recently i've been making a small fictional world (don't plan on releasing it) where a good half of the world ended up speaking toki pona. i was wondering if there's any good examples of world building with toki pona anywhere out there. preferably with some material actually in toki pona, but i'd appreciate material written in english too.
i know you are supposed to just do a scribble. but when i journal i usually use something permanent (like a marker or a pen) and i also sometimes write the wrong thing. i cover up the mistakes i make by just scribbling over them until i can't see them, but now i'm worried i'll forget the context behind what i wrote and think i wrote jaki, or not recognize that the scribble is actually jaki. are there any versions of it that are fixed or clear looking?
edit: i was thinking about using the nimisin "jami" glyph but turning the smile upside down as a way to draw jaki. (specifically in my journal, not an actual suggestion for changing the glyph.)
tenpo kama
tenpo tawa
kama lili
tawa wawa
lili mute
kama suli
ni ale la,
sina lon
mi pilin ni: mi jan nasa. taso, mi sona ala e kon tan jan nasa. sina ken ala ken pana pi sona ni tawa mi?
(what does the jan nasa flair mean)
mi wile kama sona e toki pona. toki li pona tawa kama sona. sina toki pi toki pona tawa mi la, mi alasa toki pi toki pona taso tawa sina. mi pakala la, sina ken pona e toki mi.
ante: tenpo pini la, mi toki ala tan ni: mi lape. pakala mi! tenpo ni la, mi toki.
ojijo ma Owajo (ohio)
ma Minesota (minesota)misoli ma Misuwi (missouri)jo sin ma Nujo (new york, im not so confident about this one. could maybe say joke sin, ne jo, or ne joke)wemonte ma Wemon (vermont)kaliwonija ma Kaliponija (california)
ma Misikan (michigan)wisikonsijan ma Wikonsin (wisconsion)
might do more later, are these correct/good enough? i'm not properly refreshed on the rules for tokiponization, i did this a bit spontaneously.
edit: these are wrong, fixed mistakes. thanks for corrections this was my first time tokiponizing things
is there a website or anything i could put a toki pona sentence into to check if its grammatically correct? with maybe a very literal and direct translation to make sure it actually means what i think it means, but i more just want a grammar checker. i journal a lot to practice, but not everything i want to share to another person for them to manually confirm it's meaning and grammar.
do yall know any channels that make videos exclusivly in toki pona? i want to get more listening exposure, but i don't know where to find content.
mi sitelen ni tan ni: mi wile sona e sona mi. sina ken pona e pakala mi. tenpo suli la, mi pali sona e toki pona. mi wile sona suli e toki pona. tenpo ni la, mi sona lili e toki pona. mi wile toki mute lon ni. mi sona ala e mi o toki.
ni li insa e toki inli:
>!"my speech is good or not?"!<
>!"i write this cause of this: i want to know my knowledge. you can correct my mistakes. for a while, i study toki pona. i want big knowledge of toki pona. currently, i know little toki pona. i want to talk more (a lot) here. i do not know what i should say."!<
>!"this in english language:"!<
(this is kinda just word vomit because i was trying to think of good example sentences. i will try to respond to comments in toki pona to give more examples of my speech. i read toki pona much better than i speak it, so you can respond to me in toki pona.)
i remember there was an bonobo named kanzi who was taught a lexigram system for english words. i feel like toki pona would be really interesting to see in a similar study. it is vague and could really show abstract reasoning skills, it could show ability to interpret context, it could show understanding of word order, and it could show ability to interpret grammar. and, toki pona already has a logographic writing system (sitelen pona), which would likely make it easier to teach. toki pona has less words than yerkish, what they taught kanzi (120ish vs 384). if they could put yerkish on a keyboard they could put sitelen pona on a keyboard.
i want some headphones (closed back) with the absolute best quality audio. i will not sacrifice for quality, unless it is over $1000 in that case i will sacrifice a bit of quality. i have a lot of flac audio files and i want to actually get use out of them (which i am not with my soundcore space ones bluetooth connection i'm sorry.) also for the location requirement, i am in the midwest. i will just order these online though. i know bluetooth degrades audio quality so i will be plugging it in. flatter base eq preferred because i am gonna mess around with eqs. okay thanks
I want to make my own script for my journal, after a few days/weeks of messing with one I can write it about as easily as Latin. My problem though is that I struggle to read it. I can translate Latin letters to my own script easily but the other way around is much slower. I think this is from not training my brain to associate the words in my script with the actual counterparts, and I don't really know how to train my brain in that way. Has anyone struggled with this or got over it?