I tried to use Toki Pona and made this phrase:
mi lukin sona toki lon ni ike nasa toki taso ni li ala sama soweli toki
But I think it’s missing something, so I’m asking you guys to translate it so I can see if it’s understandable.
It doesn’t make any sense to me.
I vocally understandingly see here vocally strange badness, but this isn’t like animal talk.
You seem to use adjectives in the wrong order. I can’t understand the first half but if the second half is supposed to be, “but this isn’t animal talk”, that should be “ni li ala toki soweli.”
i seek to know how to talk in that complex, unusual language that (is) not like Pig Latin
That’s a strange sounding sentence to me in english also. If you were trying to say: “I want to learn to speak a complex strange language, that isn’t pig latin.” It’d be something like:
mi wile kama sona e toki nasa ike. toki ni li ala "pig latin.
ah so you wouldn’t translate pig latin. just like names in many languages thanks for teaching me and no, the sentence doesn’t make much sense but I kinda edited it as I saw new toki pona phrases
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also oh my god i just noticed that this thread is from 2 years ago lol, i ddn’t know lemmy is this old. i hope you got your answer elsewhere in the meantime!
it’s missing grammar. even with HEAVY interpolation and deduction i’m guessing you’re trying to say something like “I seek language knowledge (i want to learn) in this weird bad language, but it’s not (or did you mistake this word for ale and wanted to say all?) like animal speech.” but that might be a lot of conjecture on my part
first of all you’ve messed up the order of words in phrases. in toki pona, the head of the phrase comes first, so it’s a “balloon red big” not a “big red balloon” (sike loje suli).
Second of all, you did use the word “li” there which is good, but you’re missing another very important word for SVO sentences, the particle “e”. That word makes it so that the phrase following it is the subject of the sentence, so “mi lukin e ona” means “i see them”
Thirdly, the word “lon” is kind of confusing me, which is probably because your sentence construction is not very good. but if the start of the sentence is trying to say something like “I’m learning this weird language” or “i want to learn it”, i would not use lon, i’d either say “mi kama sona e…” or “mi wile (kama) sona e…”
fourthly, animal sounds have a special word in toki pona, that being mu. yes it sounds like moo.
so the whole sentence would be something like “mi wile kama sona e toki nasa ni. taso, ni ale li sama e mu.”
