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Toki Pona proverbs
ale li jo e tenpo.
There is a time and place for everything. Everything in its right context.
ale li pona.
Life is great. All is good. Life is beautiful. Everything will be OK.
ante li kama.
Change comes. Times change.
ike li kama.
Bad things will happen. Bad comes. Shit happens.
jan li suli mute. mani li suli lili.
People are more important than money.
jan sona li jan nasa.
A wise man is a fool. A genius thinks unconventionally.
lupa meli li mama ale.
A woman's womb is the mother of all things.
mi pona e ale mi, la mi pona e mi.
When I improve all areas of my life, I am making myself good.
mi weka e ike jan, la mi weka e ike mi.
When I forgive and forget somebody's wrongdoings, I cleanse myself of negativity.
nasin ante li pona tawa jan ante.
Different ways are good for different people. Different strokes for different folks.
nasin pona li mute.
The good ways are many. There are many right ways of doing things. There are many valid truths. All roads lead to Rome.
o olin e jan poka.
Love thy neighbour.
o sona e sina!
Know thyself!
o toki ala. o pali.
Stop thinking. Do stuff.
pali li pana e sona.
Actions give knowledge. One learns by experience.
pilin pona li pana e sijelo pona.
Positive feelings grant good health. Mind over matter.
sin en ante li sin e lawa li pana e sona.
Novelty and change freshen the mind and bring insight.
sina pana e ike, la sina kama jo e ike.
If you give evil, you will receive evil. What negativity you send out will return to you.
suno li lon poka pimeja.
Light is beside darkness. Opposites are interconnected. Yin and yang.
toki pona li toki pona.
Toki Pona is a good language.
wawa li lon insa.
Energy comes from inside. Youth is all in the heart.
weka lili li pona tawa lawa.
Temporary isolation is good for meditation. It is good to remove yourself momentarily from something to really understand it.
wile sona li mute e sona.
Curiosity feeds wisdom. One learns by asking questions.
#TokiPona #proverbs #nasin_toki #linja_toki #janSonja #toki_sona #anno2011
Androgynous Names
By antipathy, January 3, 2006 in Asexual Musings and Rantings
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LOL I doubt that one could change the forms 'thou, thy, thee' from second-person singular to a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun! Good try though!
Or... thee.
Thee is so cool!
Possessive: theer/theers
Theer book is here. It's theers.
Okies... that would be hard to adopt, sounding too close to the archaic 'thou, thy, thee' pronoun and 'they, their, them.'
I don't think any artificial replacements will work. English has been quite stubborn for language reforms, from spelling to its plain openness to foreign words. It will just have to do. Whenever I want to refer to someone, I usually say 'that/this person' instead of a pronoun. It seems to be the only natural way to describe someone without having to hint at gender.
For androgynous names, we have a large Sikh community, and since equality is part of their religious values, it has also been extended to names with only a 'surname' of 'singh' (lion) for males, or 'kaur' (princess) for women. Punjabi names tend to be quite gender-neutral, but it can be difficult sometimes since they don't seem too variated. We already have a few Sukhi/Sukhdeep/Sukh-(insert suffix here) at my school, and thus is becomes hard to differentiate.
Sometimes, I make fun and call myself Kevinder to blend in! :lol:
Too bad English can't be like other languages. All Austronesian languages (Tagalog, Indonesian, Malaysian, Hawai'ian, Tahitian, Maori, etc) tend to have gender-neutral pronouns and words. If one wishes to be specific, one would merely add in an adjectival describer, as in 'male' or 'female.'
Tagalog
asawa = husband / wife
bayani = hero / heroine
bata = child (no 'girl' or 'boy' specifically)
anák = child (as in 'son' or 'daughter')
siyá = he / she
We might as well speak Lojban or Toki Pona and get it over with. :roll:
https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/13391-androgynous-names/
Toki Pona- the language of good in Spark 2016 (Mar. 12 - 13, 2016)
Toki! Ever wanted to learn another language? Toki Pona is the world's simplest language, with only 120 words. By the end of this class, you'll be able to talk to each other and communicate basic concepts.
Yale Splash Fall 14
Course Catalog
H1299: Grow a Gab: Constructing Languages Full!
