in order to play the spanish flea

jan Usawi Aug 5, 2023

{"/":{"prev":{"id":"2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san","data":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"carry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \\\nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \\\nmi li soaring ever higher \\\n(that's not how li works) \\\ntaso flew too high\n\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \\\nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \\\n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that's kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \\\nI hear the voices when I'm teaching \\\nI can hear them say\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \\\nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \\\nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \\\n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en 'cause that's also not how en works) \\\nWell, it surely means I didn't read \\\n(also that sounds mean out of context)\n\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \\\n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \\\nTossed about here is the way that I'm feeling \\\n(that's not wrong, but that's just a cheap rhyme) \\\nI set a course for winds pi fortune \\\n(ok you're doing this on purpose) \\\nBut I hear the voices say \\\n(this… this is gonna take a while)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? *pi* doesn't mean *of*. It doesn't! You can't put just one word behind it. *pi* introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can't cross parts of speech either, you can't put *e* inside of *pi*! But listen, if you didn't modify the head of a *pi* phrase, so you said like *ijo pi ijo*, it would literally be the same as if you didn't use *pi*, except that would be correct, as in *ijo ijo*! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: *Toki Pona: The Language of Good*, where the definition of *pi* is listed as \"of\", and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the *other* place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use *pi* incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. People reference *ilo pi nanpa* all the time, and newbies hear that among other things and go \"Oh okay, *pi* with one word! Got it.\" But grammatically *pi* doesn't mean of—or else you kinda say that every modifier works like of? And sure, you can do that. But like, okay, that's just silly.)\n\nsina jo e sitelen tenpo \\\n(Maybe don't use *jo* there? *jo* is commonly used for things that you hold or own, or things that are a part of you, not as broad as English \"have\") \\\nsina o kama suli tan selo \\\nma sewi li wile e sina \\\nona li o awen \\\n(Ahhh okay, we're being self aware about it)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\no mu! \\","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san.md","digest":"bf9cc8ae358bf5f3","rendered":{"html":"carry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \nmi li soaring ever higher \n(that’s not how li works) \ntaso flew too high\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that’s kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \nI hear the voices when I’m teaching \nI can hear them say\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en ‘cause that’s also not how en works) \nWell, it surely means I didn’t read \n(also that sounds mean out of context)\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \nTossed about here is the way that I’m feeling \n(that’s not wrong, but that’s just a cheap rhyme) \nI set a course for winds pi fortune \n(ok you’re doing this on purpose) \nBut I hear the voices say \n(this… this is gonna take a while)\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? pi doesn’t mean of. It doesn’t! You can’t put just one word behind it. pi introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can’t cross parts of speech either, you can’t put e inside of pi! But listen, if you didn’t modify the head of a pi phrase, so you said like ijo pi ijo, it would literally be the same as if you didn’t use pi, except that would be correct, as in ijo ijo! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: Toki Pona: The Language of Good, where the definition of pi is listed as “of”, and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the other place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use pi incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. People reference ilo pi nanpa all the time, and newbies hear that among other things and go “Oh okay, pi with one word! Got it.” But grammatically pi doesn’t mean of—or else you kinda say that every modifier works like of? And sure, you can do that. But like, okay, that’s just silly.)