#jan usawi

[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"

[jan-majeka-yaps]

jan Usawi did not have to go þat hard for Carry on my Kekan San she fucking ripped dude

[stay-away-from-the-sun]

jan Usawi - sina

[kon-lin]

mi wile ala lili

mi wile ala suwi

mi wile ala olin

mi wile alasa

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

in order to play the spanish flea • akesi (apeja li mi) • kule mi • o lanpan (pan (nanpa wan)) • dreams come true • carry • anthony (oh the misali) • jan pi sona weka • you must pay the splanish fee

Bandcamp

[glazeliights]

o kute ala e ona

mi tu li o pali wile

o alasa e pona

mi tu li o pali wile

[adhdo5]

how r u going about learning toki pona?

I started with jan Misali's new series (decided to watch it idly to go to sleep and then it was four hours later and I had just found my new Big Phase) and then moved on to the kama sona Discord server, where I kept the Linku dictionary and kilipan grammar reference on hand while #chatting and doing (bad) translations

This was my main path but the sitelen sitelen course was also really useful for me, as was listening thru kalama sin; lipamanka's and mun Kekan San's websites were also really useful for broader concepts, and even tho I looked into the latter's actual lessons just a smidge after the main line would've been directly useful for me, it's still a pretty good analysis

luka pona la I read through the grammar document for word order rules and then most everything I've actually learned I was taught directly over video call by jan Tepo

TL;DR: I fucking love talking and by god so does everyone else in this community

[twig-gy]

JAN ALE LON MA TONSI !!!!!!!!

[needle-thread-thimble-spear]

Your Inception (Shelby Harvey/Cassette Beasts)

Alice's Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie)

Ground Vision (drive45)

Onna no ko no kitetsu (From the first Utena musical. I've also been listening to all the other songs from it too on repeat)

Something to Say (Michaela Jae)

got tagged by @ambergriis to list five songs i've been into recently! i'm not usually one for tag games, but this is cute :} thank u!!

1. field of tiger lilies - kikagaku moyo

2. katarsis - she past away

3. black sand - glass beams

4. pirouette - covet

5. mun ante - jan usawi

tagging @redheaded-techpriest @londonknights @freezedriedrose @queriesntheories & @needle-thread-thimble-spear - if you feel like it, i'd love to know what's been on your rotation as of late!

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

hi i made up yet another impractical number system/nomenclature for toki pona!!

its base six or seximal, using the digits wan (1), tu (2), san (3), po (4) and luka (5) [as used in jan Usawi's song likujo]

now a lot of number systems use suffixes to denote the position of a given digit (see four = 4 , four-ty = 40, four-hundred = 400). personally i like single syllable suffixes so i could just come up with a bunch of sounds BUT. luckily there already is a really fun tp word with a lot of fairly distinct syllables in it: kijetesantakalu!

so we just add one syllable of kijetesantakalu after every digit of a number? yes! but theres once again a but! we need to either go through the word kinda in reverse order or [much more fun option!]

reverse the order of the digits! (i struggle to explain why i think this is nessecary soo.. trust me bro?). my native language german already does this (at least for double digit numbers) so thats proof enough this makes sense. okay thats a lot of abstract rambling so heres some examples:

"53" (fifsy three)

san-ki luka-je

"3514" (thirsy five nif ten)

po-ki wan-je luka-te san-sa

(i shorten san to sa to avoid ambiguity)

"142513" (ten unexian dozen five nif nine)

san-ki wan-je luka-te tu-sa po-ta wan-ka

cons:

-unnessecarily complicated and therefore against the spirit of tp

-requires knowledge of base six

-will not be widely used so youd need to link this post everytime you use it.

