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- Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:32 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: How to say: "We are humans and we are from Earth"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9412
Re: How to say: "We are humans and we are from Earth"
I guess a planet is strictly a mun, but it is not clear how much we can rely on this apparently interplanetary message. For example, would not a speaking species on any planet claim that they are jan, persons? Even if we thought of them as akesi?
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:08 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: tenpo sitelen Tomaniki (Dominick's Calendar)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14231
Re: tenpo sitelen Tomaniki (Dominick's Calendar)
Happy uudz kale katunob! Not that it matters, but kasi is not an animal though mani is. And what makes the list given be elements when kiwen is not? I gather the critters click every year and the elements every seven. There are any number of tricks to get this more function ( the distant date proble...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:48 pm
- Forum: musi
- Topic: len lawa Nasinpin
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3175
Re: len lawa Nasinpin
Oh, you may not think I'm pretty, ah! maybe you feel this: I do not look good. a! ken la sina pilin ni: mi lukin ala pona. . ken la sina pilin E ni: mi pona lukin ala But don't judge on what you see, but o feel not on this: you see this. taso o pilin ala lon ni: sina lukin e ni. . o [judge] ala tan...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:41 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: questions in double:sentences
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3075
Re: questions in double:sentences
I don't understand the second example, which seems to say "Who knows that a man dances" '(reading 'seme' for 'semi'). I suppose we have to put the "how to" in somewhere: 'mije seme li sona e nasin ni: ona li tawa musi' or the like. The third is obscure. I guess that my having mon...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: convention for lipu toki pi pana (letters)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6141
Re: convention for lipu toki pi pana (letters)
There is much to be said for the ancient system "Gaius Tullius Cicero to Gaius Julius Caesar , Greetings". . In tp that comes out as something like 'Jan Silipu li pana e ni tawa Jan Mato. Toki'. Paul and others tended to elaborate on both names and on the greeting, but the basic pattern re...
- Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:45 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: Case
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18241
Re: Case
Btw, I thought that specific names of plants and animals were explicitly not to be tped. But the boundaries are getting thin, perhaps to the "anything goes" level. soweli Peli Tometika, anyone?
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:17 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Showing necessity or obligation in Toki Pona
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16858
Re: Showing necessity or obligation in Toki Pona
Presumably, if 'wile' comes from someone's desire, 'ken' comes from someone's permission or indifference. I think calling this intuitions/constructivism is stretching matters a bit.
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:26 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: jan pali
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2398
Re: jan pali
A a a pona!