Toki Pona Explained: Driving Change through Language
Fabio
#toki_sona
Do Constructed Languages Serve Purposes Beyond Personal Ones?
Sat, Jul 24, 2021 2:00 PM EDT
Dr. Joseph Windsor of the University of Calgary
jan mute la musi nasa li mute ...
Trying to render "Plus on est de fous, plus on rit."
Alex42 | 8 Jan 2015
I don't think the creator is under the impression that this will be as useful as Spanish on your holiday to Benidorm. But there are other uses. Lots of people believe they're bad at languages, mostly due to the inept, half-hearted way they're taught in schools. However learning an easy language like this could give people the confidence to attempt a "proper" language.
Also by having to come up with your own definitions for everything and still be understood, it sounds like a fantastic tool for boosting your mental agility as well as being fun.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/08/toki-pona-invented-language-memrise
Alex42 | 8 Jan 2015
Very interesting! The hardest thing about having a conversation in another language is realising that you don't know the word for a specific thing and then having to come up with another way of expressing yourself without missing a beat. It's like playing Articulate.
We were moving house and I remember wanting to say "that pile of CDs" in Spanish, but not knowing the word for pile. I substituted "mountain" which is clearly wrong but is still perfectly understandable. This language seems tailor-made for people who are good at doing that sort of thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/08/toki-pona-invented-language-memrise
Toki Pona Koans
packet_node | 2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/iyjks6/toki_pona_koans/
Toki Pona Koans
packet_node | 2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/iyjks6/toki_pona_koans/
Toki Pona Koans
packet_node | 2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/iyjks6/toki_pona_koans/
Discurso interpretación Sim/Consec ES - Toki Pona
Andrea Nieto | 31 Oct. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqaWfliskU
#TokiPona #Spanish #Epanja #kalama_tawa #toki_sona #jan_sona #kama_sona #leson #anno2016
IDIOMAS
Toki Pona-La virtud de la Simpleza
31 mayo, 2016
toki sona / proverbs
nasin ale
Life path
nasin pona li mute.
There are many good ways. There are many ways to do something. All roads lead to Rome.
ante li kama.
Everything changes. Times change.
mi pona e ale mi, la mi pona e mi. When I improve all areas of my life, I make myself better.
ike li kama.
Shit happens. Problems tend to arise.
ale li jo e tenpo.
Everything has its time.
ale li pona.
Things are good. Life is Beautiful.
nasin ante li pona tawa jan ante. Different paths are good for different people. To each his own.
sina pana e ike, la sina kama jo e ike.
If you do evil, you will receive evil.
suno li lon poka pimeja.
Light is next to darkness. The unity of opposites. Yin and Yang.
jan
Man
o olin e jan poka.
Love thy neighbour.
jan li suli mute. mani li suli lili. People are more important than money.
jan lili li sona ala e ike. Children are innocent.
utala li ike.
Conflicts are bad.
mi weka e ike jan, la mi weka e ike mi.
When I forgive someone's evil, I cleanse myself of evil.
meli en mije
Men and women
lupa meli li mama ale.
The female womb is the mother of everything.
palisa li lawa e mije.
Dick rules a man
meli li nasa e mije.
Women drive men crazy
sona
Wisdom
sin en ante li sin e lawa li pana e sona.
Novelty and change purify the mind and provide understanding.
jan sona li jan nasa.
A sage is a fool. Geniuses think unconventionally.
weka lili li pona tawa lawa. Temporary isolation is good for meditation. To understand something, you need to look from the side.
wile sona li mute e sona. Curiosity gives wisdom. A man learns by asking questions.
pali
Job
o sona ala. o pali.
Stop thinking. Take action.
sona pona li sona sewi ala. ona li sona mute ale.
Real wisdom is not knowledge of the special things, but a little knowledge of everything.
pali li pana e sona.
Work gives experience.
o sona e sina!
Get to know yourself!
toki
Language
toki li pona.
Communication is good.
toki pona li toki pona.
Toki Pona is a good language.
ike
Evil
nasin mani li ike.
Capitalism is bad.
jo ijo li ike e jan.
Property degrades people.
ma
Ecology
o pana e pona tawa ma.
Love the Earth. Take care of the world.
sijelo
Health
telo li pona.
Water is good.
lape li pona.
Sleep and rest are good.
wawa li lon insa.
Strength comes from within. Youth in the heart.
pilin pona li pana e sijelo pona. Positive emotions give health.
toki sona
jan Anti / May. 6th, 2013
toki sona li suli tawa nasin pi toki ali. tan ni la mi wile sitelen e toki sona pi pali kepeken toki pona. tenpo mute la toki ni li pona lon toki pali taso. jan li wile toki e sama kepeken toki ante la, toki li ike kalama. mi wile sitelen e ni tawa awen sona.
jan sona li toki ala.
jan toki li sona ala
- jan Kipo
mi sona e ni taso:
mi sona ala.
