All the cool tokiponists are pin't in math, too
After all, the language was inspired by Tauist philosophy
you know why pi sucks compared to tau? it's basically half as interesting
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in reply to @The-Menagerie's post:
nimi ‘τ’ li kalama e seme?
ala li sona.
ona sama nasa pi nimi ‘y’ pi nimi yupekosi. 😌
(kin la, tfw i'm very much not pin't. 😔)
(..am pin'tn't)
(But that one is easy to rewrite without: ona li nasa sama nimi ‘y’ lon nimi yupekosi)
(Preposition legitimizes,,)
(….….….this feels like a breakthrough moment for me, and reminds me of when i learned a zillion years ago how the grammar of esperanto is such that you don't have to write ”estas“ over and over again simply by turning adjectives into verbs, and that was a fantastic feeling.
this feels even deeper than that????)
(are you 100% pin't?
because that little reshuffle was all that it took to make me want to practice avoiding pi now, before mmmaaaaaybe relaxing this restriction an itty bit in the future)
(so excited to become a cool tokiponist now (even if temporarily))
awek pi li pona tau a mi
I aim to be full pin't but that would probably change in toki pona uta lol, it's a lot harder to calculate those reshuffles outside of text even if it's starting to come more naturally
mi pilin e ni: there'll definitely be enough of a pattern such that many would come naturally, even if you must resort to π at times.
i'm wondering whether i'll encounter situations where i think that pi is just nicer than the reshuffle, or whether the absence of pi phrases would always just be pona??
also wondering what your thoughts on the ”e ni:“ solution for complement clauses are, since it feels related to some of the motives for pin't ing??
(might not be the place to ask this with how the formatting of cohost comments discourages full‑blown conversations tho — actually, would you want toki pona nasin asks??)
ni: is good because it lets you start a separate clause (like la), instead of trying to cram particle-type information into a noun phrase
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