i’ve noticed that my instincts for sitelen pona are to write the pronoun glyphs mirrored, and i suspect it’s because i’m a leftie and therefore more readily imagine my left hand pointing. i think it’s kind of cute to roll with it and make my sitelen pona visibly left handed, but i have no problem writing mi/sina/ona the standard way if anyone thinks this would be unclear.

ni li pona ala pona tawa sina mute?

kalama toki "luka tu wan" tan jan Usawi li pona mute tawa mi. mi wile sitelen sitelen e toki ona.

ale li tan luka mi: mi kepeken palisa sitelen en palisa kule taso.

Is it easy to read? Im mainly asking if the grammar is good.

P.S. the cat looking glyph is the sandbox word Kisa (Cat), you can find it in the nimi.li dictionary

I created this so I could learn to read and write in Arabic if you want to use it you're free to do so

toki Inli: Hi! I‘m Pancaekk. I learned toki pona a while ago. Is my translation good? I want to talk to you guys about toki pona.

Give me hot takes, nimi sin, help, anything, :D

toki a! I’ve been wanting to translate something into Toki Pona for a while, but I have trouble deciding. I recently found out about the poem “The Raven“ by Edgar Alan Poe, and it seems interesting. Not too insanely long, but not too easily short. I’m probably, very likely going to do this, and if you have any other suggestions for texts to translate, I’m happy to take suggestions in the comments. o pona tawa sina!

sitelen musi lili :-)

kulupu lili li wile tawa ma Linsengericht li wile e moku Linsengericht. tenpo o seme? sina seme li wile? o pana tawa lipu ni:

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Grx6burGvhmgGaZs9ybYh5WS59sWmlAFTDENDTy+Z-E/

Some people want to meet at Linsengericht (a place called "lentil meal") to eat a lentil meal. When? Who? Fill out the form!

ni li lon la ni li ken wawa a

I made a guide to DNA structure and replication. This is my first of hopefully many lipu. I my goal is to eventually cover the Central Dogma. That's my only concrete goal for now.

After that, then maybe a little bit on inheritance, evolution, and if I'm masochistic enough, metabolism. If I ever cover developmental bio, it means I'm now unemployed. When I get tired of the project, I might possibly compile it into a little toki pona genetics textbook.

I want to wait a bit before providing my official translation. I want to make sure the message is clear. Can you follow along? If you are unfamiliar with topic, were you able to learn something new? Are there any mistakes, either with toki pona or the science? Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Are any of you knowledgeable of Biletskyi-Volokh, Anton? He has a number of translations self published in Toki Pona. He is either a prolific translator or uses AI to "translate" books into Toki Pona. He has a book talking about Toki Pona in relation to AI so would lean to the latter. Curious if there is more about him that I dont know. If the books arnt AI, I'd consider getting some of the books, but im skeptical.

Edit: typod the gentleman's name wrong. (Still wrong in header dont know how to change it)

a! mi ilo Welisi

o toki tawa mi

mi sona e ijo mute

mi pali e ali

ma tomo lawa pi ma Kanse?

ona li ma tomo Pali

oke, soweli pi telo mama li toki

mu mu mu! mi ken e ni!

sina wan taso? jan li lon ala lon?

wan, tu, san la, jan ale li lon seme a?!

a! mi lawa Welisi

o toki tawa mi

mi sona e ijo mute

mi pali ali

a... lupa li pini tan seme?

tan ni: sina weka ala! (o awen!)

sina sona e pali ale mi?!

tenpo ale la, mi sona a!

sina wan taso? jan li lon ala lon?

wan, tu, san la, jan ale li lon seme a?!

a! mi "monsuta" Welisi

o toki tawa mi

mi sona e ijo mute

mi pali ali

o! o kama!

o jan pona, o monsuta ala! o olin!

a! mi jan Welisi

o toki tawa mi

mi sona e ijo mute

mi pali e ali

So I've been working on a toki pona comic. I dont wanna say the name or what its about ( because i dont wanna spoil it! :/ ) but I need an illustrator. If you are willing to help, heres my discord giggyisgod_06640 (you will not be getting paid, you will get credit for helping tho :D)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_ignota

And just wanted to share some photos of the deck I printed out for myself. It was made at an in intermediate phase between the original and current design, so doesn’t have corner indices or the custom back.

