30001st poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 9)

one day they’re gonna raise a baby with toki pona as a first language and the resulting specimen will upend linguistics as we know it

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Toki pona only has 120 words woah

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True! I learned it in a day

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just don’t ask about anything in any level of detail

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I find myself struggling to make complicated sentences in bulgarian because i start thinking in english when i want to express something eloquently and i have to translate them back. Im fine with small talk but i have no experience with sophisticated / deep conversations and words in bulgarian

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I probabyl could speak Spanish well if I wasn’t so scared, but I just can’t do it. Mental block. And it’s been so long since I’ve had that knowledge that now I couldn’t even if I had to

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I get why people learn languages so fast when it’s a marter of survival

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Yeah and id say that can be extended to learning anything when it comes to survival

la muzeu, la 12 noaptea,

So similar with Romanian… clearly…

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Let me learn how to swear in toki pona

pakala

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Literally just means “mistake”

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Itțs a martyr of survival

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Tututskabana

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@May sina li palisa

Summary

It said it means “you are a whore”

“sina li” is ungrammatical, for some reason it’s the rule that you omit “li” when the subject is “mi” or “sina”. For example:

mi unpa e mama sina

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Now say it to somebody else than the mirror

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Tf did u just say about my momma? :triumph:

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Whatever translator you used is taking some creative liberties because palisa means stick and I’m not sure what sense they mean it

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