#nimi sin ike

[kasisulipikalasuwi]

suwili

[towersofviolet]

v's sfth toki pona translation #1

i decided to smoosh two hyperfixations together and translated one of shoot from the hip's improvised sketches into toki pona. this is "heinous crimes of treason" from "completely improvised sketches #11", a.k.a. luke as a draconian monarch sending people down into the crocodile-infested waters below. it's literally just a transcript so won't make much sense without the accompanying video.

musi sin nanpa 11: ike a tawa lawa

jan Ton: tenpo ni la mi pali e musi tawa sina. musi nanpa wan la mi wile e toki open. ken la ni li kama tan ma ni. ni li toki open.

jan mute: [kalama mute]

jan Ton: ni li seme?

jan: a! mun li len e suno. ni li suno a!

jan Ton: a! mun li len e suno. ni li suno a! pona a. o pana e ijo tan ma ni.

jan ante nanpa wan: mi moli e waso.

jan ante nanpa tu: o tawa e ona lon anpa.

jan ante nanpa tu wan: mi kama mama.

jan Ton: “o tawa e ona lon anpa.” ni li toki sina anu seme? lukin sina li pana e suno. ni li nasa a. “o tawa e ona lon anpa.” ni li pona tawa mi. ni la jan ante li jo e nasin ante mute. mi open kepeken ni:  “o tawa e ona lon anpa.” jan ale o kalama luka suli tawa open!

jan mute: [mu]

jan Lu: o tawa e ona lon anpa!

jan San: [mu]

jan Lu: [kalama musi nasa]

jan San: ona li anpa, lawa mi o. jan sin li tawa lon lupa pi akesi suli.

jan Lu: [kalama musi nasa] ni li pona tawa mi. ona li pali ike a.

jan San: jan ni li seme, lawa mi o?

jan Lu: mu… ona li kalama musi tawa mi.

jan San: lon.

jan Lu: sina pana e sona seme kepeken nimi “lon”?

jan San: taso… mi kute e toki sina. ni li lon.

jan Lu: mi lukin e ni: sina sewi e linja pi sewi lukin sina.

jan San: [kalama musi]

jan Lu: sina kalama musi tawa mi. ni li tan seme?

jan San: mi kalama musi ala tawa sina. mi pilin ike tan ni. mi-

jan Lu: o tawa e ona lon anpa!

jan San: a! o tawa ala e mi lon anpa! o tawa ala e mi lon anpa! o tawa ala e mi lon anpa!

jan Ese: [mu]

jan San: [mu]

jan Lu: [kalama musi nasa]

jan Ese: jan sin li moli, lawa sina- mi o.

jan mute: [kalama musi]

jan Lu: sina toki e seme?

jan Ese: mi pilin ike tan ni. tenpo mute la nasin toki mi li kama… nimi ante. mi toki e ni: jan sin li moli, lawa si- mi o. ma mama mi la…

jan Lu: o tawa e ona lon anpa!

jan Ese: ala, ala! o awen! o awen! o awen! ala!

jan Ton: [mu]

jan Ese: [mu]

jan Lu: [kalama musi nasa]

jan Ese: [mu]

jan Ton: ona li moli, lawa mi o.

jan Lu: lon! ni li pona tawa mi. ona li pali ike a.

jan Ton: lon, lawa mi o.

jan Lu: sina lukin e mi tan seme?

jan Ton: mi kute taso e sina, lawa mi o.

jan Lu: ni li pona tawa mi lon tenpo ni.

jan Ton: ni li wowa* ala tawa mi, lawa mi o.

jan Lu: ni li seme tawa sina?

jan Ton: ni li wawo* ala tawa mi, lawa mi o.

jan Lu: wowo*?

jan Ton: ni li ike tawa mi. mi wile e ni: mi ante e ijo. taso, mi sona e ni: mi pakala!

jan Lu: o tawa e ona lon anpa a!

jan San: [mu]

jan Lu: [kalama musi nasa]

jan San: [kalama musi sama] lawa mi o, mi pali tawa sina. ni li pona tawa mi.

