kalama musi pi jan Asuli (Ashley's Theme in toki pona)

[@emilyhelms-tippit4053]

you're right! Asuli / suli a is a pun that should not go unappreciated.

[@HiimIny]

this is likely the most jan misali video posible also esperanto replacing latin is just (cheff kiss*)

[@thatthinker]

the "mi ilo moku e jan sona mi" really is the top tier thing i needed tonight

[@Froggo9000]

I spooned my teacher

[@egon3705]

my know-person? food-tooled.

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

this person? jan Asuli.

[@janMawisa]

hotel? trivago.

[@BrightyLighty_]

"Esperanto is to toki pona as Latin is to English" is one of the best things I've ever heard and I can't express this enough

[@cedriko1662]

I only found out about half of the mass, but hey! the "Esperanto-latin" part was really funny to me. It's really funny how a song made in a language you're not particularly familiar with sounds, I find it extremely curious.

[@viklo925]

I love the fact that Esperanto is used as a spell

[@Solinaru]

A curse no less, lol

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

@@Solinaru technically it’s also poliespo, which’s very fitting for a curse.

[@janLilin]

Yay I've learned how to curse in Esperanto!

[@_perza]

Mi ankaux amas gxin

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

@@felipevasconcelos6736 bananthanapachurla his ass (horribly off from actual spelling but you get it)

[@lrgogo1517]

Can’t wait for the call-back to this video in six years when Misali has opened an alternate gaming account, plays a future WarioWare installment, and goes, _“oh hey, it’s Ashley! is her song going to be in this one?”_

[@philiphunt-bull5817]

Oh god, now I want this to happen.

[@Tesseract_King]

"ona li jan Asuli a! musi ni li jo e kalama musi pi jan Asuli anu seme?"

[@purpleisdebeste]

Don’t make jokes :)

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

@@purpleisdebeste seme

[@purpleisdebeste]

@@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa Sorry forgot most people don’t know what that means. In ternet circles I’m in that means “that’s going to happen”

[@Maldito011316]

As someone who learned all toki pona words and got stuck not knowing how to move forward in learning, this kind of thing showing the same line in 3 versions helps so much

[@BrianHaddad]

Having tried translating lyrics between languages before (English/Arabic/Spanish) I am thoroughly impressed at the lengths you went to in researching and crafting the best possible translation (even managing to slip in some fun puns and word-plays in order to try to preserve the fun feeling of the original). Very well done. I think song lyrics and poems are the hardest things to translate, right up there with jokes (since those often carry cultural considerations that are even more difficult to translate than just the words). Anyone expecting an artistic translation* like this to translate directly back into English without any changes simply doesn't understand how language works. *Or any translation for that matter!

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

It is sometimes possible to make a translation such that the most natural backtranslation would be the original text, but usually that’s a bad translation. Sometimes I read a book that was translated from English and the translation is so literal I can reverse-engineer the original English text, which’s the only way to know what it was supposed to mean.

[@macaronmoon]

I agree, and it seems like jan Misali really put a lot of thought and time into the translation!

[@Xnoob545]

I wonder how it'd sound in toki pona if translated literally

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

@@Xnoob545 extremely long

[@keiyakins]

The "Pantalonojn Grandegajn!" gag lives in my head rent free and sometimes I just randomly start giggling.

[@0hellow797]

Didn’t know there were other Ashley enjoyers out there. This may be the most niche piece of media ever created.

[@godminnette2]

I only know of Ashley because of Smash. I figured she was one of the most popular characters.

[@bananacat3109]

People said the same thing about dreams of our “conglang” community. jan Misali is just niche

[@nyon7209]

I didn't realize there were people who thought Ashley was niche. Then again, I guess Wario Ware characters in general are fairly niche in the US. I've heard that in Japan she's arguably more recognizable than Wario.

