Best way to contrive community activity?

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Best way to contrive community activity?

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ma pi toki pona has gotten rather quiet for a few months. I'd say that a good percentage of the chatter is people learning the language and contrive translation exercises as a side effect of learning the language. After that though, it gets harder to justify spending time translating more.

Is there any sort of information that people would prefer to get via reading toki pona? I suppose people might prefer to get their directions to the train station in Esperanto (when abroad) or they might prefer to get their legal contracts written in Lojban.

If there was a variety of information that people preferred to hear about in toki pona, then that would help generate content to keep the discussion going.
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on IRC new people show up time to time but there is not much talk in toki pona.

on Second Life, we are trying to make some advertissment and get people but is not easy. But we use the language.

on tokilili, all seems calm.

on this forum, people continues to write in english as usually…
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I could imagine taking a vow to speak only Esperanto and not feeling pain (other than I'd have to actually learn Esperanto)

kin la I should do ni: mi kepeken e toki pona when it seems suitable. mi toki kepeken Inli when there is something that is too pali suli ike for toki pona. Sort of like how jan pi ma Filipin do with toki Takalo en toki Inli.

And when I do post a longer toki pona text, I often get no response, so the problem remains, what sitelin sin li ken open e activities sin pi kulupu pi toki pona.
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tenpo seme la mi sitelen kepeken toki pona? tenpo la mi wile toki e lon la mi sitelen kepeken toki pona. tenpo la mi wile pona e pilin mi la mi sitelen kepeken toki pona.
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tenpo seme la sina wile toki e lon? Speak existence? speak an address? speak the truth? nimi 'lon' li sona e mute. jan li ken ante e sona ni sama ni: lon ali, nimi lon, toki lon, en nimi ante. taso sina wile toki e toki lon tason kepeken toki pona la ni li pona mute.
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life is moli ala. or maybe tenpo pi moli ala. The other alternatives, like lon, wawa either have problems or work well only in certain scenarios.

telo jan li pakala li jo ala e wawa. He's mortally wounded.
nanpa 42 li pana sona tawa wile sona pi lon en ma ale en ijo ale. 42 is the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.
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janMato wrote:Is there any sort of information that people would prefer to get via reading toki pona?
tp seems to suit well everyday life talking, simple things.
janMato wrote: And when I do post a longer toki pona text, I often get no response,
I don't know if it is a side effect of toki pona and/or internet ( i think internet ) but long texts tends to not be readen, short texts are more efficient. Hence the success of twitter.

jan li lukin ala e toki suli lon ilo sona tan ni: toki suli li suli mute li ike. mi pilin e ni: toki lili li lili li pona. jan li wile lukin e ona.
ilo sona la ijo mute li lon. toki lili li ken pana e sona tawa jan.
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pilin mi li ante lili li ni: tenpo pini la mi lukin e sitelen pi jan Mato. sitelen ni li toki e ni: toki pona la sitelen en toki li pona mute. taso toki pona la sona e sitelen pi jan ante li ike mute. toki pona la jan mute li wile ala sitelen tan ni.
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sona PI sitelen pi jan ante. tan ni la toki pona la jan...
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Jan KoAla wrote:pilin mi li ante lili li ni: tenpo pini la mi lukin e sitelen pi jan Mato. sitelen ni li toki e ni: toki pona la sitelen en toki li pona mute. taso toki pona la sona e sitelen pi jan ante li ike mute. toki pona la jan mute li wile ala sitelen tan ni.
mi pilin e ni. ken la ni li tan e ni: mi jan sin. mi sona e toki sina. sitelen kepeken toki pona li pona tawa jan mute, taso ni li ike tawa ona mute: sona e sitelen pi jan ante.

ken la ni li tan e ni: mi jan sin, taso mi pilin kin e ni.

Edit: That being said, though, my favourite thing about toki pona is trying to understand what others are saying. The language has been compared to charades, and I think that's very apt. Another good game comparison that could be made is Pictionary: one presents a symbol (or in tp a string of words) that is clear in their own mind as to the meaning, and others have to interpret what it represents.
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