Tamzin Hadasa Kelly

There are 29,768 pairings of the 122 widely-accepted #tokipona content words. Some can mean many things (e.g. "tomo tawa", room of movement), some will usually only mean a few closely related things (e.g. "pimeja walo", black of white), and many would only be parseable in a very specific context (e.g. "pipi esun", insect of trade)

So it's very exciting when something jumps from the 3rd category to the 2nd! And I think https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01838-6 may do that for "suwi mun", sweetness of space-object

Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu - Nature Geoscience

Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according to a geochemical study.

Nature
Dec 4 at 6:38pmWeb
Show threadTamzin Hadasa KellyDec 4
(I've edited this like 6 times over self-nerd-sniping on how many content words there are. Let's see... 118 core words + 13 common words per https://linku.la/?q=&categories=%7B%22core%22%3Atrue%2C%22common%22%3Atrue%2C%22uncommon%22%3Afalse%2C%22obscure%22%3Afalse%7D. But "a", "e", "en", "la", "li", "n", "o", and "pi" can never be content words in standard usage; some might disagree on whether "kin" can be a noun, but I think it mostly behaves like one. So that leaves 123, right? And then double the square of that for permutations.)
lipu Linku

An interactive dictionary for Toki Pona

Show threadTamzin Hadasa KellyDec 4
Oh shit no there's also "anu". Occasionally used as a noun to mean "option", but unlike "kin"-as-noun I'd say that's pretty nonstandard.
Show threadtbodtDec 4
@tamzin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q197969
mooncake

Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival

Show threadTamzin Hadasa KellyDec 4
@tbodt tawa mi la ni li suwi "mun" :P mi wile toki pona e nasin ona, la mi o toki "suwi pi kama kulupu kasi" anu "pan sike pi insa suwi".