jan Lu: jan sama weka o!

jan San: lon! mi lon! tenpo sike mute pini la sina tawa e mi lon anpa. sina sona ala sona e ni? [kalama musi nasa]

jan Lu: [kalama monsuta]

jan San: [kalama nasa]

jan Lu: sina li lon sin tan seme?

jan San: weka la mi pilin ike, jan sama o. ni la mi en akesi suli en jan meli mute en jan lili mute en jan awen mute li lon. ona li lon tan ni: sina tawa e ona lon anpa. mi pilin ike tan ni: mi ken ala toki tawa jan.

jan Lu: a! sina walo tawa mi. sina monsuta tawa mi, jan sama o.

jan San: ni li tan ni: mi monsuta.

jan Lu: [mu monsuta] a! ala!

jan San: mi la sina sona e wile sina.

jan Lu: o tawa e ona lon anpa!

jan San: sina ken ala tawa e monsuta lon anpa. mi tawa sewi. [mu]

jan Lu: lon.

jan San: sina ken taso weka e mi tan ni: sina lukin e sijelo mi. sina kama jo e… sijelo moli mi.

jan Lu: o tawa e mi lon anpa!

jan San: … mi monsuta.

jan Ton: ni li tenpo pini! o kalama luka tawa ona!

jan ale: [kalama luka a]

[adhdo5]

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MI WILE PANA ESUN E SITELEN PI LIPU LON A

tenpo lon la sina ken kama jo a e sitelen ni kepeken mani pi suli mute ala! sina ken esun e sitelen pi kule mute e sitelen pi kule ala kin. sitelen kule li lon lipu pi suli 5.5"x8.5"

mi ken sitelen e jan musi mute! sina musi toki la mi ken sitelen e jan musi sina! mi ken sitelen e jan soweli, e jan ilo, e jan monsuta; mi ken sitelen e olin; mi ken sitelen e pakala sijelo. kulupu esun o pakala ala e mi; wile sina o pakala ala e wile mi ni; ni tu li lon la mi ken sitelen e jan musi ale!

mi pini e sitelen ni la mi pana e sitelen ale pi wile sina kepeken ilo; sina wile jo e sitelen kule lon la o pana e sona pi ma sina e mani tawa ni

LAWA MI: mi wile ala sitelen ni: jan lili li kama pakala. kin, sina wile e sitelen pi jan lon la, ona o sona e ni: mi sitelen e ona. kin, mi wile ala sitelen e unpa. mi wile ala sitelen tan ijo ante la mi ken toki e ni li ken esun ala. o awen e sona pi nimi mi. o pana esun sin ala. o kepeken ala tawa nasin mani ike. sina wile pana e sitelen tawa ilo la o toki tawa mi lon open

[kasilitawa]

ante ala - sitelen "Second Nature" tan musi Kalupa

jan Misaki li suwi mute a!

mi pilin lape la ni li ken pakala :< taso mi wile pana e ona lon tenpo ni. ona li jo e pakala la ike mi a

nasin pi sitelen nimi li "sitelen seli kiwen"

(kin la... mi pali e lipu Jutu sin! o lukin!)

[mayajadeart]

I love that jan Misali first learned about the academic field of game theory when people kept mentioning it in the comments of their video about hangman, and now they're on tumblr posting shit like this. Truly a jan who speaks for our generation. sina pali e ijo pi namako nasa mute la mi sona ala o awen. pona! anu... pona ala... anu pona! pona ala li sama e pona. anu... ala? mi sona ala! ;-;

the additive group of day-2 normal partizan games

recently I've been trying to gain a deeper understanding of one very small subset of the class of normal partizan games: the games that are born on or before day 2. I've explained the general concept on main before, so I'll assume you're already familiar with the idea.

to recap, there are 22 games under the normal play convention that end after at most two moves. three moves extends that to 1474, and beyond that many moves it's an open question.

normal partizan games can be added together to form new normal partizan games. analyzing when a complicated game can be broken down into the sum of multiple other simpler games is one of the most important concepts in combinatorial game theory.