Difficulty: **
Teachers: Samuel Brenner
Students will learn a brief history of constructed (consciously made and artificial) languages such as Esperanto, Volapuk, Lojban, and Toki Pona. Students will learn what goes into creating a language and then begin to construct their own.
Meeting Time
Section 1: Sat, Nov 08, 3:00pm--3:50pm
Grades
7 - 12
Enrollment
Section 1: Full! (max 12)
https://yale.learningu.org/learn/Splash/2014_Fall/catalog
#TokiPona #Yale #mention #leson_uniwesita #conlangs #konlan #jan_sona #SamuelBrenner #anno2014
Three haiku by Taneda Santoka
Postby WasoPimeja » Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:03 am
toki!
I have been working on translating some japanese haiku into toki pona, in order to explore how this language and that literary genre work together. They have many essential features in common. Eventually, I'm hoping to find ways to create my own, original haiku in tp.
Here are a couple of my initial attempts. All these haiku are by Taneda Santoka (1882-1940), whose style is known for brevity, simplicity and sober clarity (despite that he lived as a drunken wandering beggar). I thought such a style would be the easiest to work with in the beginning.
I'd love to know about any thoughts, ideas and corrections you might have. I don't know if I'm stretching tp grammar a bit by using simple noun phrases the way they are used in the originals.
mi tawa kin
mi tawa kin
nena laso
分け入つても分け入つても青い山
wakeittemo wakeittemo aoi yama (original)
I go in I go in still the blue mountains (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
kasi li
tawa anpa
mi tawa kin
木の葉散る歩きつめる
konoha chiru aruki tsumeru (original)
Leaves are falling; / I walk and walk. (Tr. by Takashi Nonin)
waso pimeja li kalama
mi kin
wan taso
鴉啼いてわたしも一人
karasu naite watashi mo hitori (original)
A crow caws, / I too am alone. (Tr. by James Abrams)
ala li sin lon anpa suno. jan ala li ken toki e ni: 'o lukin! ni li sin a!' tan ni: ale li kama li tawa weka lon tenpo pini.- Eccl. 1.10
Stanford Splash! Fall 2010
Course Catalog
L1165: o kama sona e toki pona lon tenpo lili!
Teachers: Seth Schoen
L963: Undergraduate College Applications Guidance
Teachers: Ranna Patel
A step by step guidance on how to plan your admissions
Tips on writing amazing essays
Fatal mistakes that can kill your application
Question and answer session
Prerequisites
none
Meeting Time
Section 1: Sun 2:00pm--3:50pm
Grades
11 - 12
Enrollment
Section 1: 29 (max 30)
https://stanfordesp.org/learn/Splash/2010_Fall/catalog
#TokiPona #Splash #Stanford #leson_uniwesita #jan_sona #SethSchoen #anno2010
Princeton
Splash Spring 2018 : Course Catalog
Humanities
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H501: toki pona Full!
Difficulty: *
Teachers: Holden Lee
toki - language; to talk, to speak
pona - good, simple
Toki pona is said to be the smallest language in the world, with just 123 words. Inspired by Taoist philosophy and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (language influences thinking), Sonja Lang created the language in 2001 as an experiment: what happens if we boil language down to the bare essentials? Come take part in this experiment!
For inspiration, check out this podcast episode: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/tokipona
I will follow this course: http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/okamasona.php
Prerequisites
None.
Meeting Time
Section 1: Sat 10:00am--10:50am
Grades
9 - 12
Enrollment
Section 1: Full! (max 20)
https://princeton.learningu.org/learn/Splash/2018_Spring/catalog
https://princeton.learningu.org/learn/Splash/2019_Spring/catalog
#TokiPona #HoldenLee #jan_sona #course #leson_uniwesita #Princeton #anno2018 #anno2019
Andy Tockman
Constructed languages are languages invented by individuals rather than naturally developed, for purposes ranging from facilitating communication between speakers of different languages (the most famous being Esperanto) to simply serving as works of art.
my conlangs
Xõópríf is a conlang spoken by people who have no tongue, teeth, or nose. (It is very, very far from being complete.)
other people's conlangs
In 1921, Jacob Linzbach invented a writing system based on mathematical notation and published his work in a little-known book written in the now-obsolete international auxiliary language Occidental. Here is a transcription and translation of the book about the writing system called Transcendental Algebra.
toki pona is a conlang made by Sonja Lang. I have produced a toki pona translation of the Telegram desktop application, which is ~50% complete.
