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- Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:37 am
- Forum: sin pi toki pona
- Topic: T-shirts available!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 55381
Re: T-shirts available!
This ad is 10 years old. I doubt that the items are still available or being made. The glow-in- the-dark models never appears, for example.
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:09 pm
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: mi jan Ale!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9592
Re: mi jan Ale!
Napoli li lon ma lili Polita anu seme? kama sona tawa toki pona. ‘kama sina pona’ is hard to parse “ Become you well” or so, maybe. ‘Kama pona tawa sina’ is easier to understand. But you are coming in, not already in, and greeting, so ‘toki’ is your line and us insiders say “Wecome.”.There are simil...
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:23 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Rilke, "Dirait-on": translation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7190
Re: Rilke, "Dirait-on": translation
I don’t do poetry, so this is just about grammar, not scansion or rhetoric. I don’t know what you mean by the dash; it has been used in various ways by different people but the present use is not clear. "becoming water” or some such isn’t very clear eitheer but may work as poetry. ‘selo’ is goo...
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:39 pm
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13362
Re: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
Time spent with tpis not wasted. It is clearly the most successful small language so you can learn a lot about what works (in general, not particular items, perhaps). On the other hand, it has many flaws (often in particular, but also in general) so that you can get an idea what to avoid. One thing ...
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:43 am
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13362
Re: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
Preaching to the choir. But the minimalism remains as defining tp. So, adding a new word takes some arguing, though I don’t know just who you have to convince. Most efforts have failed, as have most arguments to get rid of words, which ought to be easier. Good luck!
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:34 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: nena suli pi suli pona li lon ala - Ain't no mountain high enough
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6881
Re: nena suli pi suli pona li lon ala - Ain't no mountain high enough
The question about vocative + imperative is currently disputed. The full form is always safe, the abbreviated may be understood but misinterpreted.
‘ken e’ “cause to be able, enable, remove any forces against” ‘ken’ as a noun means, “freedom, etc.”
‘ken e’ “cause to be able, enable, remove any forces against” ‘ken’ as a noun means, “freedom, etc.”
- Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13362
Re: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
Well, ‘sike’ is hard to do in a compact form. ‘Leko’ is slightly easier but isn’t a real tp word. Both of these have a fair number of other uses as well. But then ‘sanku’ could function for “wedge” and “slope” and probably several other things if it were introduced. So the basic problem is just that...
- Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:52 am
- Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
- Topic: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13362
Re: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
Nice reasoning but it is not clear that we need a word for triangles at the basic level. Surely ‘ijo (or ‘sijelo' or some such word) pi poki si (tu wan)’ would do for those rare occasions when we need the word.
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:22 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: nena suli pi suli pona li lon ala - Ain't no mountain high enough
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6881
Re: nena suli pi suli pona li lon ala - Ain't no mountain high enough
Don’t need to repeat ‘suli’ ‘nena pi suli pona’ is "a high enough mountain” vocative comes before the sentence, so start with ‘jan lili o,’ (strange rule but apparently firm.) same throughout. ‘jan lili o’ probably not quite what ‘babe’ is about; maybe ‘jan suwi’ or so. prob ‘anpa pona’ for “lo...
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:13 am
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: "When" in Toki Pona
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7301
Re: "When" in Toki Pona
Not knowing how the sentence goes on, I can only guess that this is coordinating and so a ‘la’ phrase.