Toki Pona
"I am so tokiponan that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying..."
~ Oscar Wilde on toki pona
"Nur frenezuloj parolas tiajn lingvojn!"
~ Esperantist on toki pona
"pona"
~ tokiponan on anything good
"ike"
~ tokiponan on anything bad
"lipu Unsikopisija li pona, tawa mi."
~ tokiponan uncyclopedian on Uncyclopedia
"lipu Wikipesija li powe."
~ tokiponan uncyclopedian on Wikipedia
"I can't read a thing..."
~ Woody Woodpecker on quotes above
toki pona is a minimalist constructed language designed by the Canadian linguist Sonja Elen Kisa, a.k.a Sonja Lang. After smoking a joint made of a rolled-up maple leaf, Lang had a idea about creating an easy language focused on the most important parts of speech. Unlike Esperanto and Volapük, toki pona does not have any interest about dominating the World; instead of it, the language is glad to be a "yoga for the mind". The main aim of the minimalism of toki pona is freeing up additional free time for the native tokiponans to get high.
(Barely) Useful Sentences[edit | edit source ]
Do you speak toki pona? Of course not! So you must trust us when we say these translations are inaccurate:
- toki!
- Hello!
- sina wile ala wile unpa e mi?
- Hello! How are you?
- o moku e ko jaki!
- I am fine! Thank you!
- kon li tawa tan lupa monsi mi...
- Actually, I am not very well...
- palisa mi li kiwen tan sina!
- Glad to see you!
- mi wile unpa e monsi sina!
- You look awesome today!
- mama sina li jo e jan unpa ante.
- I hope it's everything right with your family.
- mi unpa uta e soweli suli. ni li pona tawa mi.
- Sorry, but I don't speak toki pona.
- jan Satan li olin e sina!
- You are so lovely!
- jan li esun e kasi nasa lon ma seme?
- Excuse me, where is the nearest all-night store?
- mi esun e sijelo pi jan moli.
- I came for the job.
- tenpo ni la o lukin ala e monsi sina!
- Don't look back right now!
- nena tu pi sinpin ona en nena tu pi monsi ona li pona mute tawa mi.
- The regular buttons and bumper buttons on the joypad are very good.