Toki Pona Dictionary

tenpo ku li lon a! Explore the world's most simple and fun language! How can a language with only 137 essential words express the totality of human experience? Toki Pona Dictionary is a comprehensive two-way dictionary with a total of over 11,000 entries, garnished with 43 fun illustrations by Vacon Sartirani. These translations will equip you with helpful examples and commonly used options to inspire and guide your self-expression. kijetesantakalu tonsi li lanpan ala lanpan e soko? This work documents Toki Pona as a living language and includes many new words created by the growing community. Explore the world's most simple and fun language!

"Toki Pona was my philosophical attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words....I first published my micro-language on the Web in 2001....In this book, I hope to present the language in its completed form."--From the preface.

"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.

Here at last is a convenient, paperback Ido grammar book suitable for total beginners, as well as a reference for more advanced students. This complete Ido language grammar and workbook of nearly 500 pages is a derivative work compiled by an Ido student for home study without a tutor. It contains considerable material reproduced from the internet, reformatted and reorganized to create a progressive writing workbook, plus original material from the author. It focuses on writing Ido phrases, sentences, and short emails and letters. It contains original prose and fiction material written in Ido, useful for practicing translation. Includes Ido-English/ English-Ido dictionary based on Dyer, 2000 Ido sentences translated into English from Tatoeba, writing lessons for using correct Ido phrases, and a special chapter on advanced Ido grammar. Learn to read literature and write letters in Ido. Practice conversational phrases so you can post on Ido message boards and participate in Ido chatrooms on the Internet. Introduce and describe yourself, ask questions of new friends, and make everyday conversation. The global Ido community is active on the Internet, posting Ido messages at Facebook, Yahoo, and Google groups. Most of it is keyboard Ido, which is much easier than speaking. Join them and meet friendly people from all over the world, communicating easily with this simple language that is quick to learn and fun to use, and helps to build global community and promote international understanding. Ido for Reading and Writing is copyrighted under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license and priced at cost, honoring the global, free-share tradition of the Ido community. Distributing through Amazon makes it easily available world-wide with local shipping charges. Ido for Reading and Writing is a workbook for writing practice and is therefore not available as a Kindle ebook.

In April 1891, two matters greatly excite the inhabitants of Edinburgh: the decennial Population Census and the Annual General Meeting of the Edinburgh Society for the Propagation of a Universal Language. The General Secretary, Mr Justice, is a militant champion of the highly popular language Volapk; but he is locked in a battle for with Dr Bosman, a shameless apologist for Esperanto. Mr Justice travels the east coast of Scotland in part conducting classes in the grammar and vocabulary of Volapk. En route, he recruits a secret ally an ill-behaved old gentleman who has promised to bring the majority over to the Volapk camp.

The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it within a history of imaginary language making from medieval times to the most contemporary projects in efforts to uncover this woman s bold involvement in an intellectual and creative endeavor that spans centuries.