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.

  • DessalinesA
    3·
    4 years ago

    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.”

    • viminoOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      I knew it. Anyway, this is what I tried to translate:

      i seek to know how to talk in that complex, unusual language that (is) not like Pig Latin

      I just took words from a guide and replaced them without paying attention to the structure.

      Thanks for confirming and translating. :)

      • DessalinesA
        2·
        4 years ago

        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.

        • viminoOP
          2·
          4 years ago

          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