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.
a! mi kama e tomo.
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
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.
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
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.
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.
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
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?
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?
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
jan Kipo, thanks! If I don't use the *many times*, my toki pona speech is bad."jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike."
I think you want to move tenpo mute to a la phrase, not a direct object phrase.
But during the yellow moon, I studied Esperanto (Epalanto).taso mun jelo la mi sona e toki Esewanto. Mi nun povas paroli gxin bonege. Nu, tion cxi mi pensas.
jan Mato, as for the conlang conference, what is arriving? They do what?jan Mato o, kulupu pi toki sin la seme li kama? ona mute li pali e seme?
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/
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
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.
"using much time" is OK English, I'm not sure about tp. It is hard to make this point with a la construction.
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
jan Kipo, thanks! If I don't use the *many times*, my toki pona speech is bad.jan Kipo o, pona! mi kepeken ala e tenpo mute la toki mi pi toki pona li ike.
I think you want to move tenpo mute to a la phrase, not a direct object phrase.
sina o, pona! I have to relearn a lot of toki pona. I am making many errors."using much time" is OK English, I'm not sure about tp. It is hard to make this point with a la construction.
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.
Re: a! mi kama e tomo.
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.
Yes, you can use la twice in a sentence, but your second version, with tan ni, is much clearer.