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jan Lesunijewusuki li seme?

jan SeliKiwen o musi lon kulupu pi toki pona!
mi jan Josuwa.
kama pona!

a ((short time) ago)...
recently
((tenpo lili) pini) la...
recently ?
(pini (pi tenpo lili)) la...
soon

in a ((short time) coming)...
soon
((tenpo lili) kama) la...
soon ?
(kama (pi tenpo lili)) la...
soon ?

jan pi toki pona o, toki! about a month ago i proposed in the Facebook group that poka be extended to mean near temporally. so tenpo kama poka la... would be soon , and tenpo pini poka la... would be recently . the reason for this: i witness too much confusion over tenpo kama lili la... and tenpo li...

fyi, this conversation is addicting, and i have a pile of dirty dishes which need my attention. i'm just gonna leave a few examples of my process here and come back to this at a later time. thanks. mi pilin pona: i am feeling/emotional/sensitive in a good/simple manner. mi pilin e pona: i make/cause...

for the same thing. i can see the nuanced ways in which they differ, but flipping the adj and adv here appears to give the same result: "i am happy." noun - adj - adv mi pilin pona. i am physically or emotionally sensitive in a good way. mi pona pilin. i am good in a physically or emotiona...

"mi lon pilin pona" also says to me that goodness/happiness is something external - a place to get to outside of myself. and in certain situations that may be the case. but when i'm happy, there are physical happy chemicals flowing through me. so for reasons i've mentioned, "mi pilin ...

"sina pona ala pona moku?" could also mean "are you good or not good at eating?" using E-o, between "cxu vi mangxis bone?" and "cxu vi bonigxis mangxe?", though i feel the former is more intuitive, they are essentially the same question. "sina moku ala mo...

i think it's great that you put so much thought into this stuff. :) Taking 'pona' as an adverb to 'pilin' has the usual result of giving an evaluation of performance, which is clearly not intended. i think that depends on how you define "performance". take for example this exchange: "...