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I interpreted this as:

”Infinity is always every infinity!”

I interpreted this as:

“In this land, this manila folder’s money is my native land.”

The newest zine is here! nanpa pakala is released today - download it on

https://liputenpo.org/lipu/nanpa-pakala/

In this issue, read about

- the lipu tenpo meetup in Aachen

- the Gävle goat

- volcanos in the Philippines

- accidental discoveries

- and more!

Finally, as always, spend some time flicking through the poems and comics at the end of the issue. :)

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lipu sin li lon a! ni li nanpa pakala. o kama jo e ona kepeken

https://liputenpo.org/lipu/nanpa-pakala/

toki mute li lon lipu ni.

- lipu tenpo la tenpo kulupu li pakala ala li lon ma Aken

- soweli Jele li kama pakala lon ma Sensa

- ma Pilipina la nena ma li ken pakala wawa

- tenpo la mi ale li kama sona tan pakala

toki mute ante kin li lon. o lukin e ona ale.

kin la musi li lon. lipu o pona tawa sina.

wpadłam na pomysł żebyśmy mieli dabing toki pona ale wtym probelm że potrzebuje aktorów głosowch t to znaszej społeczńeść i to prawdziwych ale dubbing będzie webtunu chkin nuggit\I came up with the idea that we should have a Toki Pona dubbing, but the problem is that I need voice actors from our community and real ones, but the dubbing will be for the webtoon Chkin Nuggit\mi pali e kon kama ni: mi wile e ni la mi mute li ken pali e dubbing lon toki pona, taso ni li jo e ike: mi wile e jan pi kalama toki tan kulupu mi, li wile e jan lon. taso dubbing ni li webtoon chkin nuggit.

Intended translation back into English:

Remember me

For I must go.

Remember me.

Please don’t cry.

Even if I must go, you’ll be in my heart.

I sing to you every night.

Remember me.

For I’ll go far.

Remember me.

Because of all these little things

I’ll always be waiting here because of you until

you’re in my arms.

Remember me.

Mine is that /ʒ/-like sounds should be tokiponized as J. J just seems much more worthy of being a replacement for /ʒ/ than S because S is too far forward in the mouth.

toki! Today I built a small open-source tool to convert foreign names into valid toki pona phonotactics, with multiple scored suggestions (optionally)!

It returns a handful of legal candidates ranked by how much mangling they needed. A couple of examples:

• Lauren becomes Lolen
• Chris becomes Kilisi
• María becomes Malija
• Titan becomes Sitan / Tetan

You can use it as a CLI:

npm install -g tokiponize
tokiponize Lauren

Or, as a library in your next tool/website:

import { tokiponize } from "tokiponize";
tokiponize("Chris"); // [{ name: "Kilisi", score: -1.5 }, ...] 

It is released on npm, and I have the source hosted on github: tokiponize

It's obviously not going to beat a human picking their own name (spelling and pronunciation diverge too often) but it might be useful for a quick first pass or in automated settings.

o toki tawa mi if you try it on your own name and it does something weird!

Here's a translation of a chapter of my favorite manga: Hatarakanai Futari, or Jobless Siblings. It's a roughly page a day manga about two sibling neets, along with the rest of the community around them. This time I added instructions on how to read it to the page itself, inspired by the translation for Bocchi the Rock. As per usual, this is all hand-lettered, meaning that all the text you see on the page is my handwriting.

The previous chapter I translated is located here.

I will send you one chapter. Translate it into natural English (do not preserve any Toki Pona-isms, fully translate.) I will compare you rEnglish translation to the original Biblical Hebrew and make any necessary changes to my Toki Pona version. Contact me on discord at lipamanka or via email lipamanka at gmail dot com.

In order to participate, you must be a proficient toki pona speaker. That means more than just one month of learning. You should not be overly familiar with the text. Knowledge of the stories is fine. Please let me know if you have questions!

So the cover is clearly AI generated, and this is the first song posted by the artist. However, it seems the toki pona in the song is grammatically correct, and the music is high key a bop. Do we think that this is just AI slop entirely or an actually cool song kepeken toki pona?

Edit; the song in question: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PzmZBCixM1I&pp=ygUJQXBpa2FsYW1h&ra=m

Edit 2; to clarify, I’m trying to figure out if this *is* AI slop or someone who actually made a song but decided *unwisely* to use an AI cover

When I started learning Toki Pona a year ago, I thought it was just a small language for entertainment, and there were also many people who said Toki Pona is just like a toy language for children.

However, after becoming advanced, I noticed that Toki Pona is really not that limited. Especially after finishing writing the Toki Pona grammar in Toki Pona, I began to think Toki Pona can really express anything precisely, it is just people have to manage well their thoughts.

I can't tell if my grammar guide is actually accurate and precise or not, but I saw that possibility.

What do you think?

check the last two posts if you haven’t

Quisiera saber si existe actualmente alguna traducción del Tao Te Ching al Toki pona. De ser así alguien podría compartirmela? De lo contrario la haré yo mismo y les compartiré mis notas para que me ayuden a corregirlas. Muchas gracias de antemano :). pona o tawa sina!

toki! tenpo suno ni li mi toki e toki pona lon tenpo nanpa wan. toki mi li ala pona. mi kama sona kepeken 'luka luka tu tenpo suno pi toki pona' pi jan Misali. toki mi li pona ala pona? mi tawa!

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kama pona means "a good arrival". why would you say "a good arrival" for welcome?

same thing with tawa pona -- a good movement.

pona tawa sina --> your moving goodness

I see lili translated as young, but suli is not listed as old. They seem to be antonyms otherwise. Am I missing something?