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Tomaniki
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a! mi kama e tomo.

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o lukin!

mi pilin ike tan ni: tenpo mute la mi toki ala jan pi toki pona. 'tenpo mute' li sike suno.

tenpo ni la mi kama e tomo. sike suno ni la mi lukin ala e seme?

lipu ni li pini.
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Re: a! mi kama e tomo.

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Tomaniki wrote:o lukin!

mi pilin ike tan ni: tenpo mute la mi toki ala TAWA jan pi toki pona. NIMI 'tenpo mute' li SONA E sike suno.

tenpo ni la mi kama [e] tomo. sike suno ni la mi lukin ala e seme?

lipu ni li pini.
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Re: a! mi kama e tomo.

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mi kin. tenpo suno ale la ala li pali lon ma pi toki pona. **

Things get busy when some news is contrived.

ken la ni li sin. tenpo lili la kulupu pi toki sin li open lon ma Texas. (next conlang conference)


** Every day in ma pi toki pona is a slow news day.
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Re: a! mi kama e tomo.

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jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike.

taso mun jelo la mi sona e toki Esewanto. Mi nun povas paroli gxin bonege. Nu, tion cxi mi pensas.

jan Mato o, kulupu pi toki sin la seme li kama? ona mute li pali e seme?
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Re: a! mi kama e tomo.

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"jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike."
jan Kipo, thanks! If I don't use the *many times*, my toki pona speech is bad.

I think you want to move tenpo mute to a la phrase, not a direct object phrase.
taso mun jelo la mi sona e toki Esewanto. Mi nun povas paroli gxin bonege. Nu, tion cxi mi pensas.
But during the yellow moon, I studied Esperanto (Epalanto).
jan Mato o, kulupu pi toki sin la seme li kama? ona mute li pali e seme?
jan Mato, as for the conlang conference, what is arriving? They do what?

jan sona mute li pana e toki sona li musi lon ma tomo Texas.

lipu lupa ni li pana e sona tawa sina: http://conlang.org/language-creation-conference/lcc5/
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kama is better than pali for things happening.
"using much time" is OK English, I'm not sure about tp. It is hard to make this point with a la construction.
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jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike.
jan Kipo, thanks! If I don't use the *many times*, my toki pona speech is bad.
I think you want to move tenpo mute to a la phrase, not a direct object phrase.
"using much time" is OK English, I'm not sure about tp. It is hard to make this point with a la construction.
sina o, pona! I have to relearn a lot of toki pona. I am making many errors.

For this particular phrase, I was trying to say something along the lines of:
Since I haven't used toki pona for a long while, my toki pona is a little rusty.

Can I use 'la' twice in a sentence?
tenpo mute la mi kepeken ala e toki pona la toki pona mi li ike.

If not, how should I construct this? Something like this, perhaps:
toki pona mi li ike tan ni: tenpo mute la mi kepeken ala e toki pona.

Thanks again for your corrections.

sina o, pona! Mi devas relerni multe de Tokipono. Mi faras multajn erarojn.

Por tio cxi partikulara frazo, mi provis diri ion kiel:
Ek mi ne uzis Tokiponon dum longa tempo, mia Tokipono ne plu estas pona.

Cxu mi povas uzi 'la' dufoje po frazo?
tenpo mute la mi kepeken ala e toki pona la toki pona mi li ike

Se ne, kiel mi devas konstrui tion cxi? Tiel, eble:
toki pona mi li ike tan ni: tenpo mute la mi kepeken ala e toki pona.

Dankon denove pro viaj korektadoj.
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Re: a! mi kama e tomo.

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One of these days I have to relearn Eo, which I haven't used much in more than fifty years.
Yes, you can use la twice in a sentence, but your second version, with tan ni, is much clearer.
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