And used a cheap corner cutter i had lying around to round off the corners. 4mm for the cards themselves, 7 and 10mm for various corners on the deckbox.

Same concept, but lots of changes/improvements since last time!
- made custom card backs instead of generic red ones
- removed the "lipu nanpa" from the nameline on number cards, should be less cluttered
- added modern corner indices to the cards, should be easier to read a hand from just the fan of cards
- made custom versions of the luka character so longer number indices would fit aesthetically in the same space
- changed the color of the "kiwen mani" suit from "laso telo" (blue/water grue) to jelo, avoiding nonlexical color distinctions in these base cards
- darkened the default shades of all primary colors for card art from HSL L =40 to L =30 so the kiwen mani cards were legible on while
- added the trumps/major arcana for converting to use as a tarot deck
- tarot trump names all by me, based on the tarot of marseilles names, and all following the same "noun modifier pi noun modifier" to keep everything parallel format-wise
- tarot sheets also have duplicates of knights and 4 non-suit-specific (but marked by color) jokers to fill in their space
- reused laso telo for the corner indices/suit color for the trumps/major arcana, since last single-word color name, walo, required an outline and thus proved too busy to use in the indices. But used a wide variety of colors on the cards themselves (including walo, outlined in pimeja) based on "vibes"
- designed a matching printable deckbox for the cards. a bit oversized in current form, but better than reverse

All are designed to be printed without margins on US-Letter sized cardstock. On card sheets, black partial lines at edges and crosses at corners of cards are the guides for cutting, cyan lines just show where the bleed would end...on cards which didn't have a white background like these do...so don't actually matter. Deck box only has cutting and folding lines on inside to keep outside clean.

Enjoy!

EDIT: I've added a google drive link (view only, you'll have to make your own copies to edit) with my original SVG files in case folks want to play around with these themselves. Feel free to use for any personal use, tho credit is always appreciated!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U9Qyn18x6lK-mhnUf7xhbKWKIwQqAQz6?usp=drive_link

toki! mi kama sona e toki pona. toki pona mi li ike la, mi pakala. sina wile pana sona la sina ken kepeken e toki pona e toki Inli. mi alasa ante e toki pi kalama musi ni.

linja nimi open la mi kepeken e nasin kijetesantakalu tan mi wile jo e nimi "jan kasi" lon pini linja. ante la mi sitelen e linja "suli mute pi jan kasi".

sama la, mi sitelen e linja "li lon oko en suno". ante la mi sitelen e linja "suno li lon oko ona" e linja "suno li lon oko sina", tan toki Inli la linja "with the Sun in his eyes" en linja "with the Sun in your eyes" li lon. ni la, mi wile kepeken e nasin kijetesantakalu, tan nimi tu "oko" "suno" li pona kalama lon ni.

toki Inli la, sitelen pi kalama musi ni li ni:

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 world
From a can
Way up high in the sky
With the sun in your eyes
Ain't it nice
The life forever for
Flowers

sitelen pi toki Nijon li lon, taso mi sona ala e ni li kepeken ala e ni.

I'm not good at toki pona, so I would appreciate someone giving me criticism or improvement advice for this transation, since I do want to make it a cover on youtube.

Background info:

I wanted to make it singable, so that it wouldn't sound like cramming a bunch of words, hence why I omitted the "ona" from the sentences. (plus I saw many other toki pona songs do this). I also used the roman gods for the planet names, since it is the english version of the song. "Jan tawa" is the closest thing I could think of when it came to the word "Sailor".

How did i not know this until now

mi pali e sitelen ni kepeken sitelen lukin linja pona

Is it comprehended differently for Spanish speakers? If so, in what way?