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"{{tok|en}}" divided between modifiers = and

{{Indent|1={{tok|jan pona en suli}} = good and tall person}}

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There was no clear way to divide between head nouns. "en" needed to

be repeated to divide between multiple main nouns, which was clumsy

at times

{{Indent|1={{tok|en kon lete en suno}} = the north wind and the sun}}

(because "kon lete en suno" would have meant "cold and sunny air")

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===Modern usage===

{{needs work|post-2002 usage was not completely the same as current usage, as it was not limited to subjects. IIRC {{tp|jan Pije}}'s course continued to teach {{tp|en}} in prepositional phrases and in {{tp|pi}} phrases until the course was deprecated, well after {{tp|pu}} was published. So the "historical usage" and "modern usage" sections should perhaps be renamed or merged.|section}}

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A reform proposed in October 2002 restricted {{tp|en}} to dividing ~~between~~ ~~the subjects of a sentence~~ and no longer dividing modifiers.<ref name="forums2002" /> This reform was accepted unanimously by the online community by 1 November 2002 and became standard usage thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=17&p=220|title=Poll results for tokipona|website=Toki Pona Forums|author=tokipona@yahoogroups.com|date=2002-11-01|access-date=2023-10-10}}</ref>

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A reform proposed in October 2002 restricted {{tp|en}} to dividing head nouns and no longer dividing modifiers.<ref name="forums2002" /> This reform was accepted unanimously by the online community by 1 November 2002 and became standard usage thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=17&p=220|title=Poll results for tokipona|website=Toki Pona Forums|author=tokipona@yahoogroups.com|date=2002-11-01|access-date=2023-10-10}}</ref>