kalama musi pi jan Peni (Penny's Song in toki pona)

a toki pona translation of Penny's Song from WarioWare: Get It Together!, featuring Jules / shysterish
/ hbmmaster
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/ hbmmaster
/ janmisali

[@HBMmaster]

here's some stems: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bi4rANgR2T0OyYP1lg9f9Uz23LjxrAHt?usp=sharing (if you do anything with this, let me know about it! it was really cool how much stuff people made with kulupu jan tenpo.)

[@kjl3080]

As a shitposter. Thank you so much for providing the steps, from the bottom of my heart.

[@paper2222]

i guess i did something cool with it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHaonpp3pt-Shq8

[@willg1439]

This is quite possibly the most jan Misali thing to ever exist

[@hiimemily]

In that it's incredibly good? Yeah, I agree.

[@cyberneticsquid]

@@hiimemily hi you're emily

[@hiimemily]

@@cyberneticsquid huge if true

[@BoogsNStuff]

i like that a few days after this, the most jan Misali album to ever be called jan Misali came out, being the most jan Misali piece of media to ever exist by virtue

[@realbland]

@@hiimemily i have reason to believe it is

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

I can't believe someone made a Toki Pona version of this song before someone made an Italian version of this song.

[@crashandsideburns]

Italian was always the inferior conlang.

[@jannuarytrash]

italiano or whatever it is? show me the bibliography

[@jacobrzeszewski6527]

Italian is a conlang based on Latin.

[@rhebucks_zh]

@@jacobrzeszewski6527 italian is a natlang

[@xano2921]

@@rhebucks_zh it's kinda a conlang, only since 80 years ago it has become a natlang

[@tissuepaper9962]

In toki pona, every phrase has to rely on implied or situational meaning, just because of how restricted the lexicon is. The space for double meanings and other word play should be quite large, and the barrier to entry low. Perfect.

[@janNowa]

I remember an outline for a style of poem in toki pona where you repeat sentences that contain the same content words but have their meanings change significantly based on their order and where the grammatical particles are. It was pretty cool but I doubt I could find it again

[@tissuepaper9962]

@@janNowa it's like that "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." sentence but it's the whole language.

[@lucasloh5726]

imo toki pona should not be a first language, you do need the rigor and specificity from english but if you don’t need to describe something specific toki pona works great

[@janNowa]

@@lucasloh5726 There actually is a guy whose kids are native toki pona speakers, they speak both English and toki pona at home.

[@imacds]

@@tissuepaper9962 lili lili li lili lili

[@stravensongorglyforgly3427]

Not only is this a great version of the song, I gotta say: Had no idea who Penny was until this, but I can safely say she's my favorite character now too.

[@orsonzedd]

You my friend need some Wario in your life

[@stravensongorglyforgly3427]

@@orsonzedd Agreed, I gotta get on top of that. 😆

[@broccoliflorette1970]

@@orsonzedd o jan Wawijo a!

[@twilightjoltik3151]

I feel like this is the kind of thing Penny herself might do- take the song she wrote and translate it into a fun conlang

[@janLilin]

When can we get a Wario game where she straight up speaks TP tho?

[@jangamecuber]

@@janLilin or maybe an easter egg where her blueprints are labeled in sitelen pona

[@heynyquildriver]

now we just need jerma to have a life-ending voice crack to this version, too!

[@Vonias]

+2

[@hunterst.arnold6646]

I can't believe this exists. Fell in love with this song as soon as I heard it in-game for the first time. Seeing a Toki Pona cover of it us SO COOL!

[@Veilure]

Jan Misali proves once again that a non-regular polyhedron of an interests Venn diagram can go big on youtube. Nice work!

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

Tatixohitlamez aprei verr balod hafilxloved ny!

[@christian5256]

Apparently there's a strangely high number of similar polyhedrons around here haha

[@purpleisdebeste]

This one is “Toki Pona” “Music” and “Wario Faces Consequences for His Actions”

[@LichenJuice]

@@purpleisdebeste eyyyy aurora pfp nice

[@sosotik]

jules literally has the best voice ive ever heard

[@julester]

starts bawling my eyes out i live for comments like this thank you

[@the-letter_s]

i had no idea what this video was when i clicked on it, was extremely confused, then continued being extremely confused when i realized the only place i recognized the tune from was when Jerma absolutely fucking choked and died when attempting to sing it. thank you.

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

after listening to a custom remix version of this for many hours, I still do not know who Penny is, but I love her

[@HBMmaster]

I'd describe her as a bundle of joyous positivity

[@jantemili]

@@HBMmaster one might say she's a.. poki pona

[@biglexica7339]

@@jantemili get out

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

@@jantemili 👀 a a lon la ken la ale li ken “”poki pona”” lon tenpo, anu seme? seme pona li ken ala poki pona? ale pona la pona li lon.