-not actually useful

-you could just say the digits in order

pros:

-fun :33

-seximal

-has kijetesantakalu in it

-anything is better than the current systems

-suprisingly good at large numbers (works until 6^8-1 (dec) and would be fairly easy to extend)

[janmisali]

hi usawi

[universalthaumaturge]

On and on and on, unending, out to the furthest edge of time: my bullshit, everlasting!

hi!!! hello!!!! i'm thauma! and this is my tumblr!!!

she/he/they in no particular order

in my 20s

i love ttrpgs (mostly nobilis and nobilis-related products, exalted, world/chronicles of darkness, pathfinder and fabula ultima- i also wanna get into gubat banwa and scion!) (also i'm making my own too >:3c)

i Like Linguistics a Lot, it's a Fun Field For me

mi kama sona e toki pona! mi ijo Tama (telo ante ma anpa) anu jan Uni (usawi nasa ijo)! (i'm learning toki pona! my name is Thauma or Uni!)

radically inclusive, kink tomato, you do you etc etc; i think most discourse is asinine

when i get into something new i'll spam-reblog a bunch of posts about it

i am a furry, so if you follow be ready to see some animal people in your dash sometimes

i use :D and T~T and ^_^ and such :p

new-fangled linux user :D i got the extension that makes your windows wobble it's great

kinda somewhat occultist? i mostly know medieval european alchemy but i DO know a lil bit about tarot and geomancy. for fun yknow

please feel free to send me asks and dms and tags and such!!! i'll probably take a few days to answer on account of the Problem, but i swear it means the world to me!!!!!!!!!!!!

also please tell me if i make a social mistake during conversation, i am denser than osmium :z

Brazilian sideblog pra quem fala português: @thauma-verdjamarelo

fare thee well!!!!!!

[twig-gy]

(Spoiler anon)

Uh, look

For the second time, however long it’s been

I’m disappointed in your latest vid

You’re spoiling Deltarune in it again

P-P-Post that

(jan Misali)

What the hell are you posting?

How is a name a spoiler, won’t let me know

Just play the game, you and blue maned, leave me alone

The anthony's on my trail, my videos unavailable

I'ma tell 'em “o tawa weka”

I’ve got a lot of anons, on and on

Getting real strange

In my inbox

Saying apple’s hot men

Blasted down the tags on blogs

But that catastrophe

Doesn’t matter now because I had a strike

Copyright about wreaking havoc on Caramelldansen

Kinda shocking it’s still on Bandcamp

No precision, just vague and threatening, claim and blocking, Kotaku’s talking

Counter, counterclaim, and another

Counter, counterclaim

Giovanni

It don't matter, here’s a video about homestuck

[stay-away-from-the-sun]

jan Usawi - oww

[otesunki]

i looked through your posts as i usually do before following someone but i didn’t rb any of them so now it just looks like i followed you for agreeing with my chonny jash jan Usawi take……….

my opinions are SO powerful they singlehandedly distort reality. i have Humes

[mini-games]

Hypothetically, how does one start learning toki pona?

(I say hypothetically because I have ADHD and learning a language is a very long-term process lmao)

(first paragraph is mostly justt rambling, feel free to skip over lol)

Actually, because of how small the language is, toki pona doesn't take that long to learn! The hardest part is just memorizing the sentence structure pattern, that's IT. It's quite simple, really. Keeping in mind that I'm actually scheduled to be getting an ADHD evaluation in a month, it's really easy to learn in my opinion. Even the toki pona anon (who I taught toki pona) thought at first that sey wouldn't be able to learn! But here they are.

ANYWAYS rant over. I have several resources that I use, however if you simply want to know what toki pona is, I recommend going to tokipona.org since that is the official website.

If you decide you want to learn, then jan Misali has a series on learning toki pona, which I find INCREDIBLY helpful for learning toki pona. There are also several other videos on toki pona on youtube!

Here is a link to a helpful english-to-toki pona and toki pona-to-english translator that I often use when I need to remember a word.

..And last but not least, ilo Linku is an INCREDIBLY helpful toki pona online dictionary with all the official words and nimisin (made up words)!

Also, as a little extra, I love jan Usawi's music a ton. Highly recommend.

Hopefully this helps!