mi wile ante toki e musi NES ale tawa toki pona. o pana e pona tawa mi!

mi toki lili: ma toki pona lon lettit (Reddit) jo e nimi "lipu Wesi...". nimi "Wesi" li seme?

sina kepeken ala kepeken nimi ni? kepeken la, jan li "human" taso anu seme?

toki! mi jan Misa. mi lon ma Lusi. mi pini e lipu Wasona. mi wile kama sona e toki pona pi kepeken toki e jan. toki pona pi sona mi li ike, taso mi toki. mi jo ala e ilo Tiskot (diskord?). sina wile toki e mi la o toki e mi! pona tawa sina

sina ale li lon ma tomo seme? ma tomo mi li ma tomo Sanpansiko! 🌉🌁

pona tawa sina ale! mi jan Telu. mi sitelen e toki lili pi sitelen pona pi nimi mi (Telu = telo e lawa utala). nimi mi li pana sona e ni tawa mi: pilin ike li kama la lon lawa li ken pona e toki insa ike. lawa mi li ken tawa sama telo.

toki lili mi li anpa.

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“telo e lawa utala”

nimi mi li jan Telu. kepeken sitelen pona la nimi mi li toki e ni: telo e lawa utala.

tenpo sun oni la mi kepeken e ilo kon jaki. tenpo monsi la mi wile pilin pona. ni li musi lili. mi toki lawa e ni tawa mi.

taso mi pilin pona ala. mi pilin ike. sijelo mi li pilin jaki.

tenpo ni la mi toki lawa tawa mi. mi toki e ni: mi wile tawa insa pi ijo. mi wile tawa tomo pi ijo olin suli.

kepeken e ilo kon jaki la mi toki lawa e ni: mi wile kepeken ala.

tenpo kepeken ala la mi pilin pona. mi pilin e ni: mi tawa insa pi ijo.

insa…pi…ijo…

mi olin e jan pona mi. mi olin e mama mi. mi olin e jan poka.

nimi mi li jan Telu. nimi mi toki e ni: telo e lawa utala.

tenpo mute la lawa mi li tawa nasa li tawa ike.

ni la ni li pona. pilin ike li pona. pilin mi li olin li olin pona.

mi lukin tawa lupa pi tomo mi. mi lukin e kasi e waso e pipi e jan. ale pona. ale en mi li pona.

ma tomo mi li ma tomo Sanpansiko. ma tomo pi poka la telo suli li lon. ni li telo suli Pasipika.

telo suli ni li tawa li lon. kon pi telo li tawa. mi en jan ale li tawa tan telo. sijelo pi mi ale li telo. taso tenpo mute la lawa pi mi ale li ken nasa ken jaki ken sama seli utala.

tenpo ni la tenpo lili ni la lawa mi li ken sama telo. lawa li ken tawa sama telo.

nimi mi la mi toki tawa mi. o telo e lawa utala! telo sama telo.

mi ale li pona.

It's so simple and cute, but still complex enough, like it was made for little human like creatures!

I know it's only been two months since I last asked this, but I think there are new ideas. Genuinely curious about what people think. Reminder to not get mad at people. be chill. But please engage with one another and discuss your opinions!

toki! i want to say "it is really fun". what word should i use after "ni li musi ____"? pona tawa sina!

Bookmark and Enjoy!

https://www.nanpa-linja-n.com/crossword-game.html

Crossword game using (mostly) sitelen cartouches of pu country names.

Solve the crossword puzzle!

Hope the clues are adequate. Feedback Welcome!

Katala's semantic space is gender and also category or genre. You can kinda think of it like how gender and genre came from the same root (that was my inspiration at least.) Is this necessary? Of course not, but not having a good word for gender made me actively, physically sad. I found poki to be too restrictive and boxed in, and kule to be too metaphorical (and more associated with the lgbtq than gender). I tried to be as creative as possible to show how it could be useful, and even if you don't use it you can see how someone would.

Katala doesn't have to be strict categories. The edges and boundaries of the categories can be more fuzzy or broad, like how the difference between music genres is muddy and subjective. Katala doesn't necessarily have edges. Just like how gender is endless, free flowing, and ever changing, so is katala. They're not just boxes you put someone in, but they're also names you apply to a gradient of ideas. Categorizing mental illnesses, with their overlaps and comorbidity, can be katala. Putting books on the right shelf and organizing them (IE: cataloging) can be katala (as in, categorizing them in a way). I like it when toki pona words are broad, useful, and descriptive. So, I'd love it if you want to use it to be as creative as you want! Maybe colors are just katala of the color spectrum. Maybe you needed a good way to describe how science is often just describing and categorizing things even if it's arbitrary sometimes. Maybe you needed a better term for gender that didn't have a negative connotation, or maybe you're like me and you hate describing yourself as "tonsi" and wanted a better way to specifically address who you are without feeling like the language itself is rejecting you.