[@iantaakalla8180]

To be serious, she is the daughter of Dr. Crygor and is therefore an inventor. She is very skilled in multiple disciplines like automobiles and potions and even jetpacks, but sucks at either singing or composing yet still wishes to be a pop star.

[@CaravanNoobs]

This is the kind of content that can only be created by someone with very specific hyperfocuses.

[@bananacat3109]

i like how the lyrics are explained like in kulupu jan tenpo, it’s kinda needed

[@rohinkartik-narayan7535]

I'm only familiar with the WarioWare songs through Smash Bros., but man how have I never heard Penny's theme?! Now I kinda wanna try my hand at a translation of Ashley's Song

[@Sandromatic]

probably because its from the newest warioware and there's not been a smash bros that's come out since then.

[@theplanetmercury7487]

today's your day

[@janamohr448]

Seeing the explanations for these translations is great, it can honestly remind me of trying to find wordings for poetry. This is a great video

[@nzubechukwu]

I cannot put into words how much of a masterpiece this is.

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

"pona"

[@jangamecuber]

epiku mute mute a!

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

@@jangamecuber Zehued doreg pudxhiez amry.

[@keiyakins]

You went with the sitelen pona title in the thumbnail entirely because you realized how satisfyingly you could write Peni, didn't you?

[@mskiptr]

jan mute o, sina sona ale e sitelen ↑ la sina li sama pi mi pini. o lukin e ni: sitelen ↑ li nimi epiku lon sitelen pona.

[@DementedDuskull]

@@mskiptr "Many people, if you don't know the up arrow symbol, then you're the _same of finished-me._ (?) Look at this: The up arrow symbol is the word for 'epiku' in toki pona hieroglyphs." Thank you for the explanation and the translation exercise, I was very confused about the up arrow 'til I saw this. epiku a! pali pona a!

[@ameliajohnson1726]

I’ve been rewatching this repeatedly since it went live and the little text at the start apologizing that the explanation has to wait because the lyrics are starting hasn’t failed to make me smile yet

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

"the number one knowledge entertaining-sound-person" beautiful

[@gooeyshears4721]

"I'm a big fan of the grammatical particle la in toki pona. easily my favorite grammatical particle, hands down." Someone having a favorite grammatical particle, let alone one from a niche conlang, is one of the nerdiest things I've ever seen. 10/10 I love it keep up the good work

[@komarunaegi7460]

This is amazing! I love how much thought was put into this. I haven’t heard of Toki Pona until literally today, and found this cover in the process! The vocalist did a really good job, too! It really goes to show how fluid translation can be across multiple languages-the English, Japanese, Spanish, and even this version all word their lyrics differently yet still convey the same general themes and subject matter of the song, and do so well, in ways that sound natural and flow well with the meter. It sucks that the Internet normally gets angry or toxic whenever anything translation or localization-related is brought up, you know? There’s this mentality that if something isn’t worded exactly the way it is in Japanese, or the original language, it’s automatically bad or wrong or was a mistake of some kind, but that’s not always the case-and a lot of the time it’s just how translation of any kind works. And that’s not even taking into account localization at all. Also, agreed. Penny is certified best girl.

[@camelcaseco]

oh god this is so good, and wow, jules' vocals are great!

[@julester]

thank you so much i like singing :)

[@Kinzsters172]

jules is once again a real one fr

[@julester]

ur the realest blue tysm!!

[@quisken7793]

0:59 dreams of our generation motif??

[@NStripleseven]

Darn right it is

[@sebastiancosta117]

came for "hangman is a weird game". now I'm into conlangs, I'm learning toki pona, and I don't use uppercase except for "I" and for names. thanks jan Misali, your channel is really pona :p

[@eraneranera]

i think this is what serotonin sounds like. i don't know a thing about warioware, but this is just so cute and lovely in toki pona! i listened to the official english, japanese, and spanish versions, and while those are all adorable, i've come back to listen to this so much over the last two days! i love it!

[@taududeblobber221]

@Heyman Coolmanilikeitverymuch your issue regarding akesi has been fixed in the newest book, lipu ku.

[@egon3705]

@ some stickman boi anti-frog propaganda has been fully disposed of with the release of the dictionary

[@Hugelag]

I can safely say that I don't think I've heard of this language before, but it sounds fantastic!

