Discuss anu
I'm alright with including jan Pije's lessons, but others may feel differently. jan Pije Lesson 12 --JPeton (talk) 19:48, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
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. JPeton (talk) 02:15, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
The community at large is hesitant to use it this way because of this uncertainty. [citation needed: Obviously true, but difficult to substantiate.]
- oh? that's news to me
- personally i'm not hesitant at all to use it, i just happen to need to use anu seme more often (like how monsi is rarely used but nobody's gonna hesitate to use it)
- also while i agree anu is underspecified, the specific usage as a disjunction is absolutely documented:
- (the article says pu but the example isn't pu so idk)
- lipu sona pona
- 12 days
- soweli Tesa's (calls it a conjunction, likely as in the grammar term not the logic term)
- Learn Toki Pona!
- unless i'm horribly misunderstanding what you're getting at ~.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. I shall edit. JPeton (talk) 11:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)