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Description: a translation of Lemon Demon’s song Spiral of Ants, into everyone’s favorite conlang with under 200 words. directly inspired by jan Misali’s toki pona translations of various Rhythm Heaven and WarioWare songs.

Tags: ao3 music

Sources: archiveofourown.org

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Notes: mi nasin Markdown e lipu open pi nasin HTML

sike pipi

monumentofgranite
Dec 16, 2024

!!! note

toki! for any Lemon Demon fans here unsure of what toki pona is: here is a link! for any toki pona speakers unsure of what Lemon Demon is: here is another link!

hope you enjoy! right now there isn’t a commentary or anything but there will be… I just need to get this posted so I don’t have to remember all the CSS stuff I gotta do for that all at once!

sike pipi
a toki pona translation of “Spiral of Ants” by Neil Cicierega
translated by jan Konen

ali li tawa e nasin kon
sike li lawa kepeken kon pi pilin wawa
sike li lawa e sina

o tawa
li o pali pona
sina pali anu moli
pali li nasin taso
insa sike pipi

ona li toki ike
o kute ala e ni
sina sewi e toki ona
insa sike pipi

sina sona ala e nasin
(insa sike pipi)
sina sona ala e ante
(insa sike pipi)
sina sona ala
sina pipi

sike li pana e nasin kon
ali li tawa e ni tan ni:
pilin li wawa suli
sike li lawa e sina

sike la
o awen kon, a!
ni la moli li ala, a
sina ken tawa e nasin ali
insa sike pipi

pipi li lukin e ni:
ona pi toki ike
li tawa anpa sama kiwen (sama kiwen)
insa sike pipi

sina sona ali e nasin
(insa sike pipi)
sina sona ali e ante
(insa sike pipi)
sina awen sike
sina pipi

(sike, sike, sike, sin—)

ali li tawa e nasin kon
sike li lawa kepeken
kon pi pilin wawa

kon li suli e wawa mute
tenpo wan la sike li kama
e kon utala
kon li pana weka e jan ali
mi toki ni:
sike li lawa e sina

!!! note

this was directly inspired by jan Misali’s translations of various Rhythm Heaven/WarioWare songs. if you are jan Misali: sorry for stealing your typing pattern and general style. but I am crediting you for it! so anyone who likes this will go and check out your YouTube channel, which has a lot of stuff that’s like this but in video format and better put-together, as well as a wide variety of other content! and perhaps even your Bandcamp which features many original songs!

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