#Toki pona

[spades-players-dni]

ni li lon

learn toki pona! then you can post nonsense that no one will understand

[arewebeholdingaman]

the sitelen pona symbol for the word "nena"

✅️ featherless

❎️ at first glance I wasn't sure if the shape evokes singular or plural leg imagery so I brought this case to our in-house language specialist. According to him, "nena" translates to "hill" and other similar phenomena, which brings to mind less so two legs paired together and rather one leg in a bent-knee position. As such, we will be categorising this abstract language character as containing only one leg

Now I wanna learn toki pona

[girlbugboy]

soweli, grazing (tux paint, 2024)

[watermelonolemretaw]

translating things into toki pona is so serotonin-inducing because you have to ask yourself "how the hell do i translate snake" and your brain just goes "it's a string lizard. obviously"

[jan-asiku]

mi lon⭐

sitelen mama li tan @xxacidnekoxx. toki pona li tan @jan-asiku. o lukin e sitelen mama.

[greenouillee]

Problem: Maths (& Physics) have too many cases where a symbol is used, confusingly, to mean multiple different things, leading to ambiguity and headaches. Sensible solution: Use a key or just simply clarify the meaning in context, so v here is velocity, or v here is an arbitrary vector, or v here is specifically final velocity, or v here is the harmonic function for the complex part of a complex function f(z) for the purposes of the Cauchy-Riemann & Laplacian equations, or v here is the potential V(x) differentiated with respect to time (yes i have seen this once, it was disgusting). My solution: add new characters. invent new scripts. steal syllabaries, acquire abjads, and abduct alphabets until we have enough squiggly lines to give literally everything its own unique symbol. This will help nobody and ruin everything. I will not rest until I am doing theoretical physics with these bad boys:

[Image ID: The 120 base Sitelen Pona of Toki Pona. They are simple, black and white, cartoonish, almost child-like drawings that act as logographic characters for the base words of the conlang Toki Pona. Each one has its corresponding name/word in Latin script beneath. End ID] Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[jan-ala]

i like how this is written as if sitelen pona is an ancient, uncovered writing system from a long forgotten society

ma'am that long forgotten society is named Sonja Lang and she has an instagram account and github page?????

[twig-gy]

i love seeing people with jan in their username cause i Know. jan to jan communication… jan to jan conversation…

[hbmmaster]

toki pona speaking ace attorney character named Ken Moli

[janmisali]

translating jan usawi's likujo would be a fun challenge specifically if you want to preserve the tone of "like every other word is some obscure neologism that at most two people have ever used before"

[d1s4strous]

[dyst-blogs]

toki pona is like if you wanted to make a language, but gave yourself the same restraints as a game designer trying to fit an entire game onto an NES cartridge

[lady-rosie]

Stop what you're doing and LOOKIT HIM READ!!!

This was a comm for Sonja Lang!

[jan-lape]

[fioras-resolve]

this is toki pona to me