[@elh7149]

My vote for Jan Misali's most niche song is "GEE, jan misali, HOW COME bandcamp LETS YOU SELL *_TWO_* dreams of a generation"

[@marsbar3168]

The spell: Reversing the letters gives "a musi Wali(j)o li pona" which might translate to "warioware is good"

[@helveticabestfont12345]

this is very funny to me

[@MetaKnight68]

Ahhh, which as notedis a reference to the Japanese version doing a similar thing! (reversed it says "Made in Wario [the Japanese title of WarioWare] is number one!" jan Misali's cleverness strikes again

[@purpleisdebeste]

I believe it means “Wario games are good” so yeah

[@WhizzKid2012]

the j is needed

[@dr.delbertdoppler6281]

I appreciate the amount of effort you put into these songs! there's the three versions of each line, the explanations/extra info, and the fact that you base the cover on both the english and japanese versions while still taking into account ashley's personality/mannerisms *and* putting your own fun spin on it here and there. even down to making the channel icon and suggested video cards at the end each appear in time with the music on those three emphasized beats. it's an impressive amount of effort and detail! pali sina li pali mute li epiku a!

[@Addsomehappy]

I refuse to spoil myself a brewing masterpiece with such a powerful name as "Wario Faces Consequences for His Actions", your social media shall remain unfollowed.

[@technoeevee6969]

"If I had a nickel for every time I favorited a cover of a side character's theme song from warioware translated into toki pona, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice!"

[@SnoFitzroy]

bruh same

[@mibadada]

I have never heard of this character before but with this video you have made me love her

[@keiyakins]

That is a normal reaction to her theme, in any language. There's a reason she's a fan favorite.

[@Solinaru]

"Who do you think,I'm baby" Why does this speak to me so much?

[@peachybanjo]

I’ve tried translating several works into toki pona before (primarily songs, but I’ve attempted poetry as well), and I must say that the way you were able to make each line of this song both rhyme and match up with “Ashley’s Song’s” original syllable structure was brilliant. hats off to you; thanks for giving me a masterpiece to listen to for days on end.

[@WillBassman]

The spooky voice is on point and somehow fits the toki pona aesthetic pretty well 👌

[@genuineangusbeef8697]

I put "Wario Faces Consequences for His Actions" in the suggested fics channel of a fanfiction discord. The name alone is amazing

[@DominoPivot]

Remember kids, o awen pona and don't food-tool your know-person.

[@bananacat3109]

These translations are exciting because I can see how easily i can read toki pona, i use the discord almost every day but I don’t really speak i just read.

[@Trashley652]

It's me!

[@brad3nnn]

I have no clue what's happening but sure why not

[@hunterst.arnold6646]

More Toki Pona WarioWare music? Can't say no to that!

[@egon3705]

honestly can't wait for the inevitable "kalama musi pi jan Maku"

[@melody_florum]

I know nothing about toki pona nor warioware yet I paused on every slide

[@jonusmorffis639]

This may be the most niche thing I've ever seen on KZbin

[@cormorantcolors]

Just listened to this three times, genuinely love it

[@jan-kowina-kuki]

I see what you did there with the fantastic pun! Thanks for the laughs!

[@SnoFitzroy]

I love how intimidating "if not, then you're done" sounds in toki pona lol

[@egon3705]

only thing it's missing is the slight "may-or-may-not have originally intended to say moli" tone

[@blindknitter]

You are a frigging genius.

[@nycki93]

I don't know Toki Pona very well but with a dictionary open and the japanese lyrics for reference, I was able to work out the puzzle at 0:46. That was fun!

[@markusoliverasagtg9704]

I thought this was the rick roll lmao (jan Asuli = mr astley)

[@ateium2409]

Same

[@seigel2289]

I mean, sure. This is the quality content I'm subbed for

[@Tesseract_King]

tp: sina kepeken e toki Epelanto la, mi kalama musi suli. tan ni la, soweli mi li monsuta. en: the Esperanto bit made me laugh so hard I startled my dog

[@ethanmartin1719]

this has to be the most jan Misali thing I've ever seen

[@ianthewarriorgamer8180]

I am very new to the channel! The content is great so far. I will definitely consider subscribing now

[@n14c0]

AHH YES I WAS DREAMING OF THIS

[@Celia_Dawn]

If you get this on the radio, then Toki Pona might become a real language! :O

[@janNowa]

toki pona is a real language though. Also this song would never get radio play because a) it's an unlicensed cover and b) more importantly, it's incredibly niche

[@twiwatchesvocaloidstuff7159]

@@janNowa i don’t know for sure but it could be a reference to the new radio shows thing

[@janNowa]

@@twiwatchesvocaloidstuff7159 I thought so too at first but I honestly don't know

[@mironhunia300]

@@janNowa I think it is a reference to this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZK4qWqXn7alr9U&ab_channel=janMisali

[@drdca8263]

@@janNowa I believe this was a joke about the person who was commenting a bunch on the Ido episode, who was claiming it was illegitimate compared to Esperanto, and mentioned listening to radio shows in Esperanto.

