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Fortuna Fortuna, Fortuna, Fortune bona primitus Fortune bona primitus voluntas est inversa, In meque michi penitus novercatur aversa. Nam ferre scimus eum Fortune clipeum. Fate Fate! Fate! Highest good fate, Highest good fate, you favor has gone away On me, my remorse, I'm cursed, loathed, But now, ...

akesi ala = soweli, or de-monsterification. No space for pi. alasa ale anpa = bottom all hunt. Vacuuming up all the fish on the sea floor? alasa pi ale anpa = universal-bottom hunt. A package travel to Australia to hunt each soweli and akesi? ante awen esun ijo = thingy - mercantile - permanent dif...

The Hittite King Hattusili I's Last Words. 1. "Hashtayar" li meli "Labarna". Jan Lawa Suli "Labarna" li toki e jan "Hashtayar" e ni: meli o sina weka ala e mi. sina o, mi lawa sina. 2. mi wile e ni: jan lawa suli li toki ala ken e ike tawa meli pi ona sama. ja...

Here is my synthesis: luka waso pi sina li kalama ala kalama? tenpo la mi pilin e ni: mi ken kute e ona sina, tenpo pini lili la sina pana e lukin lape mute pi kiwen suno telo tawa mi, tenpo kama la sina pana sona ala pana sona e ni: lukin lape mi li sona e seme? alternatives for mercury: telo moli ...

luka waso pi sina li kama kalama anu seme? tenpo mute ala la mi pilin e ni: mi kute e ona sina tenpo ante la sina kama lon e lukin lape mute pi kiwen telo jaki tawa mi tenpo kama la sina kama sona e ni: lukin lape pi mi li sona e seme anu seme? Do your wings make a sound? Sometimes I swear I can hea...

Before I re-invent the wheel, and poorly, has anyone already translated the Swadesh list into toki pona? My first look makes me think each word on the Swadesh list could be translated many ways into tp. I'm trying to reconstruct proto-toki-pona. It looks like the toki ponans were neighbors of the pr...