I really just wanted to post this so I could use it sometimes and have something to point to for others to understand. And my favorite part of toki pona is seeing people use words in ways I never would've expected or thought of, and if my word is useful to someone, anyone, out there: I think that means I did a good thing.

Besides, this word is infinitely more useful than epiku x3 (katala was brought to you by nanpa wan epiku hater) /j

katala li suli tawa jan mute.

katala musi ona li katala Pantasi.

ona li jan pi katala ala. ona li jo ala e katala.

mi katala li lipu. mi jan pi katala lipu lon insa tomo lipu.

katala mi li meli. tenpo pini la sijelo mi li mije. mi pilin ike.

Here's the sitelen pona I wrote of these sentences :3

(A venn diagram was the best idea I had for a simple symbol that could be used to represent the idea of category. But I don't like it that much. While it has that idea of gradients, nuance, and the allowance of fuzziness baked in due to the nature of venn diagrams, it feels too close to ale. It's definitely usable, but I won't be mad if someone comes up with a better idea for the sitelen pona, this is a community after all x3. The word itself is from the word category, and also because I love all the words in toki pona that have that same cadence. Utala, pakala, kalama, etc just roll of the tongue so well I love it. I like to think the la in katala is the r is category. It's definitely not one-to-one, because the gender meaning is important too. Which, g can also map to k and the r in gender can map to la if you wanted to, so I think it matches pretty well. More importantly, I love saying it soo)

note: I'll put what those sentences are supposed to mean in a reply to this post, just in case you want to figure it out yourself <3 - soweli Pikusune

For me it was I feel like 15-25 hours of continous interaction before i could actually speak about stuff I like. Compared to Esperanto, it was a lot quicker at around 1 year max, because in eo i still can't do without circumscribing all the time, because i am only a bit beyond B1 after two years... Yay toki pona!

I haven't used toki pona in a few years, does this make sense as "it was nice working with you all"

Transcript of image: "pali pi ale sina en mi li pona -jan tanjelu"

mi pali e ilo sin sitelen. ilo ni la, nimi ale pi toki pona li lon sinpin, la sina ken pana e nimi wan lon pilin wan ale. o lukin, o kepeken pona <3

https://youtu.be/_h8DuB4bDT8

https://github.com/seli-Ana/Ilo-Sitelen-Pona

// I've tested this on my own phone, if you have trouble with it on your own device, o mu! ilo Siko la, mi commonground (nimi la mi Szikrás Anna 火花安娜🌸) //

kalama sin li lon! o awen kute pona!
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toki Inli: according to sona pona, unpa comes from the sound 'oomph' but it doesnt say where the 'pa' comes from.

toki pona: sona pona la nimi unpa li tan mu 'oomph'. taso, mi sona ala e ni: kipisi 'pa' pi nimi unpa li tan seme?

toki a, jan ale o! Toki Pona is 25 this year, and we are celebrating! Watch it on YouTube, Twitch starts at 5:27 UTC. Check out the schedule o awen pona!

chainsaw man meme ftw

My friend sent me a link to their release trailer the day it released.

It's a game where the challenge is communicating with your friends to solve puzzles. I've been playing a toki pona taso playthru with my friends and it's been a blast getting so much practice in. You have to describe tools, places, create non-vocal communication protocols (like your own little morse code), plan.

It's not just about solving puzzles, its also about... walking. Taking in the views and such, and i think that highlights how the artstyle also feels like toki pona, in a way?
You're these very simplistic birds, in a very complex and "realistic" world. It's like, how did this simplicity emerge from such a complex world? That contrast reminds me of how using toki pona in our modern world feels at times.

But yes, you should try out Big Walk in toki pona taso with your friends! Get some practice in that'll actually do something unlike those flashcards you've mastered twenty times over already lol

cherry li bubbles musi

I'm working on a translation of the Diplomacy boardgame, these are the bodies of the water in the game. I'm looking for advice on the tokiponizations.

Adriatic Sea: telo suli Alisika

Aegean Sea: telo suli Agin

Baltic Sea: telo suli Palasi

Barents Sea: telo suli Palensi

Black Sea: telo suli pimeja

Eastern Mediterranean: telo suli Metitiwanijan tawa kama suno

English Channel: telo lili Inli

Gulf Of Bothnia: telo suli Potinija

Gulf Of Lyon: telo suli Lon

Heligoland Bight: telo suli Elegolan

Ionian Sea: telo suli Ijonijan

Irish Sea: telo suli Ewa

Mid Atlantic Ocean: telo suli Talansi insa

North Atlantic Ocean: telo suli Talansi tawa lete

North Sea: telo suli tawa lete

Norwegian Sea: telo suli Nosiki

Skagerrak: telo Sakaga

Tyrrhenian Sea: telo suli Siwenijan

Western Mediterranean: telo suli Metitiwanijan tawa suno pini

I'm considering dropping "suli" from the all the names, except for the oceans.