User:FlipBrooke/Persistent Headnouns
Persistent Headnouns are a style of speaking created by jan Sowi[citation needed] on April 2024. It makes all proper nouns have headnouns, with a few exceptions. Persistent Headnouns were created to reduce ambiguity when speaking.
Usage
Any time a proper noun is said, that proper noun must have a relevant headnoun. If the headnoun is not known, ijo can be used. Any words that are part of the proper noun must then have capital first letters. If a name has a dedicated sitelen pona glyph, that glyph may be used.
Examples:
toki [toki-pona] li pona tawa mi.Toki Pona is good to me.
toki Toki Pona li pona tawa mi.
o lukin e lipu [lipu tenpo] sinRead the new Lipu Tenpo.
o lukin e lipu Lipu Tenpo sin.
Exceptions
Names of people
If a person does not use a headnoun, does not have capitalization in their name, or does not want their name written like this, no not use persistent headnouns on their name. If the name is the name of a character or pet, their owner is the person who decides how to write their name.