Mastodawn

... i xim pum, es va sublimar en el camp perceptiu... #slowàlien #bicicleta #tokipona #puntcec 👽 https://vialactios.jimdofree.com

extenebris 17h ago

.a'u .aicu'i la'acu'i mi tadni ko'a goi lo tokpono bangu
.i ju'a mi sanji lo sidbo be fi ko'a
.ije ku'i go'i po'o .u'i
.i ku'i ko'a frica la .lojban. lo ka ka'e ba'o te cilre .i .u'i 😁
.i .u'e ma cu se simsa lo nu tavla be fo ko'a?

#lojban #tokipona

extenebris 18h ago

Hm, maybe I should give tokipona a try? I mean, I know the concept of it but that's pretty much all I know about it. Unlike lojban though, it seems actually learnable in a sane amount of time 😁 What's it like speaking in it I wonder

#tokipona #conlang #languagelearning

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Klay 22h ago

something I've proposed a couple of times is "wow, names sure do take up a lot of space in a fixed-width environment", like for ⛄🖌⬇️🐚🍎🐚🖌 jan Niki, the 🖌 indicators take up a whopping 28% of the sentence, and you don't even pronounce them!

my instinct for this is generally to do the javascript "automatic semicolon insertion" thing where if a name is written "incorrectly" you can infer the missing letters. so this:

⛄🖌⬇️🍎🖌

is also pronounced "jan Niki" because "jan Nk" is "clearly incorrect"

...but then I was informed that some people have names like "ijo Stella" which are phonotactically invalid on purpose, and this would be written like 🐚🖌⚖💧🛒☘⚓🖌, which my rule would pronounce as "ijo Satela" which is close but clearly not what's intended.

maybe that's close enough? maybe I just live with the ambiguity in the name of being able to shorten names in fixed-width?

my other idea is to add a punctuation mark in front of an abbreviated name. so like ⛄🖌⏹⬇️🍎🖌. the more abbreviated a name is, the more mileage you get out of using one extra character to mark the abbreviation, right?

I suppose for sitelen jelo specifically, I could combine the 🖌punctuation with the ⏹ punctuation. something like ⛄🖍⬇️🍎🖍.

#tokipona #toki_pona #sitelen_jelo