Summer ’22, Day 41

mi alasa e kulupu.
kulupu mi li lon seme?
ona li lon ala lon?
mi lon ala lon?
mi kon taso.

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Toki Pona, #3

I’m reading Pepper & Carrot in toki pona! This post is a bunch of my random thoughts. I’m at about 10% comprehension, but I understood this line perfectly: “mun li pana e nasin.” (source) It felt different to understand directly in toki pona without needing English. The words take on their own meaning and the…

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Unplugged Keyboard, Part 3

I may be misrepresenting what I type on the unplugged keyboard as always being funny. A lot of it is stuff I need to say, but to no one in particular, and things I can’t say in English (not literally, mentally)…

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Toki Pona in Minecraft

Earlier I was bored and aimlessly scrolling through settings in Minecraft. I clicked on languages and, feeling a whim from the option for Shakespearean English, I scrolled down and there was Toki Pona! I never expected to find Toki Pona in Minecraft, but there it was. I enabled it and was immediately disoriented by not…

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Toki Pona, #2

toki! It’s been a while since the last update. I’m still learning Toki Pona, it’s just taken a backseat to my other projects. I’ve memorized nearly all the words and now I’m focusing on getting lots of input. Maybe at some point I’ll write posts in Toki Pona. mi tawa!

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Toki Pona, #1

I started learning Toki Pona about three weeks ago and I’ve memorized almost all 137 core words. It’s definitely possible to memorize them faster, I’ve just been working on Toki Pona along with my other projects. Some background about the language: Toki Pona is a constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001 with a…

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Upcoming Projects (what’s next)

I’ve recently done several long-running series (Learning C, 30 Days of Watercolor, PICO-8 Text Editor) and I think it would be fun to do a variety of things next. Things on the menu so far: POV-Ray, Toki Pona, and Beowulf.POV-Ray is a 3D rendering program I found yesterday, Toki Pona is a constructed language I…

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