\nsina jo e sitelen tenpo \n(Maybe don’t use jo there? jo is commonly used for things that you hold or own, or things that are a part of you, not as broad as English “have”) \nsina o kama suli tan selo \nma sewi li wile e sina \nona li o awen \n(Ahhh okay, we’re being self aware about it)\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\no mu! \\","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":null,"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"blog"},"next":{"id":"2023/08/jan-pi-sona-weka","data":{"title":"jan pi sona weka","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"tenpo la mi pilin ike tan tawa sina \\\npoka mi la sina pilin pona pi mute ike \\\nmi en sina li kipisi musi \\\nala, taso la mi kipisi \\\nlon pakala pi olin sina la mi awen \n\njan li ken sike alasa e apeja ni \\\nli pini utala e pini lon tenpo ale \\\nolin ni li nasa mute la \\\nsina toki e ni: mi awen jan pona \\\nmi pilin pona tan ni: olin ni li weka\n\nmi wile ala e olin sina \\\ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \\\nla tan sina li seme a? \\\nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \\\nwa, sina jo e len namako \\\ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \\\nmi wile sona, taso \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n\ntenpo la mi kama lukin e pakala sina \\\nsina toki e ni: ijo ale li pakala mi \\\ntaso nasin mi li ante \\\nken la mi wile ala kute \\\nsina la mi o sama kon \\\no alasa ala kama jo e mi \\\njan olin weka o \n\nmi wile ala e olin sina \\\ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \\\nla tan sina li seme a? \\\nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \\\nwa, sina jo e len namako \\\ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \\\nmi wile sona, taso \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n\n(jan weka) \\\n(jan weka) \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/jan-pi-sona-weka.md","digest":"f6670d4cf49b091e","rendered":{"html":"tenpo la mi pilin ike tan tawa sina \npoka mi la sina pilin pona pi mute ike \nmi en sina li kipisi musi \nala, taso la mi kipisi \nlon pakala pi olin sina la mi awen\njan li ken sike alasa e apeja ni \nli pini utala e pini lon tenpo ale \nolin ni li nasa mute la \nsina toki e ni: mi awen jan pona \nmi pilin pona tan ni: olin ni li weka\nmi wile ala e olin sina \ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \nla tan sina li seme a? \nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \nwa, sina jo e len namako \ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \nmi wile sona, taso \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\ntenpo la mi kama lukin e pakala sina \nsina toki e ni: ijo ale li pakala mi \ntaso nasin mi li ante \nken la mi wile ala kute \nsina la mi o sama kon \no alasa ala kama jo e mi \njan olin weka o\nmi wile ala e olin sina \ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \nla tan sina li seme a? \nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \nwa, sina jo e len namako \ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \nmi wile sona, taso \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n(jan weka) \n(jan weka) \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"jan pi sona weka","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":null,"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"blog"}},"t/music":{"prev":{"id":"2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san","data":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"carry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \\\nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \\\nmi li soaring ever higher \\\n(that's not how li works) \\\ntaso flew too high\n\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \\\nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \\\n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that's kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \\\nI hear the voices when I'm teaching \\\nI can hear them say\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \\\nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \\\nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \\\n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en 'cause that's also not how en works) \\\nWell, it surely means I didn't read \\\n(also that sounds mean out of context)\n\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \\\n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \\\nTossed about here is the way that I'm feeling \\\n(that's not wrong, but that's just a cheap rhyme) \\\nI set a course for winds pi fortune \\\n(ok you're doing this on purpose) \\\nBut I hear the voices say \\\n(this… this is gonna take a while)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? *pi* doesn't mean *of*. It doesn't! You can't put just one word behind it. *pi* introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can't cross parts of speech either, you can't put *e* inside of *pi*! But listen, if you didn't modify the head of a *pi* phrase, so you said like *ijo pi ijo*, it would literally be the same as if you didn't use *pi*, except that would be correct, as in *ijo ijo*! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: *Toki Pona: The Language of Good*, where the definition of *pi* is listed as \"of\", and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the *other* place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use *pi* incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. People reference *ilo pi nanpa* all the time, and newbies hear that among other things and go \"Oh okay, *pi* with one word! Got it.\" But grammatically *pi* doesn't mean of—or else you kinda say that every modifier works like of? And sure, you can do that. But like, okay, that's just silly.)