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by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:35 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: A question to Buddhists
Replies: 10
Views: 29837

Re: A question to Buddhists

No clear that you can fuse imperatives, i.e., that ‘o kama jo e ijo ala li lon e (insa pi) lawa sina’ is grammatical. In adition, ‘lon’ is a prepsoition, so doesn’t take ‘e’. maybe just ‘o jo e ijo ala lon insa pi lawa sina’ “Empty your mind” (roughly, a ‘kama’ would probably help) Not sure what ‘lo...
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:22 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Replies: 11
Views: 23810

Re: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Noted. messing with this does that so long as you continue to be guided by tp rules, which just don’t work ever.
by janKipo
Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:20 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
Replies: 8
Views: 9659

Re: toki! mi jan Kaja

Sorry, I came in late on this and missed the beginning. so, Kaja o, kama pona. sina sitelen pona kepeken toki pona. taso o lukin e ni: jan li toki e ni: toki kepeken tok Inli (e ante). jan li toki ala e ni: toki e toki Ini (en ante). ante la pona. tawa Lopata: ‘sama sina la’ (‘sama’ is a preposition...
by janKipo
Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:00 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!
Replies: 3
Views: 6470

Re: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!

I confess I cannot stand to read very many sntences of Gibran at a sitting, so this mya be badly split up, dependon on how well it goes as tp. ‘wawa ona li kama tan poki suli pi ali kon. wawa ni li ali mute li wawa mute tan ni. taso ona li selo e wawa ni kepeken toki pona ona.’ (No KG,so bearable fo...
by janKipo
Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:46 pm
Forum: sona pona
Topic: mani anpa li pona
Replies: 6
Views: 9328

Re: mani anpa li pona

Well, yes,, this is a problem but mainly an English one, not a tp one. In tp, ‘kin’ is used to emphasize words and what they are emphasized for depends on context. So, the stress may be on similarity “Mali tli tawa; Paki’ ‘mi kin’. “Mary is going to Paris” “Me, too”. Or it may be for contrast ‘Mali ...
by janKipo
Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Replies: 11
Views: 23810

Re: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

This goes into the file, better than many, worse than some: too long, occasionally too complex. Continues to try and mix the tp system with a real number syste, with usually muddling results. Nothing strikingly new, except ‘anpa’, which isn’t oo wonderful.
by janKipo
Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:24 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
Replies: 8
Views: 9659

Re: toki! mi jan Kaja

prob just ‘lon (ma) Nusilan’ since you haven’t gone anywhere. ‘nimi ante pi ma Atelola’, not a verb-object construction here. “Aoteoroa’ is open to a number of tp versionss, though yours is not an ovious one . The simplest is probably ‘A(jo)telowa“ They named this for one time people of New Zealand”...
by janKipo
Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:53 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: mi jan Ale!
Replies: 6
Views: 9487

Re: mi jan Ale!

also, no ‘li’ after ‘mi’when it stands alone as subject.
by janKipo
Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:11 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
Replies: 11
Views: 13174

Re: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku

Have used ‘nena’ and ‘pini’ fairly effectively.
by janKipo
Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:03 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Rilke, "Dirait-on": translation
Replies: 4
Views: 7113

Re: Rilke, "Dirait-on": translation

If the water metaphor works, it is very good. If not, something from ‘weka e’ might still work,, but is rather prosaic, as are lines based on ‘taso’ “alone”. ‘sama’ is always right but ‘ona’ may be acceptable in some cases (‘mi’ and ‘sina’ seem to be, maybe even ‘ona’). English is quite clear that ‘...