kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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jan Bibijan
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kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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Shouldnt kulupu toki be toki kupulu? All adjectives come after the noun they modify, so toki kupulu would be community discussions whereas kulupu toki would be talking community.
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jan Kapiwe
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Re: kulupu toki una toki kupulu

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The forum is kulupu toki, the posts are toki kulupu. By the way, I think you meant "kulupu toki anu toki kulupu".
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Re: kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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toki tan ni tu: sina toki pi kulupu toki tawa mi. sina pona e nimi pi nasin ike mi.
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Re: kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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toki tan ni tu: sina toki pi kulupu toki tawa mi.
I tried to translate this.

"Message from these two: you are a message of a speaking community to me."

Huh? :?
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jan Bibijan
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Re: kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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jan Kapiwe wrote:
toki tan ni tu: sina toki pi kulupu toki tawa mi. sina pona e nimi pi nasin ike mi.
I tried to translate this.

"Message from these two: you are a message of a speaking community to me."

Huh? :?
toki = thanks
tan ni tu = for these two things
sina toki tawa mi = you told me
pi kulupu toki = about the forum thing
sina pona e = you fixed
nimi pi nasin ike my = mistake that i made in a word
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Re: kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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thanks = pona ;)
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jan Kapiwe
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Re: kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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If that's what you want to say, I'd say:

sina toki e ijo tu ni tawa mi:
sina toki e ijo pi kulupu toki li pona e nimi ike mi.

nasin ike is also ok, but it is better to keep it simple.
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Re: kulupu toki anu toki kupulu

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"for" in this sense (and many others) is 'tawa'
The "talk/tell about" issue got decided as 'toki e ijo pi' "say something related to"
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