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janSilipu wrote:Knowledge is nearby. Depends on how close you think out there is. I am a pessimist.

"lon" for knowledge is contrintuitive for me (IMHO).

janKipo wrote:the truth is out there. (you mean "existence is absent"?)

lawa mi li kama seli... li kama suli

"lon li weka" means "truth is out there"? I'd say "sona li lon poka" for that.

jan_Anti wrote:nimi "kon sewi ike" anu "jan sewi ike" li pona mute tawa mi.

jan anpa li sama

nimi "lipu" li pona tawa mi. tenpo pini (en tenpo ni kin) la, jan li sitelen e lipu kepeken ilo sitelen. tenpo ni la, jan li sitelen e lipu pi lon ilo Intene kepeken ilo sitelen. nimi "sitelen" (write/type) li sama. nimi "ilo sitelen" (pencil/keyboard) li sama kin. tan...

does every language call it something like a box? At least, now it's not a box, doesn't look like box etc. I'd like to be more context-aware in that case. Leter may be "toki" when it's conversational, "ijo pana" when not read, and so. And "lipu" for website is completel...

pona. taso kulupu nimi pini tu li pona lili tawa mi. musi li kepeken e nasin "-.-.-.-." "A mi LApe E jan LIli." taso: "JAN liLI li LApe POna. MAma LI luKIN e Ona." "liLI" en "luKIN" li ike. Last line variant: ali o lon ala ona. I've heard that 'lon ...

mi pilin e ni: kulupu nimi ni li lon ala. mi kin li alasa e ona. lon. toki Inli la nimi 'tomo palisa' li ken nimi 'sky-scraper'. kin la ona li ken nimi 'tower'. lipu pi nasin sewi Kolisu li toki e ni: "mi mute o pali e ma tomo e tomo palisa suli." ("Go to, let us build us a city and ...

Actually, you can get away with a lot in English without clearly being ungrammatical (I suspect Yoda pushes the envelope a bit). tp is much more rigorous and so we need to think through possibilities. And I think the answer is that we can shift VP around, keeping the 'li' and DO keeping the 'e' and...

janKipo wrote:lon li weka

What does it mean? "absence is exists" for me

e ni, mi pilin: kepeken nasin ni, jan Jota li toki. "wawa, sina kama. e poka pimeja, mi pilin, pi lon insa sina." (“Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”) As long as you keep the comma, I think it'll work. It's not like Yoda-talk is grammatical in English either. pona. ...