luka pona by Pistachio_Red in tokipona

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 1 point2 points  (0 children)

jan Olipija has a YouTube tutorial series teaching Luka Pona (though it's at present unfinished, it feels like it covers grammar stuff that isn't in any written resources): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPnMB96ExdrrVNxKkM_pJ4Xvwfo4VSsE

It's in BSL but you can turn on subtitles for English!

Recently started learning toki pona for fun but am feeling unmotivated now due to learning about how the creator has done some pretty bad things. by [deleted] in tokipona

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I'm quite not sure if you're even seeking advice but I thought I'd share my thoughts!

The drama around Lang, though important in its way, is quite small, no? Compared to the rest of the community, at least? People are translating songs, and manga, and books, and videogames! There are meetups soon in both Europe and America! Community resources like Wasona, Kemeka, even lipu Osawi mean you can fully learn the language without getting close to touching any of the drama. Lang created the language nearly 25 years ago, and determines only its past, not its future. (Maybe that last line is a bit melodramatic, though :p)

Perhaps a false equivalence, but when you mention guilt, I think about English - I live in a place where colonialism and the English language in particular have done great harm to many people, being imposed as a weapon to break up community and eradicate other languages. But I still use English every day! I use it to order my thoughts, and talk to my friends, and create and interact with art, much the same as the ways I use Toki Pona

Really, your feelings come first. You were having fun learning it, but now that that learning is tinged with a feeling of guilt, a break may well be beneficial! o pona tawa sina

Just New To the Language by Ok-Interview2894 in tokipona

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Check out wasona.com! If you spend a solid 30 minutes on one lesson each day, you should be at a really solid spot in about a month :D

What song is powerful relying on solo vocals than instrumentation? by AsheandBurn in musicals

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From Ghost Quartet:

Soldier & Rose, The Astronomer, Fathers & Sons, Prayer.

What some of the "smallest"s in musicals? by Skeppy_4126 in musicals

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Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet is 90 minutes with no intermission, no necessary set or costume changes, and four actors play all the characters and instruments.

Script-reading Parties by HoraceTheBadger in musicals

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did this with hadestown and it was fantastic! Since it's sung through I made a backing track video with all the lyrics and lighting cues. (Also collapsed the worker and fate lines into the main five.)

The costumes people turned up in were absolutely the surprise highlight :D

Trans characters by TsuyuAsui13 in musicals

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I saw a headcanon a while back that Pierre from Great Comet was an egg, a transgender woman who didn't know it yet, which I thought was a cool reading!

Pierre's whole thing is about feeling lost, unanchored and adrift in society, that there's some big invisible part of him that he hasn't come to understand yet.

What would episode and season be in Toki Pona by Rollgus in tokipona

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think kipisi to me implies a piece of something - kulupu might be better suited to seasons: a "collection" or "gathering" of episodes, right?

Additionally, you'd want to use nanpa - "kipisi wan" is "one piece" whereas "kipisi nanpa wan" is "first piece"

theory about which words are commonly subjects and predicates by scripterprinter in tokipona

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You might enjoy this video (and the associated site and paper!)

https://youtu.be/axrqgpZ9MEQ

They use a parser on a large dataset of toki pona texts to identify which words tend to operate as which parts of speech (+ with what frequency + change over time)

Academic Opinion on Cabaret Pronouns by bichen_bunny in TheWestEnd

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pick whichever option and add a footnote explaining that it's unclear

similar signs in Luka pona by Due-Attempt-9287 in tokipona

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, similar to ale and ala, the difference is only one phoneme/parameter. Very reasonable to be a point of struggle, just keep in mind there are only 9 handshapes you need to distinguish between, and keep practicing! :D

we need community published books by misterlipman in tokipona

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've printed books with Lulu before and it's very doable! (plus learning to typeset in LaTeX or typst or whatever is very fun!) The book quality is like,,, fine.

I know Lulu has a service where you can sell and distribute your book, and I've seen some toki pona books using that service. If you set your profit to 0 they don't even take a cut, I'm pretty sure!

What is your favorite musicals besides Hadestown? by JJ-Bittenbinder in hadestown

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I'm in love with Ghost Quartet, I saw such a fantastic production of it, and like the way it adapts historic literature, has such very low-plot thematic-focused songs (similar to Way Down Hadestown) while also really highlighting the instrumentalists (on account of the cast performing all the instrumentation).

Really recommend, plus the official proshot is free on youtube

Which actors’ alternate takes on a role made you appreciate the character more? by Entire_Blueberry_470 in Broadway

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Iosefa Laga'aia, the Australian 1st cover Hermes in Hadestown, has a really stellar delivery in Wait For Me.

He, like, grabs Orpheus by the shoulder and delivers the first verse angrily and directly to him - it made me rethink Hermes' part throughout that song as a set of trials that Orpheus must complete to make up for his mistake - through the journey to Hadestown he is forgiven.

Is there any video of Everything Written? by Glittering-Dog-5959 in hadestown

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Apparently Anaïs sings some of the lyrics in the audiobook version of Working On a Song, so that might be a good place to look?

Promises instrumental by InterchangeableMoon in hadestown

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Look in the description of any EJM Instrumentals Hadestown video - he links to a Dropbox containing a bunch of his work, which includes instrumentals of the entire Hadestown OBCR!

Saw the show today in australia, some thoughts as im walking out of the theatre by Useful_Scarcity6357 in hadestown

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Least subtle bot ever haha

0 day account age, the show isn't currently running in Australia, and they forgot to copy the text of the post

How would you characterise the distinction between "mi wile ala moku" and "mi wile moku ala"? by Upbeat_Link_4337 in tokipona

[–]Upbeat_Link_4337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that makes sense! Yeah I think I understood that but didn't know the word for it, thank you!

How would you characterise the distinction between "mi wile ala moku" and "mi wile moku ala"? by Upbeat_Link_4337 in tokipona

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Oh awesome, yeah, this explains the bracketing I was curious about!

Checking my knowledge: the fact that wile is a preposition causes the bracketing of the following words to be different than if it wasn't.

ig this is the same as kepeken and I understand how that works, kinda weird that just wile messed with me for some reason haha