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- Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:43 am
- Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
- Topic: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"
- Replies: 20
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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’...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:43 am
- Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
- Topic: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 29917
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.
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: musi
- Topic: Translating music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6857
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 ...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:11 pm
- Forum: musi
- Topic: Translating music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6857
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...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:38 am
- Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
- Topic: Left, right, numbers and "The Stuff of Thought"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 29917
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...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:31 am
- Forum: musi
- Topic: A few haiku of Matsuo Basho in Toki Pona
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19263
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...
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: musi
- Topic: mi ante e toki sitelen pi mi
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5582
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 ...
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:41 am
- Forum: sitelen toki
- Topic: thai script for toki pona
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12901
Re: thai script for toki pona
Not altogether a promising script for tp.
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:38 am
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9743
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).
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: musi
- Topic: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6511
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).