[@mccookies3664]

“mi ilo moku e jan sona mi” is a wonderful line and a very good translation, but there’s no way of knowing that it doesn’t mean “i stabbed my teacher with a fork”

[@MayBeSomething]

Impressive. Well done.

[@tulseytowngirl3]

I really want jan Misali to do an English cover of the literal translations from this version

[@Keno-ul4fl]

As someone named Ashley i see this as a total win

[@BlindStarLily]

I think I like this better than the English version- I don’t know what it is, but hearing Asuli is nicer to me than Ashley for some reason

[@ping163]

I think it’s because Asuli is three syllables while Ashley is two, and in the song when saying her name it’s spread out across three notes, so while Asuli fits that perfectly, Ashley’s first syllable has to get stretched out across the first two notes, which sounds more awkward

[@BlindStarLily]

@@ping163 H- How dare you read my feelings so perfectly, stranger? That’s exactly it I think. Plus, Asuli is just more appealing to me than Ashley as a name

[@iantaakalla8180]

Also, it directly mirrors the Japanese version - the original version - which split “Ashley”/“ashurii” into three syllables, so it sound more like the way the song was intended to be sung.

[@playdoughmaster808]

“I utensil-ified my teacher”

[@Wecoc1]

I wasn't thinking about this Ashley, I got anti-rickrolled.

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

a ni li wawa kin a. uta monsuta li musi mute. of course the giant paragraphs are greatly appreciated /lh/gen

[@De1taF1yer72]

Yay, I understood like half of this!

[@zolia260]

i never knew i needed jan misali singing

[@bananacat3109]

see: dreams of our conglang community, kulupu jan tenpo, nimi ale lon toki pona

[@zolia260]

@@bananacat3109 ok

[@bananacat3109]

@@zolia260 i forgot conned by the lang

[@f1nch3z]

woah time to obsess over another jan misali translation 😍

[@montpunk]

i love this

[@SpadesNoir]

NIce! I gotta play more WarioWare games, I loved the first one as a kid.

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

0:52 she isn’t uninvested in the song especially here

[@58.jpegs-in-C.._]

Esperanto as latin... Just wow

[@squilliams7124]

epiku

[@bananacat3109]

lon. epiku mute a

[@asterixgallier8102]

@@bananacat3109 *epiku mute a nimi ante li lon monsi e nimi sijelo (modifier words are behind the main word)

[@bananacat3109]

Asterix Gallier i know, usually i do, I don’t know how i made that mistake

[@mariafe7050]

*reads description* i hate when that happens

[@jdharrison4316]

Why is this such a bop?

[@addamazeing]

I think you might find Apandah's video, "Fixing the Alphabet" interesting. It's a short video,

[@addamazeing]

If you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpS1l3emqdd3itE

[@sunbirth4795]

I love simlish covers

[@windowcreeperbird9669]

Holy cow I swore I've heard this song before.

[@lrgogo1517]

_reads the note at __1:05_ Me: That sounds rough…😐💧 jan Misali: _man,_ toki pona is so good. Me: -that was a compliment??

[@HBMmaster]

it makes sense if you know how toki pona works

[@tanishav.6066]

Hello! Please notice this because I have a really important question. I saw your videos on W & C! They were great! But do you think you could do one on Q? And why it always gets followed by a U? Why does it need the U to make the Kwa sound? If U is pronounced oo and w is wuh. Then, Why not use Qw? Or kw and remove Q altogether? I hope this question finds you well!

[@abocwsg2328]

I see you like toki pona a lot, and I agree, it's great, but it is very difficult to describe more complex things in it, however, a complex language wouldn't be great because it would be too much work to learn if you just wanted to casually talk to someone with simple concepts. This brings me to my idea, what if instead of just one simple language, there was one simple language, and another less simple language for describing more complicated things, kind of like an auxlang and an artlang meant to be used with each other, toki pona would be a great contender for the simple language. I was just wondering what you thought of this idea

[@אביב-ת7ל]

Your accent makes me suspect you aren't a native toki pona speaker

[@FishandChipper]

There are no Toki Pona native speakers

[@bananacat3109]

@@FishandChipper that’s the joke but there actually are people teaching it to their children apparently

[@KiyaNene]

@@bananacat3109 They still wouldn’t have the “natural” accent unless their parents have/mastered it.