\n\nsina jo e sitelen tenpo \\\n(Maybe don't use *jo* there? *jo* is commonly used for things that you hold or own, or things that are a part of you, not as broad as English \"have\") \\\nsina o kama suli tan selo \\\nma sewi li wile e sina \\\nona li o awen \\\n(Ahhh okay, we're being self aware about it)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\no mu! \\","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san.md","digest":"bf9cc8ae358bf5f3","rendered":{"html":"carry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \nmi li soaring ever higher \n(that’s not how li works) \ntaso flew too high\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that’s kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \nI hear the voices when I’m teaching \nI can hear them say\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en ‘cause that’s also not how en works) \nWell, it surely means I didn’t read \n(also that sounds mean out of context)\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \nTossed about here is the way that I’m feeling \n(that’s not wrong, but that’s just a cheap rhyme) \nI set a course for winds pi fortune \n(ok you’re doing this on purpose) \nBut I hear the voices say \n(this… this is gonna take a while)\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? pi doesn’t mean of. It doesn’t! You can’t put just one word behind it. pi introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can’t cross parts of speech either, you can’t put e inside of pi! But listen, if you didn’t modify the head of a pi phrase, so you said like ijo pi ijo, it would literally be the same as if you didn’t use pi, except that would be correct, as in ijo ijo! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: Toki Pona: The Language of Good, where the definition of pi is listed as “of”, and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the other place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use pi incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. People reference ilo pi nanpa all the time, and newbies hear that among other things and go “Oh okay, pi with one word! Got it.” But grammatically pi doesn’t mean of—or else you kinda say that every modifier works like of? And sure, you can do that. But like, okay, that’s just silly.)\nsina jo e sitelen tenpo \n(Maybe don’t use jo there? jo is commonly used for things that you hold or own, or things that are a part of you, not as broad as English “have”) \nsina o kama suli tan selo \nma sewi li wile e sina \nona li o awen \n(Ahhh okay, we’re being self aware about it)\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\no mu! \\","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":null,"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"blog"},"next":{"id":"2023/08/jan-pi-sona-weka","data":{"title":"jan pi sona weka","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"tenpo la mi pilin ike tan tawa sina \\\npoka mi la sina pilin pona pi mute ike \\\nmi en sina li kipisi musi \\\nala, taso la mi kipisi \\\nlon pakala pi olin sina la mi awen \n\njan li ken sike alasa e apeja ni \\\nli pini utala e pini lon tenpo ale \\\nolin ni li nasa mute la \\\nsina toki e ni: mi awen jan pona \\\nmi pilin pona tan ni: olin ni li weka\n\nmi wile ala e olin sina \\\ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \\\nla tan sina li seme a? \\\nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \\\nwa, sina jo e len namako \\\ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \\\nmi wile sona, taso \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n\ntenpo la mi kama lukin e pakala sina \\\nsina toki e ni: ijo ale li pakala mi \\\ntaso nasin mi li ante \\\nken la mi wile ala kute \\\nsina la mi o sama kon \\\no alasa ala kama jo e mi \\\njan olin weka o \n\nmi wile ala e olin sina \\\ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \\\nla tan sina li seme a? \\\nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \\\nwa, sina jo e len namako \\\ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \\\nmi wile sona, taso \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n\n(jan weka) \\\n(jan weka) \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/jan-pi-sona-weka.md","digest":"f6670d4cf49b091e","rendered":{"html":"tenpo la mi pilin ike tan tawa sina \npoka mi la sina pilin pona pi mute ike \nmi en sina li kipisi musi \nala, taso la mi kipisi \nlon pakala pi olin sina la mi awen\njan li ken sike alasa e apeja ni \nli pini utala e pini lon tenpo ale \nolin ni li nasa mute la \nsina toki e ni: mi awen jan pona \nmi pilin pona tan ni: olin ni li weka\nmi wile ala e olin sina \ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \nla tan sina li seme a? \nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \nwa, sina jo e len namako \ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \nmi wile sona, taso \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\ntenpo la mi kama lukin e pakala sina \nsina toki e ni: ijo ale li pakala mi \ntaso nasin mi li ante \nken la mi wile ala kute \nsina la mi o sama kon \no alasa ala kama jo e mi \njan olin weka o\nmi wile ala e olin sina \ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \nla tan sina li seme a? \nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \nwa, sina jo e len namako \ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \nmi wile sona, taso \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n(jan weka) \n(jan weka) \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"jan pi sona weka","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":null,"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"blog"}},"t/pop":{"prev":{"id":"2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san","data":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"carry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \\\nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \\\nmi