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kala Asi @asi.fish · 26/09/2026

(i forgot to post this immediately when the newsletter came out, sorry!)

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 16/08/2026

this is homestuck i think

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 15/07/2026

I would recommend turning 2-3 of these into presentable documents and uploading them to lipamanka.gay as a showcase. (worth keeping track of the time it takes to do that too)

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 07/07/2026

true, partners should be shared not traded

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 15/06/2026

So I use youtube with dearrow. It replaces thumbnails with automatic screengrabs from the video. It's supposed to reduce clickbait. Sometimes, however, the automatic thumbnails are absolute treasures

The thumbnail of a game show video from the Technical Difficulties, with Tom Scott in the background, as Gary Brannan's face is amusingly uncomfortably close to the camera

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 03/06/2026

"go" meaning "let's (go and)..." has also been borrowed to Russian slang, at least as of the 2010s

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 02/06/2026

nothing wrong in being a night mare

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 21/05/2026

I can't believe they got Ben Doyle to join them for another season, exciting!

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 09/05/2026

There are suffixes you can use to subtract full-sentence uses of ngrams, e.g. toki - toki_FULL - toki a_FULL to only see non phatic toki

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 29/04/2026

oh you know, *gestures broadly*

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 10/04/2026

things may be bad but hey at least we're not in 2029

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 06/04/2026

this really brocas my wernicke

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 16/12/2025

mi utala ala li wile sona e pilin sina taso

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 16/12/2025

can you share some examples of either?

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 08/12/2025

ilo li pona e pali sina la pona

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 27/11/2025

today in this seminar on the terminologal system of speculative diachronic sociolinguistics, we'll be talking about how we'll be talking about how we'll be talking about how we'll be talking

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 10/11/2025

this grape image seems likely to be a reference to Nowe Ateny, an 18th century polish encyclopedia

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 30/08/2025

pines consist of rods and cones. what are the lookin at

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 28/07/2025

makes sense, cheers

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 28/07/2025

theyre in the bio

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 21/05/2025

sorry bout that, try now

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 21/05/2025

I can try to add you manually if you dm me your email

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 24/04/2025

Archaicam Esperantom was recently used in a Toki Pona April Fools zine: liputenpo.org/toki/nanpa-k...

liputenpo.org

Diwidom Corpes ed Menses - lipu tenpo

Diwidom Corpes ed Menses

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 15/03/2025

i just can't take carousels seriously they're always horsing around

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 15/03/2025

The main problem is Bluesky has hundreds of open PRs, and maintainers take a while to go through the backlog.

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 05/02/2025

Captioned Gary Brannan is the best

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 30/01/2025

my 2¢: hermits can decide to stop associating with an individual any time they want. doesn't matter how guilty they are, or how serious the offense is. they are a team and its their choice who to work with. "cancel culture" is just... communities' ability to self moderate.

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 24/01/2025

For reference, most of the toki pona activity happens on Discord. We have a decent sub-demographic of Fedi users and have at times tried to establish communities in Mastodon (toki.social) and Matrix, but the community size never snowballed. Hopefully one succeeds on bluesky, but we'll see.

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 23/01/2025

It's open for free to anyone who's on ma pona

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 22/01/2025

we have a long running toki pona server on ma pona on Discord!

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 22/01/2025

so something like > nasa la mi toki pona wawa lon lawa. could work. overall, you know enough words to begin your journey, but you haven't seen enough sentences to get a feel for how they are structured! id recommend reading more texts or talking to other teachers of the language.

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 22/01/2025

> nasa la mi toki pona tawa pi telo seme? i think by "tawa" (move) you meant "lawa" (head). not sure what you meant by seme, your translation isn't a question. its cool that you know the etymology of "fluent"! in toki pona however we rarely compare fluency to flow of water. id prefer wawa (strength)

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 22/01/2025

> mi sona tenpo lili e toki pona for a beginner this is close enough! i would say > mi sona e toki pona lon tenpo lili

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 22/01/2025

in toki pona, only the second way is seen: (1) _mi_ wile pana (3) e toki pona mi (2) tawa sina. or, in more general terms: __ li __ e __ tawa __ Notice how everything after the subject has a particle/preposition! This can help you not miss an 'e'. (btw try pana for "to share"! sona is more "know")

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kala Asi @asi.fish · 22/01/2025

> i can show you my toki pona skills. okay so this sentence actually has three(!) people/things involved: 1) i 2) you 3) my toki pona (skills) in english there are two equally valid ways to construct this sentence. the one above + this one: > i can show my toki pona skills to you.

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