[@cedriko1662]

It would also be a great pleasure if someone thought of translating Doraemon's intro

[@doorhanger9317]

you can translate "mi suli e sina" pretty directly in english as "I embiggen you", which is a translation of "mi suli e" you also missed in the first toki pona instructional video while also talking about how much you like those constructions in toki pona

[@goobs..]

very cool stuff

[@misterguyman9669]

Can you start doing analyses on natural languages like English/French/Japanese or a comparison video on different languages.

[@LydiaMoMydia]

has megalapolian been abandoned or will you still work on It just very slowly?

[@Glasshouse828]

Could you do a conlang video on Kobaïan?

[@NitroIndigo]

Today I learned that WarioWare: Get It Together exists.

[@KiyaNene]

I’m so sorry, but whenever I listen to this song with this singer, I just can’t get Tina from Bob’s Burgers off my head

[@toriikyuu]

mi sona e toki pona lon tenpo ni la mi ken olin e kalama musi ale pi jan Misali a!

[@jkid1134]

I wonder if Ashley is why I don't care if I seem powerful

[@Lilly-Gorney]

awesome

[@earldridgejazzedpineda9514]

What happened to Conlang Critic Episode 38: Blissymbolics?

[@bananacat3109]

part of the reason conlang critic is on hiatus is people arguing about grammatical gender. also when he does polls for the next video I don't think conlang critic episodes win

[@birchtree6975]

Plzzz make a toki pona version of Mike's song from warioware ds it's my favourite warioware song ever

[@lombre9149]

I enjoy

[@leifsqualor9030]

Hi I'm newer to conlanging, watched your videos for some time and was wondering if I could present a conlang that I would like to use in a book I am endeavoring to write, not only for unbiased feedback but because I generally appreciate what you have to say (your Homestuck video-essay hit it on the head, though I was terrified to click at first haha). In the spirit of choice begging, I refuse to go to Reddit with this, so until I find someone in my day to day with an interest in conlanging I worry I will have to make a garbage fire with no way to see what's wrong with it until I've published it in a book... Let me know!

[@VCheesey]

I didn't even realize the original English lyric was "I'm a slave to my spellbook" I thought it was "I must flip through my spellbook." Frankly, my version is better. (As is yours and the Japanese version).

[@MrMasterGamer0]

I want more math videos

[@mamau2003]

tenpo suno ni mi wile kepeken sina e sitelen en open alasa kama sona toki pona, en tenpo ni sina pana ni sitelen. toki kepeken kama pona. en sitelen pona! ken tenpo kama la olin kute sina kalama musi. en en ni li mi nampa wan alasa sitelen toki poni taso wile la ona li musi. :D

[@misterguyman9669]

Can you do an analysis on the french language? I find it interesting how similar it is to English. And maybe do a video on gender and language

[@jambie]

are you going to put this on Spotify?

[@jambie]

I'd put it on my playlists to listen to honestly and there isn't any good version of ashley's theme on spotify rn that i could find so that would be cool

[@HBMmaster]

open.spotify.com/album/050dkAroumxXnaqGRKrbw4

[@chefcandy4035]

I've been looking up the Japanese version for awhile now, and I can't find a translation for "nuwa buna nuu, jio ira un, io di emu" (0:37-0:44). Does anyone know what it translates to?

[@HBMmaster]

the super mario wiki is your friend

[@purpleisdebeste]

The idea is that it's something backwards (am us iw al i ol i p on a) but I can't tell exactly what combinations of letters are right. At the very least probably "a musi" at the start which means "oh fun" unless I have something wrong Edit: never mind the first part is ma suwi which means cute place or something similar. Almost like a rhythym paradise of some sort. A paradise made in heaven. Edit 2: okay so I think it's meant to be "ma suwi la oli pona" which means "heaven is good games"! It could mean lots of other things though.

