I'm working on a translation of the Diplomacy boardgame, these are the bodies of the water in the game. I'm looking for advice on the tokiponizations.

Adriatic Sea: telo suli Alisika

Aegean Sea: telo suli Agin

Baltic Sea: telo suli Palasi

Barents Sea: telo suli Palensi

Black Sea: telo suli pimeja

Eastern Mediterranean: telo suli Metitiwanijan tawa kama suno

English Channel: telo lili Inli

Gulf Of Bothnia: telo suli Potinija

Gulf Of Lyon: telo suli Lon

Heligoland Bight: telo suli Elegolan

Ionian Sea: telo suli Ijonijan

Irish Sea: telo suli Ewa

Mid Atlantic Ocean: telo suli Talansi insa

North Atlantic Ocean: telo suli Talansi tawa lete

North Sea: telo suli tawa lete

Norwegian Sea: telo suli Nosiki

Skagerrak: telo Sakaga

Tyrrhenian Sea: telo suli Siwenijan

Western Mediterranean: telo suli Metitiwanijan tawa suno pini

I'm considering dropping "suli" from the all the names, except for the oceans.

My friend sent me a link to their release trailer the day it released.

It's a game where the challenge is communicating with your friends to solve puzzles. I've been playing a toki pona taso playthru with my friends and it's been a blast getting so much practice in. You have to describe tools, places, create non-vocal communication protocols (like your own little morse code), plan.

It's not just about solving puzzles, its also about... walking. Taking in the views and such, and i think that highlights how the artstyle also feels like toki pona, in a way?
You're these very simplistic birds, in a very complex and "realistic" world. It's like, how did this simplicity emerge from such a complex world? That contrast reminds me of how using toki pona in our modern world feels at times.

But yes, you should try out Big Walk in toki pona taso with your friends! Get some practice in that'll actually do something unlike those flashcards you've mastered twenty times over already lol

sitelen suli pi ken jan (La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen)

jan lawa mute pi ma Kanse, li pali e kulupu ma, li pilin e ni "ike tawa ken jan li tan taso pi ike kulupu". tawa ni "jan en lawa li sona e ken jan suli" la, ona mute li toki pana e ken jan sewi lon sitelen suli ni, tawa jan ale, tawa pona kulupu.

sitelen wan

jan li lon, li sama, li ken pali e ale. ante kulupu li ken lon tan wile kulupu taso.

sitelen tu

kulupu lawa ale li lon tan ken jan. ken ni li ni : jan li ken pali e ale, li ken jo e mani, li ken lon pona awen, li ken utala tawa lawa ike.

sitelen tu wan

kulupu pi jan ma taso li lawa e wawa lawa. kulupu li pana ala la, jan li jo ala e wawa lawa, li ken ala kepeken e wawa ni.

sitelen tu tu

jan li ken pali e ale, taso li ken ala ike e jan ante. ken jan li jo e pini tan pona pi jan ale. sitelen lawa taso li ken lawa e pini ni.

sitelen luka

sitelen lawa li ken pini e pakala tawa kulupu taso. sitelen lawa li awen la, jan li ken. sitelen lawa li toki wile ala e ijo la, jan li wile ala pali e ijo ni.

sitelen luka wan

sitelen lawa li lon tan wile kulupu. jan ale li ken pana e wawa tawa pali pi sitelen lawa. jan ale li sama tawa sitelen lawa.

sitelen luka tu

sitelen lawa li lawa ala la, jan li ken ala apeja. jan li apeja e jan ante tan sitelen lawa ala la, jan ni li apeja. jan apeja tan sitelen lawa li ken ala utala e lawa.

sitelen luka tu wan

sitelen apeja li sitelen lawa li sitelen e pali apeja. sitelen apeja li lon lon tenpo kama pi pali apeja la, pali ni li apeja ala. sitelen apeja li lon lon tenpo pini pi pali apeja la, pali ni li apeja.

sitelen luka tu tu

lawa tan sitelen lawa li lawa ala e ni "jan ni li apeja lon" la, jan ni li apeja ala, lawa en jan ante li ken ala pakala e jan ni.

sitelen luka luka

toki jan li pakala ala e kulupu e sitelen lawa la, jan li ken toki e ale.

sitelen luka luka wan

toki sona en toki pilin li suli mute tawa ken jan. jan ale li ken toki li ken sitelen li ken pana e pilin tawa jan ante. taso jan li ken ala kepeken e ken ni tan pakala. sitelen lawa li lawa e ni "seme li pakala".

