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by janKipo
Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:20 pm
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: Questions about store items
Replies: 2
Views: 4479

Questions about store items

So, I gotta ask: are the ladies' thongs and huggers toki poona?
by janKipo
Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:06 pm
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: Do I miss a word?
Replies: 5
Views: 6163

Re: Do I miss a word?

Your count seems right, but until we get an official list, it is hard to say (I can't find anything about 'pu,' for example).
by janKipo
Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:50 am
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: pilin ike wawa
Replies: 4
Views: 6370

Re: pilin ike wawa

I wonder whether 'lon poka jan ike' is going to cut it as a noun phrase. I suppose it means "being with an enemy(or just a bad person)" although it could be (except for its position) "beside an enemy." I suppose it works, but it looks very odd. It felt odd when I wrote it, but I...
by janKipo
Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:39 pm
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: pilin ike wawa
Replies: 4
Views: 6370

Re: pilin ike wawa

I wonder whether 'lon poka jan ike' is going to cut it as a noun phrase. I suppose it means "being with an enemy(or just a bad person)" although it could be (except for its position) "beside an enemy." I suppose it works, but it looks very odd. 'tenpo lili' as "occasionally,...
by janKipo
Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:48 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: ijo lili li pakala lili
Replies: 11
Views: 11704

Re: ijo lili li pakala lili

1. (sitelen, tawa / sitelen tawa) The more I think about this the more I like it. It seems unobtrusive but clarifying. I'd like to see how people use it and if it proves as useful as it looks. I like it too and I think there are enough bad cases (admittedly mostly with 'tawa' but 'poka' and 'lon' a...
by janKipo
Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:49 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: ijo lili li pakala lili
Replies: 11
Views: 11704

Re: ijo lili li pakala lili

2. 2.'jan suli pi tan ma lili Teja'it is better without pi . why do we need it? A. The phrase is a right grouped unit within a left grouping, which would ordinarily call for 'pi' B. It removes an ambiguity (to which I am, admittedly, particularly vulnerable) I think I am still unclear what you are ...
by janKipo
Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:56 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: ijo lili li pakala lili
Replies: 11
Views: 11704

Re: ijo lili li pakala lili

6. the problem of multiple "la". e.g. A la B means if A, then B; A=>B what could A la B la C mean? a range of possibilities: A=>(B=>C) (A=>B)=>C (A=>B)&(A=>C) (A=>C)&(B=>C) --------- I haven't seen a lot of that, but it is a nice potential problem. Aside from the advice to avoid t...
by janKipo
Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:41 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: jan Kikamesi. utala pi jan Kunpapa
Replies: 78
Views: 44820

Re: jan Kikamesi. utala e jan Kunpapa

Let's try the next part: ... tenpo suli kama la jan li toki e ni: «jan Kikamesi li utala e jan wawa Kuwawa lon nena pi kasi suli li kama moli lon utala ni». nimi mi li kama suli". kulupu pi jan sona jan Kikamesi en jan Enkitu li tawa supa pi ma tomo. jan lawa Kikamesi li toki e ni: "jan a...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:44 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: ijo lili li pakala lili
Replies: 11
Views: 11704

ijo lili li pakala lili

mi wile ala ante e toki pona. mi wile e ni taso: jan li ken lukin pona e nasin nimi pi toki pona. So: 1. The 'jan li pana e sitelen tawa mi' = " A guy gave me a picture" or "I guy showed my movie" problem. Nothing in writing distinguishes that 'tawa' as modifier or preposition. T...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:58 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: toki nasa "jan lawa Oliki" pi jan Pusikin.
Replies: 18
Views: 18093

Re: toki nasa "jan lawa Oliki" pi jan Pusikin.

And not the only one neither.