[@HBMmaster]

@@purpleisdebeste you had it right the first time, you're supposed to reverse the letters not the syllables

[@chefcandy4035]

@@HBMmaster Thank you! I was searching for a good 30-40 minutes, but I only looked up a mix of translations and translators lol

[@egon3705]

@@purpleisdebeste it's "a musi Walio li pona" which roughly translates to "the wario franchise is good"

[@danielhaugan4603]

Nice

[@mimeco2]

nice

[@DjOS3141]

good

[@drdca8263]

Is there any official version of the song in any language other than Japanese or English? I couldn’t find any.

[@HBMmaster]

not to my knowledge, no

[@drdca8263]

@@HBMmaster Thanks!

[@ikbintom]

For some reason I mishear your L as a W sometimes 😀

[@8thorpe]

what did she have with king dedede :(

[@keytron1391]

‿ !

[@nobodyofimprotance7615]

With how altered many of the lines are, I think this might be an example of Toki Pona's limits for things like creativity.

[@BrianHaddad]

Copying/pasting from another response to a similar comment: Have you ever read lyrics to a song that have been translated into another language without significant changes to nearly all of the lines? Trying to capture a similar meaning in a language with extremely different information densities (I think they sometimes refer to this as entropy in information theory), sounds, and cadences all while trying to maybe make it rhyme or at least sound rhythmically similar... that's a really tall order. I have studied a few languages and seen many songs and poems that have been translated. I think the translation work that jan Misali has done here only proves that toki pona is a legitimate language with as many creative possibilities as any other language out there.

[@nobodyofimprotance7615]

@@BrianHaddad Ok, I'll put it this way: it sounds like Newspeak. It doesn't seem there's any way for Toki Pona to communicate complex ideas.

[@BrianHaddad]

@@nobodyofimprotance7615 That's a valid concern, but I think the language's ability to communicate complex ideas is similar to other languages. You don't always get to communicate a complex idea very well, no matter the language. The degree of success varies from speaker to speaker.

[@tfan2222]

@@nobodyofimprotance7615 As Brian said, it varies from speaker to speaker, but you can even explain the theory of general relativity with it, the bigger question is if you can translate that into another language.

[@keiyakins]

@@nobodyofimprotance7615 ... While sticking to the rhythmic structure and to some extent rhyming scheme of a song in another language. That's a pretty huge limitation.

[@Sup_ERS_Tar]

Because many of the lines have been changed, I believe this is an example of Toki Pona's creative limitations.

[@BrianHaddad]

Have you ever read lyrics to a song that have been translated into another language without significant changes to nearly all of the lines? Trying to capture a similar meaning in a language with extremely different information densities (I think they sometimes refer to this as entropy in information theory), sounds, and cadences all while trying to maybe make it rhyme or at least sound rhythmically similar... that's a really tall order. I have studied a few languages and seen many songs and poems that have been translated. I think the translation work that jan Misali has done here only proves that toki pona is a legitimate language with as many creative possibilities as any other language out there.

[@zoey-oey-oeyd4020]

@@patientraccoon toki pona can’t communicate complex ideas in a limited number of syllable??? truly an affront to the “conglang” community

[@chrisrj9871]

DK rap, next.

[@safeforwork8546]

Not first in the slightest but i am incapable of being funny so ill just pretend i am so i have a reason to live.

[@vladimirlenin843]

Why

[@imacds]

Maybe I am getting too fluent in toki pona but "sina sona e jan ni: jan Asuli" slaps way too hard.

[@imacds]

This is my new favorite jan Misali song, seriously good job with it. The part that has me coming back is: "...li jo ala e jan pona mute/sina wile ala wile jan pona mi/ala la sina pini" Threatening someone to be your friend is probably the most naturally toki pona sentence that has ever been written, and quite possibly ever will be. This entire conlang was created specifically so such words could be uttered and understood in it, and it has succeeded in that task.

[@theplanetmercury7487]

what's the spell?

[@drdca8263]

Makes pants big I think?

[@neonskylite2242]

ANOPILOILAWISUMA reversed can spell "a musi Walio li pona" or an exclamation of "warioware games are good"

[@egon3705]

a no pi lo i la wi su ma backwards is "a musi walio li pona" meaning "wario games are good" pantalonojn grandegajn just means big pants

[@falconshadow4856]

next toki pona lesson when

[@genybr]

well... I can try to (awfuly) translate my textbook "lipiwa" to engish if you want, or you can use translation from photos, if you lurk it up. My major goal was to force you think with toki pona, not drill it. Free version going up to dictionary excludely, reviews welcome.