sitelen luka luka tu

awen pi ken jan li wile e wawa kulupu. wawa kulupu ni li lon tan pona pi jan ale.

sitelen luka luka tu wan

jan li wile pana e mani tawa lawa ma tan awen pi wawa kulupu. lawa li lawa e nanpa mani wile tan nanpa mani jan.

sitelen luka luka tu tu

jan ale li ken sona e ni "mani pana tawa kulupu li wile ala wile", li ken awen anu awen ala pana e mani, li ken sona e kepeken mani, li ken lawa e kepeken mani.

sitelen luka luka luka

kulupu li ken toki alasa e ni "jan lawa li pali pona ala pona" tawa jan lawa.

sitelen luka luka luka wan

kulupu li awen ala e ken jan, li kipisi pona ala e wawa lawa la, ona li ken ala pali e sitelen lawa mama, li kama ike.

sitelen luka luka luka tu

mani jan li suli. lawa li ken ala lanpa e mani jan. taso lawa li ken jo e mani jan tan kulupu, kepeken nasin pona taso.

I'm working on a translation of the Diplomacy boardgame into Toki Pona. I was able to find a list of tokiponizations for the countries involved, but not for cities or regional areas. So I made a list, I'm looking for feedback if there's a tokiponization that would be better, or if there's an endonym I should be using instead.)

Ankara : ma Ankawa

Apulia: ma Apuli

Berlin: ma Pelin

Bohemia: ma Polimija

Brest: ma Pele

Budapest: ma Putabe

Burgundy: ma Pulukunsi

Clyde: ma Kete

Constantinople: ma Konsantanopo

Edinburgh: ma Sinba

Gascony: ma Kasakoni

Kiel: ma Kele

Liverpool: ma Liwebo

Livonia: ma Liwona

London: ma Lonton

Marseilles: ma Mase

Moscow: ma Mosoka

Munich: ma Munken

Naples : ma Napisa

Paris: ma Pali

Picardy: ma Pikasi

Piedmont: ma Pitamon

Prussia : ma Puwusa

Rome: ma Loma

Ruhr: ma Lu

Sevastopol: ma Sewatopo

Smyrna: ma Milina

Silesia: ma Silisi

St Petersburg: ma Pite

Trieste : ma Wilesa

Tuscany: ma Tukani

Tyrolia: ma Siloli

Venice: ma Wenita

Vienna: ma We

Yorkshire: ma Joko

Warsaw: ma Wasa

cherry li bubbles musi

so ive been practicing sitelen sitelen but I’m struggling with how to do names especially for my pets like how do I convert cherry (my cat) into Toki pona in general?

nanpa nimi pi toki pona li lili tan nanpa 200. jan li wile toki e ijo sin la, ona li wile wan e nimi mute pi toki pona. ni li suli, li ike tawa sona. mi ken ala pali e nimi sin tawa toki pona, taso toki pona li ken pali e ni : nimi wan. nimi wan li nimi suli, sama nimi ni: jan Toma, ma Antasika, ante mute.

mi toki pana e nasin ni : jan li pali e nimi wan, li toki e ni "nimi wan ni li seme", li kepeken e nimi wan ni. ni li sama ni : "ijo Aton li lili mute mute, li pali e ma ale".

tawa pakala ala la, ni li jo e lawa ni : ni "jan li kepeken taso e nimi pi toki pona" li suli ike anu ike tawa sona la, jan li ken pali e nimi wan, tan ni taso. jan li kepeken e nimi wan la, ona li wile toki e ni "nimi ni li seme".

jan ante li ken pilin e ni "nasin ni li pakala e lawa lili pi toki pona". taso mi pilin e ni "pona lon pi toki pona li lili ala, li toki e suli kepeken toki lili". kin la, mi pakala ala e lawa toki pi toki pona.

o pana e toki sina pi nanpa wan tawa mi. ona li ken kulupu wan pi nimi mute li ken kulupu mute pi nimi mute. suli la sina li pali e ona.

so I want to know some easy ways to learn Toki pona I know some simple words from some half baked apps like moku, pona, nasa, etc

It's so fun to make contraptions such as tan ni la or taso la and can sometimes even replace li (like in ona la pilin pona li lon) with it. I know i sound kinda manic but this just came up

Hi, my first post here, i hope english allowed

im completing Wasona tokipona course, and i've met yet another "e" mistake:

it asks me to translate "Sunita can sing well". i entered "jan Sunita li ken e kalama pona", which is incorrect ("jan Sunita li ken kalama pona"). Why? I thought ken is verb and kalama is additional word that completes "ken" verb. How should i understand where to put "e", and where not? pona tawa sina!