the sum of games has the properties that it's associative ((F + G) + H = F + (G + H)) and commutative (G + H = H + G), just like regular addition. so what I'm interested in is what happens if you ignore the game-ness of these games and just explore the behavior of the sums of these particular small games as an abelian group. that is, given two games G and H expressed in the form of some number of day-2 games all added together (allowing duplicates), when does G equal H? and I uh, almost understand it? but not everything.

the generative set

while these 22 games are all very simple, we don't really need all 22 of them. I'm not 100% sure how small of a generative set you can reduce them to, but I've been able to cut it down to just ten:

*2 = {0,*|0,*}

½ = {0|1}

-½ = {-1|0}

↑ = {0|*}

↓ = {*|0}

±1 = {1|-1}

±½ = {½|-½}

{½|-½*}

{1|0,*}

{0,*|-1}

the ones I've put in red are not actually day-2 games, but they can be expressed as the sums of other day-2 games, so they're fine to use. they could be replaced with actual day-2 games, but I think these particular forms make the math easier. and the last two are uh, weird. I don't know what their deal is.

anyway, all day-2 games (and by extension all sums of day-2 games) can be represented as the sum of some combination of members of this generative set. I won't explain how for all of them because it's pretty trivial a lot of the time, but here are some of the highlights:

the zero game can be reached by adding any game to its negative, or alternatively it just doesn't need to be part of the generative set because the "empty sum" comes for free

the switches {1|0} and {0|-1} can be represented as ½±½ and -½±½, respectively

the hot game {1|*} has the property that {1|*} + {1|*} = 1 + * = 1*. this suggests that it could be broken down into a "one half" component and a "star halves" component. */2 is not a unique value (there are in fact infinitely many games which when added to themselves equal star), but {½|-½*}, one half less than {1|*}, does indeed have the property that when added to itself you get * as we'd expect, and since * is its own negative, three copies of {½|-½*} can be added together to get its negative.

adding these games together

a lot about the behavior of the sums of games is already very well-documented. as I said, this is one of the key concepts in combinatorial game theory.

within this generative set, three games are their own negatives (*2, ±1, and ±½), which simplifies things a lot. they essentially don't interact with anything else in the group. "star halves" works in a similar way, as described earlier.

numbers and arrows also don't interact with each other. ↑ is infinitesimal, smaller than every positive surreal number but still positive.

if we ignore the hot fuzzy game {1|0,*} and its negative, everything else then is pretty straightforward. games in this group can be broken down into a number part, an arrow part, a "star halves" part, a *2 part, and two switch parts. the sum of two games in this group can then be handled in all of those parts individually without needing to worry about any of these parts bleeding into each other.

but what of the hot fuzzy games {1|0,*} and {0,*|-1}? do they interact with anything else?

and I don't have the answer to that. they're really weird! {1|0,*} is hot (players have an incentive to move) and fuzzy (whoever makes the first move wins), but {1|0,*} added to itself is positive! I don't think these games will ever combine with something in this group to form something that could have been expressed without using them, but I also don't know how I would go about proving that.

anyway that's just what I've been thinking about recently

[suwelili]

mi wile ala toki "jan lili" li toki pona: mi wile toki mute "jan sin" … "lili" jasima "suli", en "suli" ni li ken toki tan "important"... mi pilin e ni sama: nimi "jan suli" li toki ike kin.

i don't like saying "jan lili" ("small person"/"child") in toki pona; i prefer to say "jan sin" ("new person") … "lili" mirrors "suli" ("big") which can also mean "important"... similarly, i think "jan suli" ("adult") is bad too.

[mymo-in-bb]

Intro Post / pana open

(toki pona li lon anpa)

Okay so. I thought maybe making an intro post might be a good idea, but I have no idea what I'm doing, so I analysed the intro posts of some of the blogs I follow and I'll try to do something similar.

