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.

  • @vimino@lemmy.mlOP
    2•3 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. :)

    • Dessalines
      2•3 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.

      • @vimino@lemmy.mlOP
        1•3 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

      • Delika
        0•2 years ago

        There is no letter “g” in toki pona and “pig” does not follow the toki pona syllabary. Also, never put “ala” in the beginning of a predicate if you don’t want to mean “zero”, “ala” is usually a modifier that shows negative or opposite, so it must go after what it modifies. Separators never are modified, they just show a sentence’s part of speech.