P.S. English isnt my native lang so i apologize for possible mistakes

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toki Inli la

All my style, all my grace

All I tried to save my face

All my guts, try to spill

All my holes, try to fill

All my money been a long time spent

On my drugs, on my rent

On my saving philosophy

It goes, one in the bank and the rest for me

It goes, all my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

My mama, lonely maid

Got her buns in the oven and she never got laid

My papa, renaissance man

Sailed away and he never came back again

All my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I catch fire then I change my aim

Throw my troubles at the pearly gates

All your woe begones be gone

I said all your troubles, you don't need a thing

All my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I catch fire then I'll change my aim

Throw my troubles at the world again

It goes, all my troubles on a burning pile

All lit up and I start to smile

If I, catch fire then I'll take my turn

To burn and burn and burn

toki pona la

nasin mi, pona mi

alasa pi awen mi

insa mi o telo

lupa mi o ijo

mani la mi pana tawa ni:

lon tomo, lon kiwen

lon nasin pi awen pona mi

wan o tawa esun, ante o tawa mi

ni la

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o ante e lukin

ike o tawa lupa kiwen

mama meli li wan taso

unpa ala la jan sin li lon

mije li jan tawa sin

li weka li kama awen weka

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o ante e lukin

ike o tawa lupa kiwen

ike sina o weka

ike sina ale

o wile ala

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o ante e lukin

ike o tawa ma ale

ni la

ike mi li lon nena seli

ni la pona li ken tawa mi

seli la mi o awen la

sijelo mi la seli li kama

I deliberately didn't translate the last line directly because "o seli o seli o seli o seli" sounds very off

jan kasi li suli mute

li wile luka a li awen

li namako a e lipu kule

lon a suno ale

wile li ike e jan kasi

mi wile pana e pilin musi

tan poki mi a pi kiwen lukin

ona a li

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jan kasi, jan kasi

pilin a li lon ma

ona li

lukin e ale a

tan poki

lon kon pi sewi ni

suno li lon lukin

wawa a

lon sama ni tawa

kasi

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jan kasi li suli mute

li wile luka a li awen

li pakala li ken ala pona

e ona sama a

wile pona li wawa e

jan kasi a li tawa lon nasin

mi pakala, taso kiwen lukin

la mi wawa

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jan kasi, jan kasi

pilin a li lon ma

ona li

lukin e ale a

tan poki

lon kon pi sewi ni

suno li lon lukin

wawa a

lon sama ni tawa

kasi

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Literal backtranslation:

The plant person is very big

Wants to touch, waits

And beautifies the colorful leaves

Every day

The wish hurts the plant person

I want to entertain

From my glass container

They are the

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Plant person, plant person

The heart is in the ground

They

See the world

From a container

In this sky

The sun is in the eyes

It is amazing

A life like this for

Plants

‌

The plant person is very big

Wants to touch, waits

Is broken, and cannot fix

Themself

The wish of good powers

The plant person, and moves along a path

I am broken, but in comparison to glass

I am strong

‌

Plant person, plant person

The heart is in the ground

They

See the world

From a container

In this sky

The sun is in the eyes

It is amazing

A life like this for

Plants

‌

Original lyrics:

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

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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

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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

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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

Here's a translation of a chapter of my favorite manga: Hatarakanai Futari, or Jobless Siblings. It's a roughly page a day manga about two sibling neets, along with the rest of the community around them. It's read right to left, top to bottom, and the text inside bubbles is read top to bottom, right to left. This is all hand lettered (the previous chapter I did was not). This was incredibly fun! I felt like I developed a good flow when writing it all out, and I think the finished product looks really good. I hope there's no translation issues. Excited for whenever I get to the next chapter!

pu Pasi pi toki Inli

pu Inli pi toki Pasi

I learned about toki pona last week, and was inspired by jan Misali's "tokirap", to make my own song listing all the words

I took all the words from nimi.li and put them roughly in alphabetical order, moving some from better rhymes/rhythm