today i learned about sitelen telo, and since i wanted to test it out i came back to this omake! this time i translated the top bits too, so it's entirely in toki pona!
idk how widely used sitelen telo is, but it's a gorgeous writing system. also, there may be mistakes. i could have misunderstood the documentation and used it wrong, or there could be errors with the words... i just changed the font of my sitelen Lasina version and worked from there so it should be fine i think, but by virtue of not really being able to read it myself there's always the chance i've missed something lol
added a cut so i can just talk a little on my feelings of sitelen telo
like i said, it's very beautiful and my eyes pilin pona a looking at it! i also love the use of radicals and the logic to the appearance of the glyphs, similar to sitelen pona. like... nimi pona looking like a little smiley face... it's so cute... AND it makes sense...
taso... one gripe i have with it! for being a writing system based on japanese, i would expect it to have support for vertical typesetting, yet sadly it doesn't :< it looks wonderful as is, i just would love to see this as a feature! also, the creator does say it can be written vertically (when handwritten) but that it is left-right, and the only reason for that is they are right handed and don't want ink on their hand. lol, i find that a little nasa. a perfectly fine reason to write it that way, but i don't get the point of telling others it should be written that way ._. but that's just a small thing
yeh, hope this is interesting to someone!
i physically cannot be normal so i translated the one omake with kobeni's sister to toki pona
click read more for a sitelen pona version, english translation, and translator's notes!
i mostly wanted to test typesetting sitelen pona! i think this is my first time doing this? i've used sitelen pona a little bit on a previous comic translation, but only for a couple things since it was so hard to format in csp. gimp makes it so easy!
translation:
[today these sweet sisters are by the water!]
sister: hey, hey, i want to eat. we should eat at the restaurant (food building)
kobeni: we can't. that place costs a lot of money. but everything's fine! i brought riceballs (see TN) ah! Denji and Power! they're bad-powerful. but they can (might) have money! we'll all eat. those two will pay!
sister: ah! is that okay?!
denji: ah? food? i've been killing and eating the fish!
sister: ah...
power: uh... did you steal the rice from me? give me it.
kobeni: ah?!
(weirdness and lies defeated them!)
...end
translator's notes:
first i just want to mention the riceballs thing. i translated this quite unspecifically in toki pona. i translated it as "pan sike" / "circular grain". pan most commonly means bread or rice, so there's lots of foods she potentially brought along!
i'm a lone "o" user until the end of time o7
uh. bad-powerful. as in, powerful in a bad way!
i made very small changes to the dialogue in the sitelen pona version. i can't be bothered telling you so why don't you learn toki pona and sitelen pona already and see for yourself? oops that sounded aggressive
it's 5am i hope there are no mistakes
time to talk about names! woohoo! first we have Denji as jan Tensi which featured in my last translation, but i hadn't come up with his sitelen pona yet! if you're unfamiliar, which you probably are, in sitelen pona we write our names as a combination of existing glyphs inside a cartouche. this is a really fun way to add some personality to your name and really make it your own! (for instance, my name features the glyph for sleep, because i'm a sleepy motherfucker) for Tensi i used tenpo, soweli and insa. tenpo means time. it has no specific relation to denji but i thought it was kinda nice. soweli means animal, and insa means inside. are you catching on yet? these two glyphs are separated from tenpo, and together say something like "inner animal", isn't that fun?
separating this point so it doesn't look like i'm blabbing on too long. i'm quite proud of Power's name, because it's... ridiculous. naturally in this universe, she named herself after the toki pona word for power, wawa. to write this name you could of course just put the word wawa in a cartouche (with two dots to indicate you pronounce the whole word) but that's not powerful enough! so her name is written with TWO, count em TWO wawa glyphs! (with one dot each to indicate you pronounce the first syllable) wawa mute a!
by the way, why is kobeni so devious in this? did she get possessed by the theft devil? :/
alright imma go pass out now
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Makima sketch at the math lesson. This thing is probably better than whole my other arts
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Some Makima stuff. Love this crazy devil with whole my dark heart
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Denji wearing his childhood clothes oh I’m going to be sick to my stomach
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