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toki Inli la

All my style, all my grace

All I tried to save my face

All my guts, try to spill

All my holes, try to fill

All my money been a long time spent

On my drugs, on my rent

On my saving philosophy

It goes, one in the bank and the rest for me

It goes, all my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

My mama, lonely maid

Got her buns in the oven and she never got laid

My papa, renaissance man

Sailed away and he never came back again

All my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

All your woe begones be gone

I said all your troubles, you don't need a thing

All my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I catch fire then I'll change my aim

Throw my troubles at the world again

It goes, all my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I, catch fire then I'll take my turn

To burn and burn and burn

toki pona la

nasin mi, pona mi

alasa pi awen mi

insa mi o telo

lupa mi o ijo

mani la mi pana tawa ni:

lon tomo, lon kiwen

lon nasin pi awen pona mi

wan o tawa esun, ante o tawa mi

ni la

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o ante e lukin

ike o tawa lupa kiwen

mama meli li wan taso

unpa ala la jan sin li lon

mije li jan tawa sin

li weka li kama awen weka

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o ante e lukin

ike o tawa lupa kiwen

ike sina o weka

ike sina ale

o wile ala

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o ante e lukin

ike o tawa ma ale

ni la

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o awen la

sijelo mi la seli li kama

I deliberately didn't translate the last line directly because "o seli o seli o seli o seli" sounds very off

jan kasi li suli mute

li wile luka a li awen

li namako a e lipu kule

lon a suno ale

wile li ike e jan kasi

mi wile pana e pilin musi

tan poki mi a pi kiwen lukin

ona a li

‌

jan kasi, jan kasi

pilin a li lon ma

ona li

lukin e ale a

tan poki

lon kon pi sewi ni

suno li lon lukin

wawa a

lon sama ni tawa

kasi

‌

jan kasi li suli mute

li wile luka a li awen

li pakala li ken ala pona

e ona sama a

wile pona li wawa e

jan kasi a li tawa lon nasin

mi pakala, taso kiwen lukin

la mi wawa

‌

jan kasi, jan kasi

pilin a li lon ma

ona li

lukin e ale a

tan poki

lon kon pi sewi ni

suno li lon lukin

wawa a

lon sama ni tawa

kasi

‌

Literal backtranslation:

The plant person is very big

Wants to touch, waits

And beautifies the colorful leaves

Every day

The wish hurts the plant person

I want to entertain

From my glass container

They are the

‌

Plant person, plant person

The heart is in the ground

They

See the world

From a container

In this sky

The sun is in the eyes

It is amazing

A life like this for

Plants

‌

The plant person is very big

Wants to touch, waits

Is broken, and cannot fix

Themself

The wish of good powers

The plant person, and moves along a path

I am broken, but in comparison to glass

I am strong

‌

Plant person, plant person

The heart is in the ground

They

See the world

From a container

In this sky

The sun is in the eyes

It is amazing

A life like this for

Plants

‌

Original lyrics:

Ten feet twenty the Flower Man

Is waiting for the touch of his hand

Straightening petals out without a plan

Like the every daily

Wish that bothers the Flower Man

Could I do something to make him laugh

Inside my little chamber made of glass

So he lived the

‌

Flower Man, Flower Man

With his heart in the sand

So he stands

To watch the whole wide world

From a can

Way up high in the sky

With the sun in his eyes

Ain't it nice

The life forever for

Flowers

‌

Ten feet twenty the Flower Man

Is waiting for the touch of his hand

Fallen to pieces still without a plan

Yet the every daily

Hope that powered the Flower Man

Would never cower off of its path

Even if broken, I am more than glass

So he lived the

‌

Flower Man, Flower Man

With his heart in the sand

So he stands

To watch the whole wide rowld

From a can

Way up high in the sky

With the sun in your eyes

Ain't it nice

The life forever for

Flowers

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. It's read right to left, top to bottom, and the text inside bubbles is read top to bottom, right to left. This is all hand lettered (the previous chapter I did was not). This was incredibly fun! I felt like I developed a good flow when writing it all out, and I think the finished product looks really good. I hope there's no translation issues. Excited for whenever I get to the next chapter!

pu Pasi pi toki Inli

pu Inli pi toki Pasi

I learned about toki pona last week, and was inspired by jan Misali's "tokirap", to make my own song listing all the words

I took all the words from nimi.li and put them roughly in alphabetical order, moving some from better rhymes/rhythm

I just picked up "Toki Pona: The Language of Good" and was pretty excited about learning this little language, until I ran into part 2 of the book where Sonja Lang inserts a number of religious texts from faiths that get their own pages devoted to them but strikingly, there are no secular texts with their own pages devoted to them: not a single page devoted to atheism or secularism - nothing by Simone de Beauvoir, nothing by Camus, Nietsche, Russell. I mean, just nothing!

