Toki Pona news: new website, upcoming book, announcements from the language's creator
Tokiponaj novaĵoj: nova TTT-ejo, venonta libro, aperonta libro, anoncoj de la kreinto de la lingvo
jan_Lope wrote:lon monsi pi nimi ilo la sitelen ":" li lon.
* mi lukin e:sina. (I see you.)
* mi en:sina li:sona e:ona. (You and I know her.)
jan Tepan, o toki!
It is not clear to me what is your aim. Do you like to change Toki Pona or is it an other version of tp++ viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2495 ?[/quote]
jan Lope o,
I try to apply a mark-up for Toki Pona as described in the official book. It's for analysing purposes only. I don't want to change the language. In normal Toki Pona I wouldn't use any of this mark-up.
janTepanNetaPelin wrote:
I try to apply a mark-up for Toki Pona as described in the official book. It's for analysing purposes only.
Similar to tp++ of jan Mato?
I'm not too familiar with Mato's tp++. But if you replace ":", ".", "-", "=" with white spaces, then you get normal Toki Pona.
I'm considering removing ":" even from example sentences. (I use ":" denote a particle.) The good thing about particles is that they always behave in a predictable way.
jan_Lope wrote:But if you remove ":" and "." the punctuation marks will be lost.
I modified my interpunctuation (and explained it in the grammar document, see link in the signature). I hope it's easier to digest now. I don't use ":" between particle and its argument anymore and I changed "." to "+" between pre-verb and verb. (I also removed "=" between preposition and its argument.)
In the process I explained the usage of "," as it is used in pu.
Since Tepan doesn't see my comments, I won't go into details about what is wrong with his dialect, even from a conservative point of view. I just not the usual problems, not the weird ones: he uses 'pi' with only one following word, especially 'pi ni:' for just 'ni:', although he also says that the 'pi' should disappear in that place. He tells the usual tale about 'pi' joining nouns and, as usual, follows it with examples using adjectives (called "nouns" for the occasion). And so on. He is very judgemental about usage, disallowing many common practices (called slang or worse). Interesting to read, but not to heed.