- jan Alitotele (kepeken pi toki pona li tan mi)
mi lukin e toki sona ante la, ken la mi ante e lipu ni.
Toki sona
Tomas.Klapka | Mar 31, 2002
http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=10
#TokiPona #translation #toki_sona #quotations #iki #ona #March #anno2002
Tout dire avec 120 mots
SYLVAIN LUMBROSO | 27-06-2017
https://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/balados/tout-dire-avec-120-mots/
Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants Screening & Panel
In 2018 we are pleased to launch “Standing on the shoulders of Giants” our new “Science” documentary category which will accept films for 2019.
This prelaunch event will host a prestigious panel, of eminent scientists and film makers to discuss the importance of science on the big screen.
As part of the event we will be screening Before the Big Bang 5 featuring the late Stephen Hawking and his collaborators James Hartle and Thomas Hertzog, this documentary explores their ‘No Boundary Proposal’ of the origins of the universe.
Our esteemed panel will feature:
Hannah Joshua, New Scientist Subeditor
After completing a masters’ degree in theoretical physics at Imperial College London, Hannah branched out into science journalism, joining the team at New Scientist as a subeditor.
In her time working for the magazine, she has appeared in Facebook live streams as Seven of Nine from Star Trek and learned a constructed language called Toki Pona for a feature on apps that can help us become bilingual.
When not busy editing the latest science and technology news, she can be found writing about her wacky inventions like teabag-dunking robots, pairs of shoes that summon taxis and phone chargers powered by applause. She also makes bite-size videos to showcase her creations and the deceptively simple circuits they contain.
[...]
http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/standing-shoulders-giants-screening-panel/
toki pona expressions and phrases
Flashcard Machine | 01/26/2016
Toki Pona proverbs
ale li jo e tenpo.
There is a time and place for everything. Everything in its right context.
ale li pona.
Life is great. All is good. Life is beautiful. Everything will be OK.
ante li kama.
Change comes. Times change.
ike li kama.
Bad things will happen. Bad comes. Shit happens.
jan li suli mute. mani li suli lili.
People are more important than money.
jan sona li jan nasa.
A wise man is a fool. A genius thinks unconventionally.
lupa meli li mama ale.
A woman's womb is the mother of all things.
mi pona e ale mi, la mi pona e mi.
When I improve all areas of my life, I am making myself good.
mi weka e ike jan, la mi weka e ike mi.
When I forgive and forget somebody's wrongdoings, I cleanse myself of negativity.
nasin ante li pona tawa jan ante.
Different ways are good for different people. Different strokes for different folks.
nasin pona li mute.
The good ways are many. There are many right ways of doing things. There are many valid truths. All roads lead to Rome.
o olin e jan poka.
Love thy neighbour.
o sona e sina!
Know thyself!
o toki ala. o pali.
Stop thinking. Do stuff.
pali li pana e sona.
Actions give knowledge. One learns by experience.
pilin pona li pana e sijelo pona.
Positive feelings grant good health. Mind over matter.
sin en ante li sin e lawa li pana e sona.
Novelty and change freshen the mind and bring insight.
sina pana e ike, la sina kama jo e ike.
If you give evil, you will receive evil. What negativity you send out will return to you.
suno li lon poka pimeja.
Light is beside darkness. Opposites are interconnected. Yin and yang.
toki pona li toki pona.
Toki Pona is a good language.
wawa li lon insa.
Energy comes from inside. Youth is all in the heart.
weka lili li pona tawa lawa.
Temporary isolation is good for meditation. It is good to remove yourself momentarily from something to really understand it.
wile sona li mute e sona.
Curiosity feeds wisdom. One learns by asking questions.
#TokiPona #proverbs #nasin_toki #linja_toki #janSonja #toki_sona #anno2011
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http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=1921
#TokiPona #ken #modals #nimi_pali #discussion #toki_sona #nimi_namako #anno2011
Toki Pona is excellent for proverbs and sayings.
mani li ala pona anu ike.
"Knowing that you don’t know something is different than knowing what the something is that you don’t know. It might be bullshit, but it’s still there; it doesn’t have to be true to have mass and take up space. “Eskimos have fifty words for snow” is one of those things that people say, a phrase that will go on living in your brain, unused but not thrown away, buried at the bottom of the drawer like a power adaptor to a console you no longer have but will never quite rid yourself of. And when we hit something like this—when we run aground on this point at which all we know is what we don’t—we discover something interesting: just as knowledge has substance, shape, and structure, so does ignorance."
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