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Sentence #6122814

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Raizin Raizin June 3, 2017, edited October 2, 2020 June 3, 2017 at 2:14:56 AM UTC, edited October 2, 2020 at 2:08:28 PM UTC link Permalink

Annotation:

This sentence can be found (with different punctuation) in the Toki Pona Proverbs section in the official Toki Pona book (Toki Pona: The Language of Good by Sonja Lang, 2014)

Translation given in the book:
- When I erase somebody's faults, I cleanse myself of negativity.

List of all official Toki Pona proverbs:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/show/7042

Tepan Tepan October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 10:17:16 AM UTC link Permalink

la -> , la

soweli_Elepanto soweli_Elepanto October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 10:21:13 AM UTC link Permalink

@Tepan
sina wile e ijo "," tan seme?

Tepan Tepan October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 10:24:01 AM UTC link Permalink

jan Raizin li toki e ni: "This sentence can be found in the Toki Pona Proverbs section in the official Toki Pona book (Toki Pona: The Language of Good by Sonja Lang, 2014)"

ni li lon. nimi mute ni li tan lipu pi jan Sonja. nimi mute ni pi jan Sonja li jo e sitelen ",".

soweli_Elepanto soweli_Elepanto October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 10:38:38 AM UTC link Permalink

pona! taso sona pi nimi «la» en nimi «, la» li sama ala sama?

Tepan Tepan October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 10:41:30 AM UTC link Permalink

jan li awen ken kama sona e kon pi mute nimi ni. mi toki e ni taso: sitelen pi mute nimi ni kama ante lon jan Raizin.

soweli_Elepanto soweli_Elepanto October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 10:47:58 AM UTC link Permalink

pona!

Raizin Raizin October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 2:21:44 PM UTC link Permalink

pona. mi pana e "(with different punctuation)" tawa toki mi.

The more direct quote with comma is also already found in the Tatoeba database. Both are completely correct and normative Toki Pona, so there is no reason to remove or correct one or the other.

Tepan Tepan October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 at 2:42:20 PM UTC link Permalink

Fair enough.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #4829109mi weka e ike jan, la mi weka e ike mi..

mi weka e ike jan la mi weka e ike mi.

added by Raizin, June 3, 2017