toki tan tomo telo about the date system: * sike is just the gregorian calendar year, at least for now * mun 01 starts on the first new moon of the year * mun lili kama - waxing crescent * mun suli kama - waxing gibbous * mun suli tawa - waning gibbous * mun lili tawa - waning crescent =========================== sike 2022, mun 01 lili tawa =========================== if you die in toki pona do you die in real life * * * telo soweli. toweli * * * "nanpa wan tawa mi" is such an illegaly cute phrase =========================== sike 2022, mun 01 lili kama =========================== mi sona e nasin sitelen pi nimi sitelelelelen, taso mi sona ala pini * * * reading back through this text file and honestly still floored that toki pona pu has three (3) words that start with "u", and together they make an excellent analogue to fuck/marry/kill kiss, have sexual and/or marital relations with, Fight =========================== sike 2021, mun 12 lili tawa =========================== mi wile kama sona e nasin nanpa "base 6" tan ni: jan li pali e nasin nanpa pi toki pona kepeken nimi "kijetesantakalu". nasin ni li jo e nanpa ni: je 5 te 4 san 3 ta 2 ka 1 lu 0 https://toki.social/@janLentan/107118810033129563 nasin ni li pona mute tawa mi. taso, mi pali e nasin nanpa kijetesantakalu la, nanpa ka li sama nanpa 5: je 1 te 2 san 3 ta 4 ka 5 lu 0 tan seme? ni li lon la, nanpa "lu ka" li sama nanpa 05. jan mute pi toki pona li kepeken nimi "luka" tawa toki e nanpa 5. =========================== sike 2021, mun 12 suli kama =========================== amiga ball demo, but instead of having a red and white checkerboard pattern it has the sitelen pona for "musi" on it, so the ball looks like the combined sitelen pona for "ijo musi" =========================== sike 2021, mun 10 suli tawa =========================== honestly really love the way some people have been playing with head nouns (i.e. instead of just being "jan [Name]" they'll pick a different noun that describes what they are.) the most straightforward examples are probably plural collectives going by "kulupu" and nonhumans going by a noun that describes their species (because although "jan" can simply mean "person", it can also mean "human".) it feels very much in the spirit of neopronouns and i love it. =========================== sike 2021, mun 08 lili kama =========================== we like toki pona because at any moment you can feel like you're spewing poetic bullshit about the mundane, or referring to abstract concepts in quaint little terms, and it's all a perfectly understandable (often THE most widely-accepted) way to say what you're saying =========================== sike 2021, mun 07 suli tawa =========================== kopimi but as a nimi sin * * * OH okay so we make sigils sometimes, using the method of writing out a phrase and rearranging the letter-shapes into one symbol. specifically, we write the phrase out in english using madoka runes. but now... now we could write it in toki pona using sitelen pona! the possibilities... * * * [agnus dei voice] anu seme ...okay this is actually kind of making us want to come up with a fictional deity known by the epithet "the great Or What" * * * has anyone made like, a typology of things conlangs name themselves. because you've got solresol (language), toki pona (*good* language), and probably a lot of others that are named something language-y. then there's lojban (logic), and then you've got esperanto over here being "he who hopes"? [ edit: okay so apparently esperanto was intended to be called something that meant "international language". it's just that the guy who made it called *himself* "dr. esperanto" and so people started calling the language itself "esperanto", and it just kind of stuck. so actually, we were thinking of esperanto's monster. ] * * * we're too tired to write this in toki pona, but when we were working on our sitelen pona adjustments earlier, we thought about using madoka runes as an influence (because that's one of our fav conscripts... ona li pona lukin mute tawa mi.) anyway, as you may be able to tell, we ended up using the madoka runes' letter "n" as our symbol for "seme". initially this was Just so our seme would be distinct from a question mark while still kind of looking like one. BUT it turns out that you can draw the curly bit on top as looking like the sitelen pona for "wile"!! and that makes sense because if you're saying "seme", usually you wile sona something. and that's fucking pona. * * * "taso telo li seme? jan li sona ala. jan ken ala toki e telo. ken la sina wile e sona sama waso. waso li seme? jan li sona ala. jan li sona e ni: telo li wawa mute. ijo ante ale li wawa lili." -- sitelen tawa Lu Awan Ju nanpa wan (nimi Wata) * * * "unpa, uta, utala" ni li sama musi Paku Mewi Ki anu seme?