Hi! My name is Rosalind, (she/her, though they is fine too i guess)

Between struggling with uni, I sometimes make music. I'll try to post most of it here. I play the saxophone, clarinet and piano. If you hear any other instruments in my music, I used a sampler. Right now I'm mainly focusing on Jazz, though a lot of my music really isn't that. I don't know what genre I'd label it as.

I also worldbuild quite a bit, which includes conlanging. I really love linguistics, but I'm very much an amateur. I might post some worldbuilding or conlanging related stuff here and there.

I don't expect to post any programming related stuff here, but hey, it might happen.

This blog is supposed to be a more of an "artist-like" sideblog, about the things I create, but I also have a personal blog where I mostly just reblog things I like: @bbmymo

So, you can expect music, worldbuilding, conlanging and very amateur linguistics from this blog. I will post very infrequently.

Last things to say: feel free to ask about anything, if you think something here is wrong or poorly done please let me know.

I will try to post in English and toki pona, but I'll see how that goes for me, I am still very much new to the language. If my toki pona translations are bad or could be improved, please rub it in my face

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a, mi pilin e ni: ken la, pali pi pana open li pona. taso, mi sona ala e pali mi. ni la, mi lukin e pana open pi lipu toki ante, li alasa pali e ijo sama.

toki a! mi jan Losalin (nimi meli).

mi utala ala tan tomo sona la, mi pali e kalama musi. mi alasa pana e ona ala tawa lipu ni. mi musi e ilo kalama Sakasa, e ilo kalama Lalinete, e ilo kalama Pijano. sina kute e ilo kalama ante lon kalama musi mi la, mi kepeken ilo kalama nanpa. tenpo ni la, mi lukin suli e kalama musi Jasi. taso, kalama musi mi mute li kalama musi Jasi ala. mi sona ala e nasin ona.

kin la, mi pali e ma pali: mi pali kin e toki pali. mi olin a e sona toki. taso, mi jan sona ala. ken la, mi pana e ma pali mi e toki pali mi lon ni.

mi pilin e ni: mi pana ala e ijo pi toki nanpa lon ni. taso, mi sona ala.

lipu ni li sama lipu pi jan mama musi. kin la, mi jo e lipu jan mi: @bbmymo. lipu ni la, mi pana lipu e ijo pona: jan ante li pali e ona.

kin la, sina ken alasa e kalama musi mi, e ma pali mi, e toki pali mi, e sona toki pi jan sona ala, lon lipu ni. mi pana sin lon tenpo mute ala.

pini la mi wile toki e ni: sina ken toki alasa e ale. sina pilin e ni: ijo li ike la: o toki e ni tawa mi.

mi alasa pana e pana kepeken toki Inli kepeken toki pona. taso, mi sin lon toki pona. mi kama lukin e ni pini tawa mi. toki pona mi li ike la, o toki e ni tawa mi a!

[ranboo5]

EN: I've been told there's a formalized method for submitting propaganda to this bracket and because this has awakened a vicious instinct within me I will participate

Techno and Wilbur are not nothing Pogtopia did slay and the Techno+Ghostbur interactions are excellent. In many circumstances I would vote this. In many circumstances I would campaign or this. And in general I tend to vote cTechno over cRanboo. So it is not lightly that I say

VOTE BURGERDUO

The lame ass 5D chess game we got to see during burger arc was a highlight of the otherwise dismal prolonged petering out of the SMP and also was fantastic

Common foil dynamic W

They have separate c and cc duo names because of how influential the cduo is

Man this shit just drives me insane. Each sees himself in the other and for cWilbur this is initially a second chance a validation and for cRanboo this is a condemnation and the culmination of this w/ cRanboo fucking killing itself in front of cWilbur to change the trajectory of his life forever irreversibly changed my brain chemistry

This dynamic GAVE US cbee resolution, GAVE US cTechno apology stream and apology arc in general. The largely-unspoken spectre of cRanboo hanging in the air in Bust is unparalleled in cinema.

