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toki! mi Lejanto!

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toki! mi Lejanto! mi jan Pasila! That's all I can say in Toki Pona fornow. I'm taking Pije's "o kama sona e toki pona lessons"<http://bknight0.myweb.uga.edu/toki/lesson/lesson0.html> and havealready a few questions. Please be so kind and answer to me:1) I've tokiponized my name, Leandro (pronounced, in Portuguese,leh-AN-dro) to Lejanto (which I think should be pronounced le-JAN-to),according to the "Tokiponization guidelines" in<http://bknight0.myweb.uga.edu/toki/learn/tpize.html>. Is it correct?2) And by the way, I've taken a look at the names of coutries in<http://www.tokipona.org/ma.html> and found out my country's name,Brazil, is "Pasila" in Toki Pona. Do you guys and girls know why"Pasila", not "Pasilo" or "Pasile" or anything else? And should I sayPA-si-la (following the rule "the accent is on the first syllable") orpa-SI-la (following the tokiponization guideline "use the colloquialpronunciation that locals actually and commonly use" -- forBrazilians, and Portuguese speakers, say bra-ZEEL, not BRA-zeel)?3) Still on pronunciation and locations (I do want to speak Toki Pona,rather than write it, and teach it my four-year-old daughter), how doI say America's name, Amelika, and other names with more than threesyllables? A-me-li-ka? a-ME-li-ka?I thank you all for the attention given.LejantoSAY NO TO PIRACY: USE FREE SOFTWARE!
Rick Miller

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jan Lejanto o! kama pona!You did pretty well for not having read the lessons yet. :-)On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:12, Leandro Silva Abreu<ls_abreu@yahoo.com.br> wrote:> toki! mi Lejanto!"toki! mi jan Lejanto!"> mi jan Pasila!"mi jan pi ma Pasila!"Proper names like "Lejanto" and "Pasila" are treated as adjectives...so they have to come after a noun which tells what they are. Thus"jan Lejanto" and "ma Pasila".
AJK

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The continent America is called ma Amelika or ma suli Amelika, withthe accent on the first syllable, as always (and the United States arecalled ma Mewika, also with the accent on the first).2008/9/24 Rick Miller <rdmiller3@gmail.com>:> jan Lejanto o! kama pona!>> You did pretty well for not having read the lessons yet. :-)>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:12, Leandro Silva Abreu> <ls_abreu@yahoo.com.br> wrote:>> toki! mi Lejanto!>> "toki! mi jan Lejanto!">>> mi jan Pasila!>> "mi jan pi ma Pasila!">> Proper names like "Lejanto" and "Pasila" are treated as adjectives...> so they have to come after a noun which tells what they are. Thus> "jan Lejanto" and "ma Pasila".>> ------------------------------------>> Yahoo! Groups Links>>>>--http://espe.ranto.nlhttp://lost.eu/78c6e
Leandro Silva Abreu

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toki!> Proper names like "Lejanto" and "Pasila" are treated as> adjectives... so they have to come after a noun which tells what> they are. Thus "jan Lejanto" and "ma Pasila".You mean I should say "mi jan Lejanto" for "I'm Leandro" and "mi maPasila jan" for "I'm Brazilian"?Thanks!jan Lejanto(Leandro Silva Abreu)
Liogab11

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More like "mi jan pi ma (country)"For example: mi jan Pusa. mi jan pi ma Pilipina. Good luck...--- On Thu, 27/11/08, Leandro Silva Abreu <ls_abreu@yahoo.com.br> wrote:From: Leandro Silva Abreu <ls_abreu@yahoo.com.br>Subject: [tokipona] Re: toki! mi Lejanto!To: tokipona@yahoogroups.comDate: Thursday, 27 November, 2008, 10:29 PMtoki!> Proper names like "Lejanto" and "Pasila" are treated as> adjectives.. . so they have to come after a noun which tells what> they are. Thus "jan Lejanto" and "ma Pasila".You mean I should say "mi jan Lejanto" for "I'm Leandro" and "mi maPasila jan" for "I'm Brazilian"?Thanks!jan Lejanto(Leandro Silva Abreu) New Email names for you!Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail.Hurry before someone else does!http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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