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== Disjunction ==
This is a tricky one: jan Kala in particular uses "anu" even to break sentences like "taso", so maybe he should be left out? I don't think it's fair at all to say that whether or not it is possible to use "anu" as a way of forming disjunctions is controversial per se: rather, the uncertainty about how it should be done has meant that it's hardly done at all (I confirmed this by trawling through utala pona winners for examples: many never use it, and the vast majority of the uses, including those who exclusively use it this way, are "anu seme" forms). I think (as a slight reformist soap box) that we actually *do* know how to use "anu" to form disjunctions, and that there are enough examples of its being used to be worth documenting here. [[User:JPeton|JPeton]] ([[User talk:JPeton|talk]]) 02:15, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
:<blockquote>The community at large is hesitant to use it this way because of this uncertainty. [citation needed: <u>Obviously true</u>, but difficult to substantiate.]</blockquote>
:oh? that's news to me
:personally i'm not hesitant at all to use it, i just happen to need to use {{tp|anu seme}} more often (like how {{tp|monsi}} is rarely used but nobody's gonna hesitate to use it)
:also while i agree {{tp|anu}} is underspecified, the specific usage as a disjunction is absolutely documented:
:* (the article says {{tok|pu}} but the example isn't {{tok|pu}} so idk)
:* [https://lipu-sona.pona.la/7.html {{tp|lipu sona pona}}]
:* [https://youtu.be/tYZxkQc27Xw?t=108 12 days]
:* [https://sowelitesa.kittycat.homes/lipu-sona/12 {{tok|soweli Tesa}}'s] (calls it a conjunction, likely as in the grammar term not the logic term)
:* [https://mun.la/sona/bits#anu Learn Toki Pona!]
:unless i'm horribly misunderstanding what you're getting at ~[[User:.hecko|.hecko]] ([[User talk:.hecko|talk]]) 10:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
::No, you're right. I'm convinced. There's been a fair amount of back and forth on this page about whether or not it's permitted to use [[anu]] this way, but it seems as if that's settled down by now. We should edit. [[User:JPeton|JPeton]] ([[User talk:JPeton|talk]]) 11:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
== Sentence initial anu ==
Noting for the future: lots of people use [[anu]] at the beginning of a sentence ''without'' [[la]]. That should be documented under experimental usage. [[User:JPeton|JPeton]] ([[User talk:JPeton|talk]]) 12:06, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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