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% toki pona personal style
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% /dev/urandom
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% 2020-12-02
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Different people have different ideas about how toki pona is supposed to work.
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Given the language's intentionally minimalist grammar and vocabulary, that's to
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be expected. Here's a list of my personal preferences and phrases that I use
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commonly.
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* In sentences that only have "mi" or "sina" as a subject, but several
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predicates (verbs or adjectives that would otherwise be separated by "li", I
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separate the sentence into two:
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> mi pali. mi moku. - I work and eat.
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* I try to avoid using "en" anywhere other than the subject, but tolerate using
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it in phrases that follow "pi".
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* When I use "kepeken" as a verb ("to use") instead of a preposition ("using,
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with the help of"), I include the object marker "e" the same way I would with
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other verbs.
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* I may insert commas as pauses to differentiate between ambiguious phrases or
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to help in reading possibly confusing sentences. For example:
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> mi pana e tomo tawa sina. - I give your car.
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> mi pana e tomo, tawa sina. - I give you a house.
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> mi pana e tomo tawa, tawa sina. - I give a car to you.
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* I insert commas after "la" in all circumstances:
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> ken la, mi ken pali. - Maybe I can work.
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> tomo pali li open la, mi ken pali. - If the office is open, I can work.
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* I use "open" and "pini" as pre-verbs meaning "begin (doing smth)" "finish/stop
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(doing something)".
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* When a numeral is used as a number, I usually write it with Arabic numerals.
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If it's an ordinal number, the word "nanpa" may be represented with a number
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sign (`#`).
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* I don't use "pi" before "nanpa" if it's followed by an ordinal number.
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* I use "pu" as all possible parts of speech, not just as a verb.
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