#TokiPona #mention #sona #conlang #konlan #Telegram #Telekan
MASTER FILE Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed LanguagesRevision 04/01/08Title: Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed LanguagesOriginal Exhibit Dates: May-August2008, Cleveland Public Library
8.C.1. Image Source: Photo of Sonja Elen Kisa at whiteboard8.C.2. Text:(CAPTION)Sonja Elen KisaCreator of Toki Pona Canada
Especially for this exhibit, Sonja Elen Kisa described herself as "a29-year-old Queer Acadian (French-Canadian) woman currently living in Toronto, Canada. She designed the minimal language Toki Pona in 2001 after a period of depression, as she sought to simplify her life and find the true meaning behind things. She is currently studying to become a speech-language pathologist." Kisa was the subject of an article in The Globe and Mail, a major Toronto newspaper, in July 2007. According to that source, around 100 people speak Toki Pona fluently, mostly in chat rooms and blogs. Even more interesting are the facts that a "Colorado programmer is developing an apocalyptic computer game with Toki Pona as the spoken language [and an]Israeli-German singer and member of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir is including it in a concert of musical pieces composed in constructed languages, alongside Esperanto and Star Trek's Klingon."An example of the language is the proverb"Nasin ante li pona tawa jan ante: Different ways are good for different people (i.e. different strokes for different folks)."8.C.3.Text:The Babel Text in Toki Pona1.ma ali li jo e toki wan en sama. 2.jan ali li kama tan nasin pi kama suno, li kama lon ma Sinale, li awen lon ni. 3.jan li toki e ni: "o kama! mi mute o pali e kiwen tomo, o seli e ona." 4.jan mute li toki e ni:"o kama! mi mute o pali e ma tomo e tomo palisa suli. lawa pi tomo palisa li lon sewi kon. 5.o nimi pi mi mute li kama suli! mi wile ala e ni: mi mute li kan ala. mi mute li lon ma ali." 6.jan sewi Jawe li kama anpa, li lukin e ma tomo e tomo palisa pi jan lili mute. 7.jan sewi Jawe li toki e ni: "jan ni li jo e ma wan, li jo e toki sama, li pali e tomo palisa. tenpo ni la ona mute li ken pali mute ike. mi wile tawa anpa, mi pakala e toki pi jan mute ni. o jan li sona ala e toki pi jan ante." 8.jan sewi Jawe li pali e ni: jan ali li poki ala jan, li lon ma mute, li ken ala pali e ma tomo. 9.nimi pi ma tomo ni li Pape tan ni: jan sewi Jawe li pakala e toki pi jan ali. tan ma tomo Pape la jan sewi Jawe li tawa e jan tawa ma mute.(http://www.omniglot.com/babel/tokipona.htm)
https://studylib.net/doc/8524847/1--splash----conlanger-s-library
Most of my toots have Toki Pona tags permitting quite good searchability like almost noone else uses this language for this.
Plus most TP root words are unique in their precise form to Toki Pona.
I've added some extra words to the 123 root words and I'm also using some archaic Toki Pona words that were once used or considered.
The Toki Pona Classic Word List is findable at :
http://tokipona.net/tp/ClassicWordList.aspx
Concepts not having their own word are dealt with by making compounds :
film = sitelen tawa (moving pictures) ; car = tomo tawa (moving indoor place) ;
tree = kasi suli (big plant); child = jan lili (little person) ;
phone = ilo toki (talking device) ; computer = ilo sona (knowledge device)
For personal usage I've added
'puku' (book) , 'tele' (film, video, cinema), 'konpu' (computer, chip, electronics), 'mele' (mail), 'inteli' (smart, intelligent)
and reactivated
'majuna' (old, ancient) , 'pasila' (easy), 'powe' (false)
The reason I'm on qoto.org is simply because this instance is following all instances I'm on ...
Therefore I can find back all my postings via the Toki Pona tags I've used on an instance that isn"t overused at this moment.
Only limit is that it goes only back to somewhere in early 2018.
Idriss ABERKANE - Sa vision de la Blockchain et des Cryptomonnaies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4gWjirYR4
#bitcoin #cryptomonnaie #monnaie #argent #money #mani_intenetu
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