I call him Steve online and I go by Larry.
I’ve had this discussion before. Names are not translated. Adam is a Hebrew name meaning ‘man’ but if your Hebrew friend comes to an english-speaking country, you don’t say this is my friend Man. If your name is Bob and you go to Japan, they might call you バブ but that would still be calling you Bob, just with an accent. If you then started saying you were Bahboo as an imitation of their accent, you’re not translating to be better understood. You’re just mocking them. You don’t have a Toki Pona accent, so you are imagining a foreigner with an accent and then mocking them, which is less offensive than mocking a real person, but still a weird thing to do.
Sewe, lawi
I’d probably say “siwe” from the pronunciation or sitiwe, or tiwe…
Agree, siwe is probably closer.
You speak toki pona or you looked it up?
mi sona e toki pona, taso tenpo mute la mi toki ala e ni.
i know it, but haven’t spoken it for a long time.
a a a ni li pilin pona mute tawa mi
That’s crazy. I was thinking with such a relatively small community nobody would actually speak it, but I guess of all communities Lemmy would have somebody who does.
