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Re: o kepeken
Gee, I think I just said that and suggested that your proposals killed exactly that spirit. Sorry if I misread you, but I don't quite see how else to take the notion of fixed rules for construction.
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Re: o kepeken
tp-logo is a some sort of "horoscope", which describes a fate of toki pona. It is not a deep analysis, only for note.but I don't quite see how else to take the notion of fixed rules for construction
tp-logo has three parts of fortune:
- round -- perfectness, pureness... like a cocon
- smile -- a part of round, reduced style, occam's razor -- pure minimalism, like caterpillar does
- sparks -- something out of standard fire, extension (with a smoke/fume, sometimes)
Round -- dao
smile -- yin
sparks -- yang
Re: o kepeken
Sorry, I don't understand any of this, neither the openings of each line nor the jumps to unrelated points beyond.
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Re: o kepeken
It is a question of imagination. I see in tp-logo a few ideas. Fists of all, three styles of using of tp. Second, a line of fate: in a beginning tp was like a caterpillar, in a middle of its way, tp is becoming like a cocon, and in a future tp will become like a butterfly (free and colorful).
Our main question is: "how to use tp correctly? ("o kepeken") And tp-logo gives an answer: - like a caterpillar -- reducing pu towards real minimalism, because pu is not minimal
- like a cocon -- keeping pu as much as possible (with slogan "be happy you have")
- like a butterfly -- to extend tp towards auxlang (jump to freedom)
Re: o kepeken
Thanks, that does clarify things. It ties in nicely with several of the purpose of tp answers, except, of course, that tends to suggest a value judgment in favor of one over the others and I would hold that all are valid and right for some people. I suppose our conflicts, if there are any, are at the butterfly stage since we seem to see rather different outcomes, one freer, one mor governed by prior rules. We'll see how that works out as rules are proposed and considered or discovered.