Even outside of burger arc, cWilbur's legacy impacted cRanboo's ideological development more directly than it did cTechno's, bc cTechno had more grounds to worry about direct manifest troubles and cRanboo had primarily to deal with dread, anticipation, and understanding how to navigate the social context it found itself in, which had been shaped by Wilbur's legacy

And finally

If you vote cRanboo and send me a screenie of you doing so I will doodle you something of your request

TOK: mi kama sona e ni: toki pi ante wile la nasin suli pi pana toki li lon. utala ni li kama e pilin utala WAWA a lon lawa mi la mi o pana

jan Tekuno pi lon ala en jan Wipa pi lon ala li lon poka la ni li ken suli, li ken musi, li ken toki e ijo mute. ni li lon. tenpo pi ma Patopija la toki ona li suli. toki ona pi jan Wipa moli kin li suli. mute la mi wile wawa e nimi pi kulupu ni, e nimi pi jan Tekuno. mi la ijo ale pi jan Tekuno li suli tawa ijo ale pi jan Lanpu. ni la sina ken sona pona e ni: mi toki e ni la mi toki WAWA, li toki e ijo SULI A:

O WAWA E NIMI PI KULUPU PAKATU

ona tu li utala toki la ni li wawa a e musi Simesenpi lon tenpo pi kama moli

ona tu li sama la musi wawa

jan lon tu ni en jan tu ni pi lon ala li jo e nimi tu ante a. kulupu pi lon ala la sina ken sona pona e suli ona tan ni

ONA! TU! LI SAMA! LA! MUSI! WAWA! ona tu li lukin sama la ona tu li toki insa e sama ni: "jan ante ni li sama mi." jan Wipa la ni li pona, li toki e ni: "mi awen ken pona, mi awen ken ante; lon mi li pakala ala! jan pi sama mi li ken lon li ken pona!" taso jan Lanpu la ni li ike, li toki e ike ona e ike pi jan Wipa. nasin ni li kama suli ike li kama wawa; jan Lanpu li moli tan ona la ni li wawa ike tawa jan Wipa. ni li wawa tawa pilin mi kin a ona li ante wawa e nasin pi lawa mi lon tenpo ale

TAN NI TASO LA musi pi kulupu Pitu li ken pini. NI TASO LA toki pini pi jan Tekuno li ken lon. NI TASO LA jan Wipa li open e nasin pi toki pakala mute. ona li wawa tawa toki suli pi musi Simesenpi. kon pi jan Lanpu li lon toki musi "pakala"; jan ale li toki lili e ona lon toki, taso kon ona li awen lon. ni li wawa a. pilin li wawa. kon li wawa.

tenpo ante la kon pi jan Wipa li suli seme tawa jan Lanpu tawa jan Tekuno? tenpo pi ma Nulemanpe la jan Tekuno li lukin e ijo ante. ona tu li wile sama, li wile awen tan ken pakala, taso jan Tekuno li wile awen tan ken lon. jan li lon, li wile lon e moli ona; ona li sona e tan, li sona e ken. taso jan Lanpu la, tan ni en ken ni li len lili. ona li sin tawa ma Simesenpi la ona li sona ala e nasin – ona li wile sona e ken pakala la ona o kama sona e nasin kulupu. jan Wipa li suli tawa pali ni. la pali pi jan Wipa li suli tawa jan Lanpu lon tenpo ni, li suli sama ala tawa jan Tekuno lon tenpo ni

ni ale li ante ala e wile sina la o sona e ni:

sina wawa e nimi pi jan Lanpu li pana e sona pi pali ni tawa mi la mi sitelen e ijo pi wile sina

[kamasona]

sitelen pona pi nimi "sewi"

tenpo pini la sitelen pona pi nimi "sewi" li nasa tawa mi. ni li tan ni: mi ken ala kama sona e nasin ona. wile sona la mi alasa lon lipu sona pona. mi kama sona e ijo sin.

sitelen pona pi nimi "sewi" li kama tan nimi pi toki Alapi "Allah". o lukin e sitelen pona e nimi pi toki Alapi:

tenpo ni la sitelen pona ona li pona tawa mi.

sitelen pona ona li kama tan nimi "Allah" la mi kepeken sitelen pona ni lon tenpo pi toki e jan sewi. mi toki e sewi sama nimi pi toki Inli "superior" la mi kepeken sitelen pona sin pi nimi ni. mi sitelen kepeken sitelen pona la ni li weka e sona tu ike. pona.