li soaring ever higher \\\n(that's not how li works) \\\ntaso flew too high\n\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \\\nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \\\n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that's kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \\\nI hear the voices when I'm teaching \\\nI can hear them say\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \\\nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \\\nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \\\n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en 'cause that's also not how en works) \\\nWell, it surely means I didn't read \\\n(also that sounds mean out of context)\n\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \\\n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \\\nTossed about here is the way that I'm feeling \\\n(that's not wrong, but that's just a cheap rhyme) \\\nI set a course for winds pi fortune \\\n(ok you're doing this on purpose) \\\nBut I hear the voices say \\\n(this… this is gonna take a while)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? *pi* doesn't mean *of*. It doesn't! You can't put just one word behind it. *pi* introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can't cross parts of speech either, you can't put *e* inside of *pi*! But listen, if you didn't modify the head of a *pi* phrase, so you said like *ijo pi ijo*, it would literally be the same as if you didn't use *pi*, except that would be correct, as in *ijo ijo*! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: *Toki Pona: The Language of Good*, where the definition of *pi* is listed as \"of\", and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the *other* place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use *pi* incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. People reference *ilo pi nanpa* all the time, and newbies hear that among other things and go \"Oh okay, *pi* with one word! Got it.\" But grammatically *pi* doesn't mean of—or else you kinda say that every modifier works like of? And sure, you can do that. But like, okay, that's just silly.)\n\nsina jo e sitelen tenpo \\\n(Maybe don't use *jo* there? *jo* is commonly used for things that you hold or own, or things that are a part of you, not as broad as English \"have\") \\\nsina o kama suli tan selo \\\nma sewi li wile e sina \\\nona li o awen \\\n(Ahhh okay, we're being self aware about it)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\no mu! \\","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san.md","digest":"bf9cc8ae358bf5f3","rendered":{"html":"carry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \nmi li soaring ever higher \n(that’s not how li works) \ntaso flew too high\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that’s kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \nI hear the voices when I’m teaching \nI can hear them say\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en ‘cause that’s also not how en works) \nWell, it surely means I didn’t read \n(also that sounds mean out of context)\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \nTossed about here is the way that I’m feeling \n(that’s not wrong, but that’s just a cheap rhyme) \nI set a course for winds pi fortune \n(ok you’re doing this on purpose) \nBut I hear the voices say \n(this… this is gonna take a while)\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? pi doesn’t mean of. It doesn’t! You can’t put just one word behind it. pi introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can’t cross parts of speech either, you can’t put e inside of pi! But listen, if you didn’t modify the head of a pi phrase, so you said like ijo pi ijo, it would literally be the same as if you didn’t use pi, except that would be correct, as in ijo ijo! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: Toki Pona: The Language of Good, where the definition of pi is listed as “of”, and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the other place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use pi incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. People reference ilo pi nanpa all the time, and newbies hear that among other things and go “Oh okay, pi with one word! Got it.” But grammatically pi doesn’t mean of—or else you kinda say that every modifier works like of? And sure, you can do that. But like, okay, that’s just silly.)\nsina jo e sitelen tenpo \n(Maybe don’t use jo there? jo is commonly used for things that you hold or own, or things that are a part of you, not as broad as English “have”) \nsina o kama suli tan selo \nma sewi li wile e sina \nona li o awen \n(Ahhh okay, we’re being self aware about it)\ncarry jan my kekan san \nthere’ll be pi’s when you are lon \nwuwojiti kijete- \nsantakalu mu\no mu! \\","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":null,"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"blog"},"next":{"id":"2023/08/jan-pi-sona-weka","data":{"title":"jan pi sona weka","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"tenpo la mi pilin ike tan tawa sina \\\npoka mi la sina pilin pona pi mute ike \\\nmi en sina li kipisi musi \\\nala, taso la mi kipisi \\\nlon pakala pi olin sina la mi awen \n\njan li ken sike alasa e apeja ni \\\nli pini utala e pini lon tenpo ale \\\nolin ni li nasa mute la \\\nsina toki e ni: mi awen jan pona \\\nmi pilin pona