User:FlipBrooke/Persistent Headnouns

Persistent Headnouns is a style of speaking of an unknown origin^{[citation needed]}This claim needs references to reliable sources.. It makes all proper nouns have headnouns, with a few exceptions. Persistent Headnouns were created to reduce ambiguity when speaking while keeping the majority of proper nouns the same.

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] sin

Read 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.

Requests for names of works

If someone owns a work and asks you not to refer to it with a persistent headnoun, do not.