[cathack]

kon lili pi tenpo kasi

sina toki e ni: mi ike. mi pilin e ni: mi ike lili. mi wile e ni: tenpo kama la mi ken sama kon lili pi tenpo kasi. ni la mi kon tawa insa sina, li wile e ala. tenpo ni la sina olin ala e mi.

sina toki e ni: pilin mi li lete, mi pilin e moli. mi pilin e ni: lon li lawa e mi. tan ni la mi mama e kili pona mute, e kili suli mute.

lon anpa pi ma anpa, lon anpa pi ma anpa, jan pi sitelen tawa li toki tawa ona.

sina la seme li lon? sina lon toki. tenpo kama lili la toki ni li pini. sina pali mute tawa ni: sina pona wawa e ona. tenpo lili la pilin sina li ike. tenpo ale la sina lukin tawa sinpin. toki lon sina li sin tawa mi. sina ken ala ken lukin e toki ale? mi pilin e ni: ni li pana sina nanpa wan.

telo en kon li tawa e sina. sina powe mute e tawa noka. sina toki wawa, li kalama suli. sina kute e weka kalama taso.

taso ale sina la, taso ale mi la, ale ante li lon ala lon? lon ni la, ike en pona li pakala lili taso. lon ni la, ijo li weka e selo powe mute. lon ni la, lon tenpo ale la, sitelen li kama, li tawa. sina kama lon ni la, sina wile ala e awen e lukin. ken la mi ken pona e nimi ike mi. ma pi sona ala li lon poka ale. toki li lon ala. taso kalama li kalama kalama e ni: toki! toki kama! toki kama la sina o kama a! pona pi jan ale li nena ma lili taso lon ni.

(translated into Toki Pona from Mandarin Chinese)

[kon-lin]

tenpo la, jan li lukin e toki mi li toki e ni: "o kepeken ala nimi/nasin sin. ona li ike". ni li ike tawa mi. jan mute li toki e toki pona. nasin pona li mute. jan li wile ala kepeken nimisin la, ni li pona. taso, nimisin en nasin sin li pona li musi tawa mi. kama la mi awen kepeken ona. ni li ike tawa sina la, ona li suli ala tawa mi a a ;b

[twig-gy]

idk if new words are a good idea or it just shows we need to be more creative with the words we have ........ i mean should i really be this hesitant to use the word jasima? hmm

[tokiponizing-posts]

jan Sandersstudies:

ken la nena li lon. nena ni li toki e ni: “sina luka e nena ni la, lon pi jan ante ale li pona a. lon sina li ante ala.”

pilin mi la, jan pi nanpa lili li kama lukin e nena ni la, ona li luka ala e nena.

ona li toki e ni: “taso, nena ni li pona ala tawa mi.” taso, nena ante li lon ala. ona li luka e nena ni la, ona li kama jo ala e ike sin.

jan Melynnwater:

jan Cinna-bunnie o

ni li pona mute; mi o awen ala e ona lon insa nimi anpa ^_^

#jan ale li lon pona la sina lon pona kin tan ni: lon pi jan ale li pona a

#ona li pana ala e lon pona tawa sina anu seme? lon sina en lon ona li poka ala anu seme? ona li weka ala tan sina

#sina wawa e jan ale; ona li poka e sina

I genuinely believe that some people could encounter a button that says “if you push this button everyone in the world has the opportunity to live a better life and your life remains exactly the same” and they would not push it.

They’d be like “well that button’s not fair to me, though,” even though there’s literally no other buttons around and nothing newly bad would happen to them if the button was pushed.

