Tamenik wrote:kulupu pi toki pona o, toki! mi sin mute mute tawa toki pona. ken la sina lukin e ni tan pali mi (anu pakala mi) pi lawa nimi ona. o pona e pakala mi lon toki mi. mi wile pona ali ni: mi ken. sin la mi tawa seme tawa ni: mi sona sin li toki sin e toki pona? sona ali li pona tawa mi. pona![/i]
kama pona kin! Welcome.
I think I'm the only one that thinks so, but reduplicated adjectives require a pi and the repeated word modifies the previous adjective. We don't have any evidence about what reduplication means, but pi phrases are well understood. Reduplication is not productive in toki pona for any systematic purpose. So:
mi sin pi mute mute. I'm really new.
mi sin pi mute lili. I'm kind of new.
mi sin pi lili mute. I'm not really new at all.
Also, kin the word that gives a phrase an emphatic sense and is always correct-- no controversy.
ken la sina lukin e ni tan pali mi (anu pakala mi) pi lawa nimi ona.
"maybe you see this from my work or mistakes of it's head name."
I'm not following you here, even after reading the English.
lon sitelen mi is better than lon toki mi, since words are physically on a page, but speech kind of an abstract place.
Currently active places for using tp in a sort of conversational way:
2nd life
irq (especially if jan Kute is there)
twitter -check out the account of @janMato
tokilili - requires manual approval of accounts now, but 100% of the users there are there to use toki pona.
You can find the links at my fan website:
http://tokipona.net/tp/ look for external resources.