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ona li tan toki ante. toki ante ni li Dreams Come True li tan S.E.S.

dreams come true

tan jan Usawi sike #2023 ) #8 ) #5

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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":{"title":"Carry On Wayward Son","authors":["Kansas"]},"license":"CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 AND LicenseRef-AllRightsReserved","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/track/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"poki"},"next":{"id":"2023/08/in-order-to-play-the-spanish-flea","data":{"title":"in order to play the spanish flea","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","ijo Son"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","original":{"title":"The Spanish Flea","authors":["Herb Albert"]},"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/track/in-order-to-play-the-spanish-flea"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"body":"There was a little Spanish flea \\\npipi li ken ala moli \\\nHe heard of singers like Beatles \\\nand *The Chipmunks* he'd seen on TV \\\nwhy not jan Usawi?\n\nilo Simiki li wawa \\\nmi wile kute ala e ona \\\njan Usawi li pali mute li ken ala lon ala \\\ne pali sin mute a","filePath":"poki/plaintext/2023/08/in-order-to-play-the-spanish-flea.md","digest":"4e5058fb1bac2695","rendered":{"html":"There was a little Spanish flea \npipi li ken ala moli \nHe heard of singers like Beatles \nand The Chipmunks he’d seen on TV \nwhy not jan Usawi?\nilo Simiki li wawa \nmi wile kute ala e ona \njan Usawi li pali mute li ken ala lon ala \ne pali sin mute a","metadata":{"headings":[],"localImagePaths":[],"remoteImagePaths":[],"frontmatter":{"title":"in order to play the spanish flea","description":null,"authors":["jan Usawi","ijo Son"],"proofreaders":null,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00.000Z","date-precision":"day","tags":["music","pop"],"original":{"title":"The Spanish Flea","authors":["Herb Albert"]},"license":"CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/track/in-order-to-play-the-spanish-flea"],"archives":null,"preprocessing":null,"accessibility-notes":null,"notes":null},"imagePaths":[]}},"collection":"poki"}},"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":{"title":"Carry On Wayward Son","authors":["Kansas"]},"tags":["music","pop"],"license":"CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 AND LicenseRef-AllRightsReserved","sources":["https://janusawi.bandcamp.com/track/carry-feat-jan-kekan-san"],"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":"0e6f9eb15f05d1cc","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. 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wile len la sina o
lukin e sitelen pi lukin mi
tenpo lon la toki len mi o
len ala tan wile open ni
Baby

Funny how all dreams come true
mi o awen e sina
e olin lili pi tawa waso
Funny how I feel for you
mi olin e ale sina
pilin en lawa en sijelo

tenpo open sewi la
pilin mi li sama wawa suli
sama linja pi toki awen la
lawa mi li jasima toki
Baby

Funny how all dreams come true
mi o awen e sina
e olin lili pi tawa waso
Funny how I feel for you
mi olin e sina taso

Come on lover
o kama lon tenpo ale
sina poka mi la mi pilin pona
mi kute ala e kalama musi pi pilin ike
tan ni: sina sona e mi

o toki
sina wile awen taso anu open e ni?
a, mi wan
sina wan
taso mi tu li wan kin
sina seli e pilin lete
li kule e ijo mute
o weka ala wawa sina

Funny how all dreams come true
mi o awen e sina
e olin lili pi tawa waso
Funny how I feel for you
o pana tawa poka mi
e tenpo kama pi pona suno