tan ni: olin ni li weka\n\nmi wile ala e olin sina \\\ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \\\nla tan sina li seme a? \\\nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \\\nwa, sina jo e len namako \\\ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \\\nmi wile sona, taso \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n\ntenpo la mi kama lukin e pakala sina \\\nsina toki e ni: ijo ale li pakala mi \\\ntaso nasin mi li ante \\\nken la mi wile ala kute \\\nsina la mi o sama kon \\\no alasa ala kama jo e mi \\\njan olin weka o \n\nmi wile ala e olin sina \\\ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \\\nla tan sina li seme a? \\\nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \\\nwa, sina jo e len namako \\\ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \\\nmi wile sona, taso \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n\n(jan weka) \\\n(jan weka) \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \\\no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/jan-pi-sona-weka.md","digest":"f6670d4cf49b091e","rendered":{"html":"tenpo la mi pilin ike tan tawa sina \npoka mi la sina pilin pona pi mute ike \nmi en sina li kipisi musi \nala, taso la mi kipisi \nlon pakala pi olin sina la mi awen\njan li ken sike alasa e apeja ni \nli pini utala e pini lon tenpo ale \nolin ni li nasa mute la \nsina toki e ni: mi awen jan pona \nmi pilin pona tan ni: olin ni li weka\nmi wile ala e olin sina \ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \nla tan sina li seme a? \nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \nwa, sina jo e len namako \ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \nmi wile sona, taso \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\ntenpo la mi kama lukin e pakala sina \nsina toki e ni: ijo ale li pakala mi \ntaso nasin mi li ante \nken la mi wile ala kute \nsina la mi o sama kon \no alasa ala kama jo e mi \njan olin weka o\nmi wile ala e olin sina \ntaso sina toki e olin ni sama powe \nla tan sina li seme a? \nnimi sina ale li kama pakala \nwa, sina jo e len namako \ntawa anpa ni li pilin pona anu seme? \nmi wile sona, taso \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o\n(jan weka) \n(jan weka) \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o \no tawa tan mi, jan pi sona weka o","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"jan pi sona weka","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":null,"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"blog"}},"a/jan_Usawi":{"prev":{"id":"2023/08/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san","data":{"title":"carry (feat.) jan kekan san","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","jan Kekan San"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":null,"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC BY-SA-NC 4.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/album/toki-gaming"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"carry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nmi kama sewi weka pakala nasa \\\nkon len la mi kama wile e sona \\\nmi li soaring ever higher \\\n(that's not how li works) \\\ntaso flew too high\n\nmi ken lukin taso still was a blind man \\\nThough my mind could think la mi awen nasa \\\n(ok so like knowing the context of the original English line, that's kind of a deprecated usage of nasa) \\\nI hear the voices when I'm teaching \\\nI can hear them say\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\nMasquerading as a star with a bow tie \\\nIn VR chat getting ready to go live \\\nEn if I show up with my dumb gag \\\n(wait was that English and or Toki Pona en 'cause that's also not how en works) \\\nWell, it surely means I didn't read \\\n(also that sounds mean out of context)\n\nlon telo wawa seme li tawa pilin \\\n(did— was that seme used as a relativizer) \\\nTossed about here is the way that I'm feeling \\\n(that's not wrong, but that's just a cheap rhyme) \\\nI set a course for winds pi fortune \\\n(ok you're doing this on purpose) \\\nBut I hear the voices say \\\n(this… this is gonna take a while)\n\ncarry jan my kekan san \\\nthere'll be pi's when you are lon \\\nwuwojiti kijete- \\\nsantakalu mu\n\n(Okay, do we really need to go into this? *pi* doesn't mean *of*. It doesn't! You can't put just one word behind it. *pi* introduces a head word, then you modify that head word, and then that whole thing goes on to modify the head of the current part of speech. And it can't cross parts of speech either, you can't put *e* inside of *pi*! But listen, if you didn't modify the head of a *pi* phrase, so you said like *ijo pi ijo*, it would literally be the same as if you didn't use *pi*, except that would be correct, as in *ijo ijo*! And okay, this misconception comes from two places: *Toki Pona: The Language of Good*, where the definition of *pi* is listed as \"of\", and the whole point there is to be a teaching tool, it gets the idea across pretty well without being too wrong. But the *other* place is that particularly skilled speakers will intentionally use *pi* incorrectly, as in with just one word, for laughs. So yeah, I understand the confusion. 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There was a little Spanish flea
pipi li ken ala moli
He heard of singers like Beatles
and The Chipmunks he’d seen on TV
why not jan Usawi?

ilo Simiki li wawa
mi wile kute ala e ona
jan Usawi li pali mute li ken ala lon ala
e pali sin mute a