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by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:00 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: toki pi jan suli
Replies: 11
Views: 10758

Re: toki pi jan suli

If you mean the second sentence to be (part of) what Pome says, you should use : not . "Human will is a hard front (shield? obstacle -- a real guess?) for god" I don't see where this is going, so I don't have context yet. Human will is a bronze wall between him and God. "between"...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki a
Replies: 5
Views: 5065

Re: toki a

'pilin lon' "genuine feelings" ? "correct thoughts"?

"My sleepy house goods are bad for me/I don't like them"?
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:45 pm
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: Guidelines for an ideographic code
Replies: 5
Views: 5950

Re: Guidelines for an ideographic code

This is starting to move toward 2-D writing, where the relative placement of "words" is part of the message. And maybe that is a part of where 2-D should go.
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:43 pm
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: A range of possibilities
Replies: 55
Views: 75120

Re: A range of possibilities

I'm not sure it is automatic (though it may be in these tp cases), since I have to fight (in English) daily with the questions of what opunctuation to use and what my choices mean. I asm not sure what counts for flavor (see the implications of punctuation coices in English). Very optimistic believer...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:38 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: sitelen linja en sitelen supa
Replies: 11
Views: 10456

Re: sitelen linja en sitelen supa

Old questions: do you need a 'pi' before 'nanpa' in this construction? should the 'nanpa n' attach to 'nimi'? In this case, I think the answer tio the last is "No," but this is aesthetics. The first is still up for grabs, with cases on each side. 'toki tawa' looks like a good way to assign...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:28 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: Rebus in tp
Replies: 7
Views: 6271

Re: Rebus in tp

Working backwards helps: in this case, 'on' has to be 'ona' (an advantage of a small vocab), so the l following is likely 'li' since nothing else will make this end as a sentence. But if that is a complete sentence ('lete' again is a sure thing), for the stuff before to be in the same sentence, it m...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:22 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: sona pona lili
Replies: 2
Views: 3896

Re: sona pona lili

o ni li lon.
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:21 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: toki pi jan suli
Replies: 11
Views: 10758

Re: toki pi jan suli

Since I am not quite sure what is going on here, some of my remarks may be way out of line. tenpo pini la jan suli Pome li toki e ni. wile jan li sinpin kiwen tawa jan sewi. If you mean the second sentence to be (part of) what Pome says, you should use : not . "Human will is a hard front (shiel...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:44 pm
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: Guidelines for an ideographic code
Replies: 5
Views: 5950

Re: Guidelines for an ideographic code

I suppose that 'li' la' and 'e' are the first to be compressed (not that there is much left to do), 'toki' and 'pona' follow soon after, and so on. I don't quite see the source of your symbols, however. You could, however now do some real rebus -- as, indeed, you suggest: writing 'pana' with the bre...
by janKipo
Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:35 pm
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: A range of possibilities
Replies: 55
Views: 75120

Re: A range of possibilities

tp uses punctuation for 1) ends of sentences (.?) 2) indicating that what follows is referent of an earlier 'ni' (:) and it has been suggested that commas be used a) to set off 'la' phrases and b) to set off prep phrases. None of these are very tasty but most of them are handy for understanding what...