[adhdo5]

toki ike

kepeken nimi sin mute

pakala pi nimi lon

nimi "la" mute

nimi "li" mute

kalama pi toki Mewika

ante nimi taso

[vague-humanoid]

PALi PiNi

tenpo sike ni la ijo ike suli li lon. mi lon insa pi pilin ike. mi ken weka ala tan ni.

taso ijo pona wan li ni: mi kama sona e toki pona! mi toki insa kepeken toki ni la, mi ken sona pona e pilin mi.

lawa mi li kepeken toki pona la, mi pali e kalama musi kepeken ona.

mi wile e ni: kalama musi ni li pona tawa sina!

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This has been a hellish year, and in the particular depths of a bad situation I coped by hyperfixating on learning toki pona. As the circumstances were complex and confusing, the simplicity of the language was helpful for emotional processing. This combined with the fact that I tend to use music as a kind of emotional exorcism to result in this incredibly obscure gothy EBM darkwave type song. Enjoy (?).

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written by Shonalika

produced by Shonalika and Will Fox

mastered by Will Fox

Videography and direction by Vesper Morningstar/Venom Visuals (IG: @vespermorningstar)

pona tawa jan Lute

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nimi:

sina lon insa lawa mi

mi pilin pona suli

ni li tan seme?

ni li tan seme?

sina jo e nasin suwi

sina pona lukin tawa mi, taso

ni li open taso

ni li open taso

mi o toki tawa sina anu seme?

mi o pali. taso sina sama lete

mi toki mute, sina kute ala kute?

mi o awen, mi o pona anu seme?

ala, mi pali pini ale

mi wile e ijo sin

o alasa e ante

mi pali pini kin

mi pali pini

sina lon insa lawa mi

mi pilin ike tan ni

ni li tan seme?

ni li tan seme? mi toki

sina pakala

sina tawa wawa

sina monsuta

tan mi utala

tan ni: sina toki ala

sina toki ala

a, sina pakala?

sina sona e pona?

ni li lon?

taso tenpo kama la sina ken ala ken e nasin ante a?

mi ken sona e ni kepeken nasin seme?

mi wile e sina, taso

mi wile mama ala e sina, tenpo

ni la, mi wile toki sin ala

sina ken kama suli, anu weka

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[janpalakisu]

WA!! (Hakui Koyori: WAO!!)

o ken mi la mi pilin e pilin sina

wa!

mi sona e ni “ken ala” t-tan, t-tan, mi pilin apeja mi ken powe ala t-tan, t-tan, mi sona palisa

mi taso li ken tawa suno suno ike? weka? mi kalama ala e ni mi ken ala e lape awen t-tan, t-tan, noka li tawa ale

wan, wan, pali wi pali pi lili la sona alasa jume li sona jan pi mi wile, jan pi olin sina mi wile e ni: ni li suwi

a a a ni li pali ike pi suli sin mi pilin ike ken pakala mi taso mi wile e lukin sina mi awen tawa sina la mi pilin pona

WA WA, o kalama anpa, olin, pilin pona soweli WA WA, o kalama mi wile e ni: sina sona e mi anpa

o ken mi la mi pilin e pilin sina

sona pi “mi pali seme?” li tawa pilin mi ni li tawa weka la ale li pona

mi ken lape ala, nimi “awen” li seme? mi ken pini pakala ala, la mi pakala sin

wan wan pali o powe moli ala, o tawa poki mi sina pi wile mute en mi pi pana mute la mi pilin pi pali suli awen

a a a ni li pali ike pi suli sin mi pilin ike ken pakala taso mi wile e lukin sina mi awen tawa sina la mi pilin pona

t-tan

mi wan taso la mi pali ala wi kulupu la wi kalama wa a sina ken kalama “kama sin” mi wile e ni: sina sona e mi pona

WA WA, o kalama anpa, olin, pilin pona soweli WA WA, o kalama mi wile e ni: sina sona e mi anpa

mi taso li ken tawa suno suno ike? weka? mi kalama ala e ni pakala ale ken seli suli o nasin nasa ala o tawa pona

o ken mi la mi pilin e pilin sina pakala ala? sina pona?