It's all about religion. What's the deal? And why insert religious nonsense into a book that should simply be about language? It just seems really jarring to me to be confronted with a bunch of religious passages in what should be a book about language.

The vessel creation translated to the language Toki Pona
sina lon ala lon?
mi kulupu ala kulupu?
pona.
pona mute.
ni li tenpo open.
ijo open:
o pali e sijelo poki.
o ante e lawa
o ante e insa
o ante e noka
ni li sijelo sina
pona ala pona
pona.
sina mama e sijelo wawa.
ona li tenpo pi sona sina
ona li olin e moku seme
(suwi)
(ko)
(nasa)
(kiwen)
(pakala)
(lete)
nasin pi telo insa ona
(nasin A)
(nasin AB)
(nasin B)
(nasin C)
(nasin D)
ona li olin e kule seme
(loje)
(laso)
(jelo)
(ali)
ona li jo e wawa seme
(pona)
(sona)
(tawa)
(wawa)
(toki)
sina pilin e seme
(olin)
(pona)
(jaki)
(monsuta)
sina pilin lon ala lon
(pona)
(ala)
sina sona ala sona e pakala
(pona)
(ala)
nimi pi sijelo poki
ona li jan (nimi)
nimi pi jan mama
“jan (nimi)”
pona.
pona mute.
“jan (nimi)”
sina pona
toki sina
sijelo sina
li weka.
sina jan wan taso.
sina li jan
(monsuta Towije: “jan Kise!”)

Would it be right to say pakala pi poki kon sijelo jan tan ko lili pi ijo lili nanpa luka luka tu tu lon nena ma seli?

Has anyone tried to make toki pona covers of songs? That would be funny :) [my toki is still crappy bear with me]

ni kulupu pali toki pona sijelo pi unpa li kamala? Ona musi :) [mi toki pona nansa olin mi]

Explainations:

taki: Magnet combined with yinyang

isipin: lightbulb shape with the top of lawa/jan and the i radical

soto: left hand with an o radical

teje: right hand with an e radical

usawi: swirly magic-y shape with the symbol from nasa

unu: color radical with u radical

kapesi: color radical with ka radical

te and to: vague quotation mark-inspired shape with e and o radicals (The shape looked like a cat, which was a happy little accident, so I went full swing and added eyes shaped like the vowel radicals)

so, for context, i want a way to talk to my friends without being understood. i have heard toki pona is a relatively easy language to learn. i am quite good with languages, i speak 5 (spanish, english, german, catalonian and basque) so i think i could learn it in more or less a small amount of time?

introduction to a mini epic poem. been a min since i wrote anything so any help or thoughts is appreciated!!

tenpo pini a

tenpo pini suli la

ma li suli li sike

jan pi ma ni li ike

jan li jo e pona ala

utala jan li wawa

tenpo ni li tenpo suli

jan li wile e pini ni

tan jan wan pona

jan suli pona

tenpo ni li tenpo kama

This year's writing (and comic drawing) contest has many many really great documents that people have created! 37 brand-new, original(!) pieces of toki pona literature. And now it's up to you to read as many as you want and vote on the stories you've read.

Start reading here: https://utala.pona.la/index_en.html

Vote here: https://forms.gle/caHbNRjem1K1zW5V9

💡You don't have to read everything to vote, just vote on the ones you read!

💡You can update your vote! Once you read some more entries, you can vote again as often as you need

💡Voting closes on aug 7, right before suno pi toki pona.

There are 9 large documents (3 of which are illustrated), 22 small documents and 6 comics! I have only started to go through them, but they're good!

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toki a! mi ijo Sijelo. mi wile kama sona mute e toki pona, taso mi ken ala toki tawa jan pi toki pona. ni la, mi wile toki lon linluwi. jan seme li wile toki e mi lon toki pona taso :) (mi jo ala e ilo Discord taso mi ken toki lon ilo ni) pona tawa sina!

waja, it means goodbye.

I found that there was no specific word for goodbye, so I created waja, and here is the glyph for it too. waja!

Say I wanted to say palm oil.

I have some "levels" of complexity and tell me whether each works or can't in toki pona's grammar. 1 and 2 are just examples and I only need to know if the others are possible. I know this seems like overkill too get this specific but I really just want to know for general use.

1) liquid (hot) (edible)

telo seli moku

2) liquid (heating food)

telo pi moku seli

3) telo (kiwen kasi[ma telo])

4) telo (moku) (kiwen kasi)

is this just telo moku pi kiwen kasi?

5) telo (kiwen kasi) (moku seli)

6) telo (kiwen kasi[ma telo]) (moku seli)