''' wrote:Ah, gotcha.
Hmm, a thought, might start a thread on it, but what is the minimum amout of words with which you can express all the (non technical, non specific) ideas you need to. For isntance, TP has separators which I don't think are important, it alos has unpa for sex, which to me should probably be somethign like "pysical/concrete love". At the same time I think that having a word which can distinguish things in binary relationships is important (male/female light/dark big/small) arguably ala fulfills this role, but I'm not sure if TP uses it thus. Maybe we shoudl start a thread and people can keep cutting suggestions down into even smaller parts.
Well, there are some words that are pretty fundamental in toki pona.
For example,
unpa is pretty basic. Physical love seems a little subjective, since how can love be connected with sex? One could express a loving form of sex, saying
unpa olin (loving sex) as opposed to
unpa wawa (hard sex) to something like
unpa ike (bad sex, rape?).
male -
mije, female -
melilight -
suno, dark -
pimejabig -
suli, small -
liliBut yes,
ala does fit the role with binaries time to time. While
wawa means strength,
wawa ala would mean weakness. Mobility is with
tawa, while immobility would be
tawa ala.
The grammatical particles are just there to help keep us from going
nasa (crazy), lol.