toki open

There is a family of programming languages that are called “Trivial Brainf*ck Substitutions” (TBFS for short). They basically take the 8 characters used in Brainf*ck and represent them using other strings of characters. This is (somewhat) the same idea behind sitelen pona and sitelen kuwi. I would even guess that it’s the same idea behind sitelen sitelen, but I don’t know enough yet about sitelen sitelen to make that conclusion.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Trivial_brainfuck_substitution

TTPS

As the title says, this is my attempt at a “trivial toki pona substitution” (TTPS). Inspired from the following:

This is an English-styled TTPS that I created in 1 hour, I like to call it “sitelen ike”:

The following is the introduction for the text about the Buddha in tokipona.org:

toki open tan jan pi ante toki

lipu lili ni li lipu nanpa wan tan lipu suli Sitata · wile kulupu la mi kama pana e lipu nanpa tu · lipu tu taso li lon · o toki e pilin sina e wile sina · toki kulupu la mi ken sona e wile jan ·

lipu ni li kama tan kon Eman Ese · taso ni li jan seme? tenpo pini la ona li jan lipu suli · ona li kama tan ma Tosi suli · lipu mute la ona li wile pana e sitelen pi alasa sona · kon jan pi lipu ona li alasa e lon e sona e nasin sewi · kon Ese la nasin mute li ken sewi · nasin wan li nasin taso ala ·

jan pi toki pona li lukin e lipu ni la ona o awen sona e ni · lipu ni li pana ala e sona lon pi nasin Puta, li pana ala e nasin sewi pi kon Ese · taso la ona li pana e sitelen wile pi kon Ese : sitelen la jan li ken alasa e lon e sewi kepeken nasin pi ona taso · jan ale o kama sona e lon ona · ken la lon ona li lon pi jan ante ala · taso ni li ike ala · sina wile kama sona lili e nasin Puta lon la mi pana e sitelen lili lon pini lipu · ni la jan li sona pona e ante pi nasin Puta e ante pi nasin Sitata e sitelen pi kon Ese ·

lipu Sitata li sitelen lon tenpo pi jan pini Puta · kon Ese li kepeken nimi mute li pana e ma mute tan tenpo pini pi jan Puta, tan lipu pi nasin Puta · jan li sona pona ala e nimi ni la sona lipu li ken nasa · ni la mi pana kin lon pini lipu e nimi ale ni pi toki ante · sina wile kama sona e kon e tan la o lukin · taso o sona kin e ni : mi ante e toki mama pi lipu Sitata la nimi li ken ante · ken la nimi pi toki Inli li kama ante kepeken nimi pi toki pona · ken la nimi tan tenpo pi jan Puta li kama weka, li kama nimi ante kepeken toki pona · mi ante e nimi la mi wile e ni : jan ale li ken sona pona kepeken toki pona ·

kulupu o lukin pona, o musi pona a!

— jan Kala

You can read more here:

https://tokipona.org/sitata/

Here is the same text, in sitelen ike:

speak open from person ; difference speak

paper small this , paper number one from paper big Sitata · necessity group - me come emit : paper number two · paper two only , exist · do speak : emotion you : necessity you · speak group - me can learn : necessity person ·

paper this , come from air Eman Ese · only this , person what? time end - that , person paper big · that , come from land Tosi big · paper many - that , necessity emit : image ; hunt learn · air person ; paper that , hunt : exist : learn : way hot · air Ese - way many , can hot · way one , way only not ·

person ; speak good , look : paper this - that do stop learn : this · paper this , emit not : learn exist ; way Puta , emit not : way hot ; air Ese · only - that , emit : image necessity ; air Ese : image - person , can hunt : exist : hot use way ; that only · person all do come learn : exist that · can - exist that , exist ; person difference not · only this , bad not · you necessity come learn small : way Puta exist - me emit : image small exist end paper · this - person , learn good : difference ; way Puta : difference ; way Sitata : image ; air Ese ·

paper Sitata , image exist time ; person end Puta · air Ese , use word many , emit : land many from time end ; person Puta from paper ; way Puta · person , learn good not : word this - learn paper , can weird · this - me emit also exist end paper : word all this ; speak difference · you necessity come learn : air : from - do look · only do learn also : ni : me difference : speak parent ; paper Sitata - word , can difference · can - word ; speak Inli , come difference use word ; speak good · can - word from time ; person Puta , come empty , come word difference use speak good · me difference : word - me necessity : this : person all , can learn good use speak good ·

group do look good, do game good ha!

— person Kala

FAQ

• Why did you call it sitelen ike?
  • This script goes against the very nasin behind toki pona (IMO). So, it is “ike.”
• Why did you do this?
  • I was recently made aware of sitelen kuwi and sitelen telo. Though I really disagree with the philosphy behind sitelen telo, I really like sitelen kuwi! This really reminded me of TBFS so I tried doing the same for toki pona and ended up with that piece of text up there.

https://clockwise3411.github.io/lipu-sona-pi-sitelen-Kuwi/

https://sona.pona.la/wiki/sitelen_telo

I would like to see some TTPS made for other natural languages. To me, sitelen ike is somewhat readable.