jan_Inkepa

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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   For those interested in seeing the scope/variation of cinderella stories, there’s a book “cinderella; three hundred and forty-five variants” https://archive.org/details/cu31924007918299 that is ... I wouldn’t reco
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   Game dev here. I've used Godot only a little bit, and Unity a lot. If you're working a lot with a single game engine, it's nice to have a programming language that's tightly coupled to it. When Unity moved away from Unit
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   I’m reasonably fluent in it, so I can keep an internal Toki Pona voice going - the main bottleneck is my typing speed on this keyboard still (on a regular qwerty keyboard I can chat realtime fine with people in Toki Pona), but hopefully tha
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   The official Toki Pona book details a procedure for word-borrowing (and also has a suggested list of translated country names). The online the only source is a way more linguistically-flavoured article by the creator of the language, that
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   There’s a process of transliteration/loaning that you can do if you want to import words from foreign languages. They’re slightly firewalled form the rest of the language (they’re not first-class content words), but because you can ta
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   Thanks! The base keyboard is a commodity koolertron one-haded keyboard ( https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07WC4YBVY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_... ), and the switches it uses according to the spec manual are OEM Outemu
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   You'd still have to specify the system before you could use it, and that would probably require new syntax/grammar to be added to the language. ( Silly analogy: "C has latin character support; why can't it support Roman
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   Yeah, you're right. The word translated as 'stone' also can mean 'hard object, metal, rock', and refers here to plastic object - so the 3d printer is somehow a "hard-object device". Doesn't make muc
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   by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

   I can ssh in and sync (I could get it to sync automatically, but haven't been bothered). Hurrah for R-Pi. [ I was thinking of connecting it to a thermal printer, but honestly I have enough bits of paper lying around my room already...
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Minimalism is one side, but having fun is another side. Having a small number of words also lends itself a lot to hieroglyphic systems - people love inventing new writing systems (also number systems...) for it.
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    mi pona e pakala (tenpo kama lili la pakala li kama weka lon lipu mi :) ). pona tawa sina!
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    toki pona has two number systems. One is "zero, one, two, many", the other lets you specify exact whole numbers by combining together words for 1,2,5,20,100 additively. (so 63 is 20,20,20,2,1). It's yeah a bit cumbersome,
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Oh right, I cheated with one factual detail - it was turpentine and not alcohol :( (I tried alcohol first, but turpentine was waaaay better)
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Yeah. Vehicle code is a good example. Having a limited vocabulary hits you hard when it comes to technical/legal texts, and when you don't have context to refer to (The text on the page linked to doesn't make sense when you c
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Yeah. I had originally mocked up a command-prompt, scripting language etc., but in the end I realised the only thing I actually wanted to do with it was write, so I focussed on that as my goal :)
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    >For example, it does not have words for numbers It has two official number systems (described in the official Toki Pona book - https://tokipona.org ). They're not practical for big numbers, and they are a bit cumbersom
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Oh, hello! I made this. If you've any questions just shoot :)
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Toki Pona takes lots of words from Finnish! - http://ucteam.ru/toki-pona/
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    I hadn't come across this translator before. It's pretty fancy!
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    The input system is a bit fancier/more obscure than that. Toki Pona uses 14 letters when written with the Latin alphabet (on screen, for those confused, it's displayed as Sitelen Pona, a hieroglyphic writing system for Toki Pona
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    a a a. ken!
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    My pleasure! The best place to learn is from the official Toki Pona book by Sonja herself: http://tokipona.org If that's too much of an investment, the next best thing is the course "o kama sona e toki pona" by ja
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    This is how many languages works, but the spirit of Toki Pona is genuinely different (though many learners come in with the impression). Learning compound phrases won't really help you much. One could say that the idea is to, if you h
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Yip, it uses ligatures, but it also has a system where you can say put a box around text by using the underscore character w/ square braces ("[_mi_pilin]" has the "mi" and "pilin" characters with a cartouc
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    There’s a compiled etymology list here, for those interested. http://ucteam.ru/toki-pona/
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    sure! Talking about daily life works pretty well (general chit chat - asking people how they’re feeling, what they’ve been doing, assuming you know something about their lives already there won’t be many ambiguities). online, I often share
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Here are some (IMO) silly/potentially interesting tech projects in the Toki Pona world: --- ilo nanpa - a calculator using the Toki Pona number system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWCLg4H_4U --- linja pona - a font
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    Trying to interpret sentences out of context in Toki Pona is indeed tricky! However, "sina wile ala wile moku e telo pimeja?" (Do you want to eat black water?) can be quite accurately reconstructed as "do you want a coffee?&q
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    >Another practical step could be to identify a specific minimal set of language units required for any given popular nonconstructed language. Is this already a thing? You mean something like this question? https://news.ycombin
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    by jan_Inkepa 7y ago

    (long-time lurker here...) Yip, there are definitely topics I butt into where I hit a wall too -_- . But with time I got much better at navigating them and have had several-hour-long conversations IRL as well as online using just Toki Pona