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jan Pinsen o, mi sona ike a! :/
My bad, I don't know why I mentioned 'wi'. a a a.

Thanks jan Kipo, I was wondering about that "tawa" as well. How would "toki e ijo X" fit into that construction, though? Would you put it in a separate sentence? Or perhaps like, "mi sona e ni li toki e ijo X"?

pona, jan Wesi o! I don't think I'm familiar with lernu, but in case I ever go there, I'll try to remember.

That's alright janAetherStar, we both learned something this way

In this case, I think I would use just 'pi' in place of 'tawa'. 'ni' serves as the 'ijo' in this construction. But there isn't a lot of usage to go on.

Ah, I see what you mean now—the tawa itself is only replaced by the e, and you used another example with toki to show a usage where you would have "about" as well in the English translation. However, there's still a problem there since you already used "e" before in my example... so I guess indeed "pi" might be best.

Toki! mi kin li sin tawa toki pona. tenpo suno luka luka pini la(is that how you say 10 days ago?) mi kama e kama sona e toki pona. toki ni li pona mute tawa mi!

tenpo ni la mi sona lili e toki pona, taso mi wile e ni: mi sona e toki pona ale.

Or maybe 'tenpo suno pini luka luka' We vary. No 'e' with 'kama', which I don't think you need anyhow, just 'mi Kama sona e toki pona' (I suppose you could specify you started: 'open Kama sona' and maybe that is the point of the first 'kama', but then the form would be the same:'Kama Kama sona').
Kamapona tawa toki pona!

Pona!

I was using the first kama as "started", so: mi kama kama sona e toki pona.

jan Pinsen o kama pona tawa kulupu!

mi sona e ni: tenpo pini la mi wile kepeken e nimi mi lon kulupu. taso nimi mi lon toki pona li ante li lukin ike. mi wile e ni: nimi pi toki pona mi li mi. nimi mi li lon sitelen anpa (signature) mi.

mi pakala! mi lukin ala e lipu ni. kama pona, jan Eli o.

pona, jan Pusa o. mi sona ala e toki lon sitelen anpa sina. mi lukin e ni. taso, mi sona ala e ni kin. sina toki e ni: nimi sina li lon ni. taso, ni li seme?

'toki pi lon sitelen'
mi pilin e ni: toki li toki pi ma Pllipina, taso toki seme?