I'm updating my Toki Pona lessons and I'm looking for good text examples

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Re: I'm updating my Toki Pona lessons and I'm looking for good text examples

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janTepanNetaPelin wrote: For example, Sonja didn't state that she's trying to be as simple as possible. At one point, she even combines two sentences with a comma (yielding a ", taso", by the way). It is preferable for me to call this simplicity "pona", which is a style, not grammar. "Keep Toki Pona as simple as possible!" is not a grammatical rule.
mi tawa!
jan Tepan o, toki!

"Simplify your thoughts. Less is more." pu page 9

This is not only a style. The grammar has to be simple as well.

Think about the German "Beamtendeutsch". Often It uses complicated grammar with nested subordinate sentences to hide a simple fact. Toki Pona has to be the opposite.

I' wrote at the beginning of my lessons: "Lawyers, bureaucrats, theologians and politicians are be warned of the side-effect of this language. "

mi tawa.
pona!
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Re: I'm updating my Toki Pona lessons and I'm looking for good text examples

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jan_Lope wrote:
"Simplify your thoughts. Less is more." pu page 9
Well played. :D

mi tawa.
https://github.com/stefichjo/toki-pona (mi sitelen e lipu ni pi toki pona)
mi jan Tepan. mi pu. mi weka e jan nasa Kipo e jan nasa Lope.
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Well, there are several notions of what tp is for -- all of them rooted in Sonja's uses of it and talk about it. I'm not sure about Lope's own ideas, except that he focuses on preventing anything he considers a complexity. That doesn't work for a lot of people in the community, including some that like the pseudoDaoist motifs.
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pona!
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toki!

A little update:
Chapter "Introduction" with link to the Toki Pona Parser.
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toki!
mi pona e nimi mute mi.

https://github.com/jan-Lope/Toki_Pona_l ... nglish.txt

https://github.com/jan-Lope/Toki_Pona_L ... eutsch.txt

You can use this dictionary with the software ding ( http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/ ).
If you need it for an other dictionary software please let me know it. I'll try to convert it.
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toki!
mi pona e lipu mi.

Apostrophe for the missing "be" and chapter "Introduction" increased.

https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_lessons_English/

https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_Lektionen_Deutsch/
pona!
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Any revision is welcome if it moves toward the community standard, but I fear Lope,s won't. I'm particularly worried about "the missing "be"", since tp has no ,"be" to be missing.
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toki!
mi pona e nimi mute mi.

I make an online version of my dictionary. You can make a Quiz by press "Random". You can search a string you type in the field. Or you can click on a word in the results.

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https:// ... onary.html

Technical background: The dictionary will be automatically generated from my Toki Pona lessons when they are updated. Thanks to travis-ci.org https://travis-ci.org/jan-Lope/Toki_Pon ... ns_English
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toki!

mi pona e nimi mute mi.

I've improved the chapter "la".

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https:// ... 0000000000

The lessons in English:
https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_lessons_English/

Die Lektionen in deutscher Sprache:
https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_Lektionen_Deutsch/

pona!
pona!
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