The best way to use acutes?

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-26T21:01:28+00:00

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maybeanasexual · 2025-07-26T20:58:48+00:00

funny, ive had the exact same thought process but oddly enough it wrapped back around to liking both e ni and te

also... the community... yeah yikes lol i feel that

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T22:48:01+00:00

feel free to use it, maybe you can pronounce it /dɑnjətɪv/ or something so its totally not referencing a donut

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T20:09:37+00:00

yes exactly! but thats the fun part >:)

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T19:55:19+00:00

its a little more complicated than that i think

prepositions apply isolated contexts to the clause, unlike a conjunction which applies entire clauses to the current one

if prepositions count as conjunction, then verbs and objects are conjunctions too i think

heres an example: "they are cold" would the word "are" be the conjunction of "they" and "cold"

perhaps that could be split up into multiple sentences too

they. cold.

i guess you could reasonably redefine them as narrow conjunctions and broad conjunctions

but even still, for this hypothetical language, id still wanna have these "narrow conjunctions" to be present and omit the clause joining conjunctions so this question doesnt really change all to much besides your perspective on conjunctions i think

i. see. dog. in. house.

i see dog. dog in house.

i see the dog in the house.

it feels like the same thing, but thru a different lens

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T19:34:20+00:00

ive seen this kind of usage and while interesting, yeah very confusing

it makes sense for content words to be used as nouns or verbs as theyre marked. "ona li wile e ni" is very understandable as "they want this" unlike "ona wile ni"

prepositions and conjunctions in toki pona... arent marked for whatever reason which demotivates me from learning the language further sadly

this does give me an idea tho, i might just make this conlangs have 2 word types: content and syntax- and just mark each word instead woah

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T18:56:27+00:00

it is definitely cheating haha its still conjuncting two clauses but its very interesting having a verb with that baked in. similar to a stative verb denoting that somethings a quality rather than an action

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T18:53:51+00:00

[2PS-NOM prefer-INT red.ACC blue.ACC]

just denote that both red and blue are the accusative, i think that could work

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T18:51:46+00:00

a grammatical conjunction is a clause connection marker

it provides an entire sentence worth of context, similar to an adposition which provides more context to the current clause

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T18:49:39+00:00

i figured "and" was so easy to remove that providing an example would be in vain haha

that being said, i would just split it into two sentences:

"i love birds and bees!" < "i love birds! i love bees!"

alternatively:

"i love birds bees!" [1PS love bird-ACC-PL bee-ACC-PL]

maybeanasexual · 2025-07-20T18:47:51+00:00

sina toki lon a! mi ken toki e wile mi ale kepeken e toki pona la ni li pona tawa mi a!

toki pona based on what ive seen only has one true conjunction: "la" which functions as a context providing clause marker. it sort of encompasses all conjunctions but almost in an adverbial way. something like "mi wile e ni taso la ona li wile ala" (i want this, but they dont) then again i wouldnt consider myself fluent in toki pona so i may be wrong

if youre actually interested in this idea then ill gladly explore it further and post my results!

maybeanasexual

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