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Re : pi vs jo

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sina jo e ilo ni !--- En date de : Ven 15.5.09, Xavier Aubuchon-Mendoza <xavieram@yahoo.com> aécrit :De: Xavier Aubuchon-Mendoza <xavieram@yahoo.com>Objet: [tokipona] pi vs joÀ: tokipona@yahoogroups.comDate: Vendredi 15 Mai 2009, 9h53Forgive my newb question, but I'm trying to work some stuff out to understandthis better...Reading lesson 11 (http://bknight0. myweb.uga. edu/toki/ lesson/lesson11. html)I see that you can use "pi" to indicate ownership of something.ilo ni li pi sina. -- This tool is yours.But... doesn't jo cover this already?sina jo ilo ni -- You own this tool.Is it a case of having multiple ways of saying the same thing? Will one workbetter in some cases than others? Or am I just not understanding this very well?[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
jan_sewe

Re: Re : pi vs jo

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anu:ni li ilo sina.kepeken nasin mute la, sina ken toki e ijo sama!--- In tokipona@yahoogroups.com, Francois Schwicker <bubi4919@...> wrote:>> sina jo e ilo ni !>> --- In tokipona@yahoogroups.com, Xavier Aubuchon-Mendoza <xavieram@...> wrote:>> Forgive my newb question, but I'm trying to work some stuff out to understandthis better...>> Reading lesson 11 (http://bknight0. myweb.uga. edu/toki/ lesson/lesson11.html) I see that you can use "pi" to indicate ownership of something.>> ilo ni li pi sina. -- This tool is yours.>> But... doesn't jo cover this already?>> sina jo ilo ni -- You own this tool.>> Is it a case of having multiple ways of saying the same thing? Will one workbetter in some cases than others? Or am I just not understanding this very well?
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