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jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:16 am
by janPeka
jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala li kulupu ilo tawa moku ala pi telo nasa. jan "Bill W" en jan pi pona sijelo "Bob" li open e kulupu ni. ona tu li pali e nasin tawa ni: jan li moku ala e telo nasa li wile ala moku e ni li kama sona e nasin sin. nimi pi nasin ni li nasin pi tawa mute.

nasin pi tawa mute

1. mi mute li kama sona e ni: mi mute li jo e wawa ala tawa ni: mi mute li utala e telo nasa. mi mute li kama sona e ni kin: mi mute li ken ala lawa e ali.
2. mi mute li kama sona e ni: ijo suli li ken pona e lawa pi mi mute lili.
3. mi mute li kama wile e ni: jan sewi pi mi mute li kama lawa e ali pi mi mute.
4. mi mute li pilin ike ala li pali e sitelen tawa ni: mi mute li lukin e mi mute.
5. mi mute li toki tawa jan sewi li toki tawa mi mute li toki tawa jan pi sama ala e ma pi ijo ike pi mi mute.
6. mi mute li wile e ni: jan sewi li pona e ijo ike ali ni.
7. mi mute li toki tawa jan sewi e ni: o pona e ijo ike pi mi mute.
8. mi mute li pali e sitelen pi jan mute li kama wile pona e ni: tenpo pini la mi mute li pali ike tawa jan ni.
9. mi mute li pona tawa jan ni ali li ike ala tawa jan ni ali.
10. mi mute li pali kin e sitelen pi mi mute. mi mute li ike la mi mute li toki e ni.
11. mi mute li toki sewi li pilin sewi tawa kama sona e jan sewi pi mi mute. mi mute li toki tawa jan sewi e ni taso: mi mute o kama sona e wile pi jan sewi o kama ken pali e ni.
12. mi mute li lon tan nasin ni la mi mute li wile pana e nasin tawa jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa la mi mute li wile pali e nasin ni tawa ali.

Re: jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 10:30 am
by jan Pinsen
Keep in mind that "good/healthy body" would be "sijelo pona", not "pona sijelo"; same for "sijelo ike" rather than "ike sijelo". Aside from that, I didn't look through all of it, but I could recognize at least the first of the (in my mind not so good) twelve rules/steps for this sort of program, so good job in that regard.

Re: jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:08 pm
by janKipo
'pona' in 'pona sijelo' is a verb to which 'sijelo' is object "cure the body", so the jan is a doctor. Similarly, 'ike sijelo' means "harm the body". But it points out the problem with long NPs like this. tp can do worse than this but it prefers to break such strings into separate sentences (relative clauses as it were), to be more French than German. So the start here goes more tply as. kulupu AA li kulupu ilo e jan mute ni. jan li moku mute e telo nasa. tan ni la ona li ike e sijelo sama. ona li kulupu tawa ni: ona li moku ala e telo nasa. and so on as here.

nasin pi tawa noka luka luka tu

The Steps are rather loosely translated.

Re: jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 3:06 pm
by jan Pinsen
Are you sure about this? It reads more clearly as an NP to me... anyway, why no "e" if the "sijelo" is the direct object, as you wrote it in your alternative? Anyway, it could function either way in this sentence: as a VP with the "e" and as an NP with the words switched around, I think. Also in that first sentence, I wuold be inclined to change that last "pi" to "e", right? "[...] to not drink alcohol (anymore)", with alcohol as the direct object.

Re: jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:57 pm
by janKipo
One of the reasons to use sentences rather than modifier strinngs is precisely because sentences can be more exact about the role of words. You cannot mark a word as DO in a modifier string, since 'e' is not allowed there. You have to rely on context and an intuition about what is meant (which is pretty much known here). The 'telo nasa' at the end is ondeed a direct object of the verb 'moku ala', but cannot be marked woth 'e' because it has been folded into the modifier string of a NP (as in the second version). The rulesfor forming NPs from sentences are rather crude, but that is partly because tp doesn't do it even as much as English.p

Re: jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:37 pm
by jan Pinsen
Alright, I understand. In that case, I agree with your idea to split the whole thing up in separate propositions as per your example.

Re: jan mute pi ike sijelo tan telo nasa pi nimi ala

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:33 pm
by soweliPeka
sina jan Peka.
mi soweli Peka.
ni li pona tawa mi.