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- Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:35 pm
- Forum: sona pona
- Topic: A question to Buddhists
- Replies: 10
- Views: 30498
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...
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:22 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24165
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.
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:20 pm
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9777
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...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:00 pm
- Forum: musi
- Topic: mi ante e lipu "The Prophet/El Profeta" tawa toki pona!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6534
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...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:46 pm
- Forum: sona pona
- Topic: mani anpa li pona
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9436
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 ...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:34 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Extremely large numbers. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24165
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.
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:24 pm
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: toki! mi jan Kaja
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9777
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”...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: mi jan Ale!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9581
Re: mi jan Ale!
also, no ‘li’ after ‘mi’when it stands alone as subject.
- 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: 13339
Re: Word Idea For Triangle - Sanku
Have used ‘nena’ and ‘pini’ fairly effectively.
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:03 pm
- Forum: kama sona toki
- Topic: Rilke, "Dirait-on": translation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7182
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 ‘...