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by janKipo
Tue Aug 27, 2019 1:00 pm
Forum: pali pona | actions and lifestyle | agado kaj vivstilo
Topic: ma kili lili mi
Replies: 10
Views: 86344

Re: ma kili lili mi

Not just ‘sewi supa’ but ‘lon sewi supa’ “above the plain” New here? ‘taso’ in sentence first position is probably the oldest and most common use “but”. In this sense it cannot occur inside a sentence, so those uses are “only” (or, possibly, “alone”). I’m not sure that was what was meant. It’s hard ...
by janKipo
Sat Aug 24, 2019 7:40 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: On importance of "please" and "thank you"
Replies: 3
Views: 8521

Re: On importance of "please" and "thank you"

“Please” is assumed with all requests. “Thank you” and “You’re welcome” are both ‘pona’. These are old established expressions. If you want to be fancy (but why?), you could say ‘sina wile la’ or ‘ni li pona tawa sina la’ for “Please”. But, as noted, all this has been dealt with from very early on.
by janKipo
Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:14 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: About date, days of week, and counting
Replies: 13
Views: 16459

Re: About date, days of week, and counting

But tp is a conlang based significantly on something else and trying hard to not be sos.
by janKipo
Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:09 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: Folgore checks in
Replies: 2
Views: 6146

Re: Folgore checks in

kama pona!
by janKipo
Thu Aug 22, 2019 7:41 pm
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: Toki Pona and ISO 639
Replies: 8
Views: 18736

Re: Toki Pona and ISO 639

Well, of course there are several tp codes that need (or can use) custom keyboards, but tha has little to do wit tp. As for not being as useful, I am not sure what that is based on, since I use it for all sorts of things (not Philosophy nor Astrophysics yet but other fairly serious stuff). And, on t...
by janKipo
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:08 am
Forum: sitelen toki
Topic: Writing Toki Pona in the Hebrew alphabet
Replies: 7
Views: 14927

Re: Writing Toki Pona in the Hebrew alphabet

Since this is all just a code for tp, it doesn’t matter how well it correspond to the original (whatever that may be in this case) so long as it works for tp. You can even write it left to right or throw it Arabic or Japanese. Knock your lights out!
by janKipo
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:03 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: About date, days of week, and counting
Replies: 13
Views: 16459

Re: About date, days of week, and counting

Tidy number system; just too Eurocentric perhaps (but mine is totally English) and needs development into higher numbers.

‘mun’ means, basically, "bright light in the night sky” without regard to what it may be outside our immediate perception of it.
by janKipo
Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:07 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: mi jan Lane
Replies: 5
Views: 7543

Re: mi jan Lane

I would have out ‘seme’ right after ‘lukin’, closer to where it modifies. It is not a PPP, so shouldn’t be at the end. ‘moku kon pi kepeken toki pona. (modifier of more than one word). Not sure what you want here, but “smoking a pipe”(from the picture), “smoking a cigarette’ wuld be ‘moku kon pi kep...
by janKipo
Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:57 pm
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: mi jan Lane
Replies: 5
Views: 7543

Re: mi jan Lane

‘mokun’ =‘moku’ prob ‘supa lili pi monsi weka’ “stool with an absent butt”? ‘moku seli li lon supa moku’. (prep phrase can’t be subject.) ‘mm en mm LI wile moku’ no ‘e’ with prepositions, so ‘mm li tawa tomo lili poka kepeken open’ (prob ‘lupa’ would be more natural or ‘lupa open’) ‘tenpo ni LA’ (co...
by janKipo
Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:36 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: mi jan Lane
Replies: 5
Views: 7543

Re: mi jan Lane

kama pona! A good start, but tp sentences need overt subjects, so I assume ‘MI jan Tosi.’ (no ‘li’ with ‘mi’) ‘la’ phrases only go at the beginning of sentences, so period after ‘Tosi', the 'tenpo ni la mi ...’ or you can shift the ‘la’ phrase in front to a terminal ‘lon’ phrase: ‘mi lon ma.... Tosi...