’, the whole event, than ‘ona’ some little part of it prepositional phrases go after direct object (‘e’) so ‘e ijo lili ... tawa toki pona’. the dash hasn’t beeen define for tp cpmpounds so this is just ...
by janKipo
Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:41 am
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: thai script for toki pona
Replies: 2
Views: 12586

Re: thai script for toki pona

Not altogether a promising script for tp.
by janKipo
Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:38 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
Replies: 8
Views: 9654

Re: toki! mi jan Kaja

tp is a bit murky, so every detail possible needs to be givne. Thus, every sentence needs a agent subject, even if its on “somebody”. It is easy to reproduce passive ine tp , just use the corresponding actives (this get a bit messy with modifiers, but its’s good practice).
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:42 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!
Replies: 3
Views: 6467

Re: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!

btw “Kalili’ is not a legitimate tp word, either ‘Kali’ or ‘Kalilii’ (or some other vowel).