Toki Pona on stau.space

Trivial toki pona Substitutions

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:23:50 -0400

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.

Nasin Toki

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:29:43 -0400

toki a

This is my nasin for writing toki pona. My nasin includes things meant for better typesetting, improved readability of text, and preserving the generally artistic nature of toki pona whether that is in sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina.

ala la ........ > Related things should go together.
wan la ........ Use of "la", "ni" and indenting.
tu la ......... Vertical alignment.
tu wan la ..... Names in toki pona.
tu wan.wan la . Being respectful and beauty in names.
tu tu la ...... Use of multiple "pi" in a single sentence.

ala la

Most of the readability that I talk about boils down to:

nasin toki

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:27:45 -0400

toki a

This is my nasin for writing toki-pona. My nasin includes things meant for better typesetting, improved readability of text, and preserving the generally artistic nature of toki-pona whether that is in sitelen-pona or sitilen Lasina.

ala la

Most of the readability that I talk about boils down to “put stuff that’s similar together”. When dealing with multiple subjects, several headnouns or verbs, your text might get cluttered and you might end up with a huge paragraph of text. This can be readable, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Specially in sitelen-pona where horizontal and vertical spaces and symmetry are significant to the piece of text you are writing about.

Mathematics in toki pona

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about toki pi (nasin nanpa).

toki pi kulupu pini

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 07:50:59 -0400

The Cult of Done is a manifesto written by Bre Pettis with Kio Stark in August of 2016.

English manifesto

Translations

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:20:28 -0400

Here are several excerpts from miscellaneous texts that I have translated into toki pona.

lipu lon luka

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:19:04 -0400

toki open

Translation of The Enchiridion by Epictetus into toki pona. Original translation taken from: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.1b.txt If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me through any of my contacts, here.

enchiridion, noun en·chi·rid·i·on [ˌen-ˌkī-ˈri-dē-ən]

Plural: enchiridia [ˌen-ˌkī-ˈri-dē-ə]
Meaning: handbook, manual

AOC day 1

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:55:24 -0400

wan wan.
zz pana pi (toki tawa lipu) li nasin lipu tu e wan.
zz pana pi (toki tawa lipu) li suli.
zz poka li sin pana ala li nanpa sewi e luka.
zz ale li sin pana.

 ⍉ pana
⟨ ⟨ 4 3 5 3 9 3 ⟩ ⟨ 3 4 2 1 3 3 ⟩ ⟩
 ∧˘⍉ pana
⟨ ⟨ 3 3 3 4 5 9 ⟩ ⟨ 1 2 3 3 3 4 ⟩ ⟩
 |-˝∧˘⍉ pana
⟨ 2 1 0 0 1 5 ⟩
 +´|-˝∧˘⍉ pana
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AOC day 2

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Mathematics in toki pona

sona@stau.space (Sona Tau Estrada Rivera) — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0400

nasin nanpa lon toki-pona

The language toki pona (toki-pona) lacks a lot of common mathematical definitions. Although this is on purpose, I do enjoy talking about mathematics. In a language where kindness and compassion is so prevalent I see no reason why to avoid talking about something I feel so passionate about. Then, here is my documentation for how to speak about common mathematical terms.

Toki Pona on stau.space

Trivial toki pona Substitutions

toki open

Nasin Toki

toki a

Table of contents

ala la

nasin toki

toki a

ala la

Mathematics in toki pona

FAQ

toki pi kulupu pini

Translations

lipu lon luka

toki open

AOC day 1

AOC day 2

Mathematics in toki pona