I made a mapping from all the possible toki pona syllables into musical chords. The bottom note of each chord is based on the starting consonant (or lack thereof) of the syllable, and the kinds of intervals between notes in the chord are based on the vowel and ending nasal, if there is one. The exact qualities of the intervals are adjusted depending on the bottom note to dial down some of the wildest chromaticism, but... there's still some wild chromaticism in here
The rhythm and the order of the words is taken from the rap sections of the tokirap by jan Misali, also known as nimi ale lon toki pona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_w0-VUMh2o
I was inspired to make this mapping from syllables to chords by a book: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. They're gonna make a movie of it in like less than a year. One of the characters speaks using musical chords, and I wanted to hear some version of what that might sound like. Maybe even test myself to see if I could understand someone speaking in these chords eventually. But I'm getting ahead of myself
OC by: @[email protected]
I made myself a wallpaper to force myself to study toki pona. Maybe someone else will like it too.
This resource pack is based on jan Poman's. I can't find the original link anymore, but the name was written in the resource pack itself. When I found it, it was already outdated, so I've been adding all the new lines, as well as lines from a few fabric mods. I've finally caught up with the official translation, so I'm ready to share it online.
It can be downloaded here: https://github.com/janLolen/musi-Manka/releases/
You can also clone this repository to get all the edits as soon as I commit them. I've included a batch file that copies the files to the default Windows resource pack folder.
It uses UCSUR, but cartouches aren't supported, so you need to use square brackets instead, for now at least.
Since it requires no additional effort, other than making a low resolution font, a sitelen telo version is also available.
Most of the work was done by jan Poman and by the official translators. jan Poman's resource pack is outdated so I've been converting the new lines and reverting some name changes (monsuta pakala instead of monsuta Creeper) caused by a rule that requires all translations to keep the trademarked names unchanged. Most mods' translations are original.
I've also started to diverge from both, as there are some translations I don't agree with. So monsuta pakala, if it's not in a noun phrase with other pis, becomes monsuta pi pakala leko, color names are now based on their in-game recipes, and effect names (but not potion names) are more descriptive. There are also some stylistic choices, such as names (Mojang, Realms, Lena Raine) not being tokiponized.
There are still some inconsistencies. Some are carried over from the previous translations, and some are new. But most of the lines you'll encounter in survival mode are correct.
The following mods are completely translated:
The following mods are partially translated:
Also, some lines in the official translation were actually in Dutch for some reason. I translated them into toki pona.
Pona! I have a doubt. the word for nature (plants+animals+humans+rocks) could be ale?
https://nimi.li/aleOpen linkView original on scribe.disroot.org
Posting this here semi-exclusively (after putting it out on Soundcloud and shown to a few friends), "wide" release will be after video's done (that's been put on hold 4 months ago).
https://soundcloud.com/dschorsaanjo/hpbdOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldNot the best, said some things I wouldn't, broke grammar, but it's something.
toki pona with inflections
@[email protected] @[email protected] I think both of y'all might enjoy this discussion:
https://toki.social/@yuvalne/111409597756551937
tomo Uso la jan li lon li anpa tawa sewi ona. tomo pakala Uso la jan li moli kan tomo ona. jan ante li lon li tawa telo poka pi ma Uso. taso sewi pi tenpo majuna li pini lape li kama sewi kin.
sitelen musi: https://musescore.com/user/50327411/scores/12773602
