Talk:Toki Pona/Archive 2

message: Now that it seems that the Toki Pona article will definitely stay, I am interested in improving the Backus-Naur syntax overview for the language that i worked on a several months ago. Does anyone see anything I may have left out, or have any other suggestions/questions about the overview? Intangir 20:11, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a BNF syntax of Toki Pona would be excessive detail for a Wikipedia article.  But such an in-depth study would be fitting for the Conlang Wikicity. --Jim Henry | Talk 14:49, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 

message: Damian Yerrick described Kisa's latest description of the language as "the standard dialect" in an edit which Jerzy then reverted.  I think Jerzy reversion was probably correct although not perhaps for the reasons he gave in his edit comment.  Can anyone describe consistent dialectical differences between the Toki Pona used in, say, the mailing list vs. the Wikicity?  The latest official version by Kisa is not a dialect unless someone speaks it, which I doubt; Kisa has never published full lessons based on the latest revisions, so everyone who learns the language does so by studying one or more of the unofficial series of lessons (there are lessons in German, Esperanto, French, Catalan and Russian, all based more or less on Pije's English lessons). --Jim Henry | Talk 14:49, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dialects"? 

message: I added Esperanto, because the connection seemed logical.  If you guys don't like it, go ahead and expunge it.--Rockero 05:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also 

message: I mean, where is this known? In which circles/country/...? From where are the supossed speakers? --euyyn 03:27, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's spoken by a few dozen people scattered around in North America and Europe.  If there are speakers in Africa, Asia etc. I don't know about them, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn of them.  More specifically I know of speakers from the U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Germany, and the Czech Republic who are or have been active on the Toki Pona Yahoo Groups mailing list, and there are people on the TP Wikia and/or IRC who aren't on the mailing list. --Jim Henry 15:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  If it wasn't deleted it should state notability 

message: Hyenaste wrote as the summary of this edit:
:Phonology - not even sure what these tags do...
This refers to codes like ijo. This marks the word ijo as being in Toki Pona, where x-tokipona is an RFC 3066 language tag. If you have Mozilla Firefox or Firefox Community Edition, you can bring up the context menu on a word and choose Properties to see its language. Try it here:
*ona li pona! (produces "Text language: Tokipona")
*All is well! (produces "Text language: English")
Or a multilingual HTML screen reader can pick up on the lang attribute and pronounce phrases in Toki Pona with the appropriate rules. --jan Tepo 00:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How interesting! Thanks for the explanation. Hyenaste (tell) 00:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One more thing: RFC 3066 uses x- codes only for those languages that don't have a unique ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-2 short code. For example, lang="nl" not lang="x-dutch". --Damian Yerrick (☎) 14:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah ok, I'll consult List of ISO 639-1 codes then if I'm unsure. Hyenaste (tell) 16:56, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  &lt;i lang="x-tokipona"&gt; 

message: I've heard legends of a Toki Pona Wikipedia, that was lost in the sands of time, are these merely fables or is it true?Cameron Nedland 20:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There used to be one at tokipona:Main Page, but it was moved out of Wikipedia into Wikia at . Hyenaste (tell) 21:00, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, thanks.Cameron Nedland 12:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Why was it moved? --fudo (questions?) 18:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia 

message: Do you really need to put Ms. Kisa's personal history on this page? But it might become more notable if and when she becomes famous for more than just one conlang. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 04:59, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  notability?