I tried to use Toki Pona and made this phrase:

mi lukin sona toki lon ni ike nasa toki taso ni li ala sama soweli toki

But I think it’s missing something, so I’m asking you guys to translate it so I can see if it’s understandable.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    It doesn’t make any sense to me.

    I vocally understandingly see here vocally strange badness, but this isn’t like animal talk.

    You seem to use adjectives in the wrong order. I can’t understand the first half but if the second half is supposed to be, “but this isn’t animal talk”, that should be “ni li ala toki soweli.”

    • Delika@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      Also, verbs follow in the predicate as modifiera too, so

      mi lukin sona toki lon ni ike nasa toki taso ni li ala sama soweli toki

      Can mean “I look for (seek) to know talk about this linguistic strange bad but this is zero equal talking mammal”

    • vimino@lemmy.mlOP
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      4 years ago

      I knew it. Anyway, this is what I tried to translate:

      i seek to know how to talk in that complex, unusual language that (is) not like Pig Latin

      I just took words from a guide and replaced them without paying attention to the structure.

      Thanks for confirming and translating. :)

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        4 years ago

        i seek to know how to talk in that complex, unusual language that (is) not like Pig Latin

        That’s a strange sounding sentence to me in english also. If you were trying to say: “I want to learn to speak a complex strange language, that isn’t pig latin.” It’d be something like:

        mi wile kama sona e toki nasa ike. toki ni li ala "pig latin.

        • Delika@lemmy.ml
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          3 years ago

          There is no letter “g” in toki pona and “pig” does not follow the toki pona syllabary. Also, never put “ala” in the beginning of a predicate if you don’t want to mean “zero”, “ala” is usually a modifier that shows negative or opposite, so it must go after what it modifies. Separators never are modified, they just show a sentence’s part of speech.