[@classicallemur1190]

The great thing about subscribing to these kind of channels is that you litterally have no clue what's gonna show up in your feed

[@hila5693]

I love how in Hebrew, "ona li" literally means "she answers me", so it kinda sounds like you're asking her who she is and she tells you her name

[@Veilure]

Wow, Mitch sure does have a good singing voice! All jokes aside, good job :P

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

lon a. (kin la toki, jan pi sona ala a mi o :p)

[@cadekachelmeier7251]

@@mamusipipalisajelo5419 Your comment says "Translate to English" below it, but the button does nothing. Bad job, Google. Learn Toki Pona.

[@realemolga6306]

true, but why'd you steal my profile picture >:( /j

[@Jorge-xf9gs]

@@cadekachelmeier7251 For me, it moves the colon one character to the left.

[@janLilin]

ilo Google pi ante toki li pakala

[@andura_1]

As someone learning Toki Pona this is genuinely great, sounds so good too. I was just looking for a Toki Pona song that fit my tastes :))

[@TEN0R_CL3F]

the amount of thought put into this translation, as well as toki pona translation in general, is *really* impressive, and jules is a really lovely vocaloid to listen to :)

[@julester]

i don't know if this was just a typo or something but i'm an actual person not a vocaloid asdfgsdf i really appreciate it though!!

[@TEN0R_CL3F]

@@julester HAHA OH GOD IT WAS A TYPO IM SORRY!! i listen to a lot of vocal synth covers so its just habit to type that omg ;;, you have a great voice!!

[@julester]

@@TEN0R_CL3F LOL IT'S OK i understand! tysm!!

[@jacobrzeszewski6527]

@@TEN0R_CL3F lol, I was about to flip shit if this was a real vocaloid. Then again with ML synths like Cevio and Neutrino AI, it might not be that far off.

[@janLilin]

Really like the glyphs you used for jan Peni. Love how it turned out.

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

a lon! mi lukin ala e ona lon tenpo pini. taso ona li pona mute. ken la nimi “epiku” li pona suli ala lon tenpo mute. taso ona li pona a lon ni tan sama lukin ona pi nimi ‘ni.’

[@janLilin]

@@mamusipipalisajelo5419 lon. ona li nimi musi, taso mi la jan Peni li kepeken e nimi musi. lukin tan oko mi la ona li pona tawa ona.

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

@@janLilin a a, pona.

[@krishacz]

i love how you raved about the word "mu" when right in that same line, you can see that the toki pona word for gross is literally "yucky"

[@GRA00071]

not me watching this again because I was pausing to read your notes every 2 seconds the first time around 😅

[@PanjaRoseGold]

This is such a strange channel and I'm here for it

[@fuuryuuSKK]

re: li pali e ilo nasa I feel like using "contraptions" over "devices" in the english version contained the strangeness implicitly

[@hnglbanana]

just heard the original for the first time in-game after listening to this version every day since it came out so i cannot put into words how surreal that was. this version is a lot of fun to sing along with though, even if i don't know how to speak toki pona... yet

[@aureavita8653]

haven't even finished the video but all i can say is: this is a banger

[@popnpog6351]

penny my beloved.... everyone did such great work on this!!!

[@emmautterback3927]

Hey you posted right as I was starting to learn toki pona (Am I going to actually do something productive over the break?) Thank you for making these videos :)

[@bananacat3109]

i already started like 3 weeks ago but i had school so now i’m only 1/6 of the way done, i’m hoping to learn the rest over break

[@egon3705]

wouldn't "jan kalama musi _sona pi_ nanpa wan" be easier to parse than "jan kalama musi _pi sona_ nanpa wan"? i feel like "knowledge-singer that is the best" works better than "singer of the best knowledge" ...is what i would say if i hadn't typed that out and realized "smartest singer" is a good way to describe Penny

[@sonictb1]

i am so in love with these covers, i might have to write a song in toki pona

[@khanutukho8448]

Holy Moly

[@FishandChipper]

'ona li jo e linja loJE' - jan Kewima985

[@spiralhalo]

This song is beautiful. I used to want to learn Japanese to understand beautiful Japanese songs. Now I want to learn toki pona.

[@vanirie434]

This is such fun way to highlight the lyricism of a language like this :D

[@levitheentity4000]

This is better than the original, lol

[@indigohalf]

Dang, I love Penny too now

[@thezipcreator]

ni li musi kalama nanpa wan pi jan Misali pi ni: mi sona e toki pona li ken sona e kon pi nimi lon musi kalama. tenpo nanpa wan pi mi kute la, mi lukin ala e kon pi nimi li kute taso (en lukin taso) e nimi pi toki pona. tenpo nanpa tu la, mi lukin e kon pi nimi li kama sona e lili, taso tenpo wan la, mi sona mute e kon pi nimi pi musi kalama ni. pona!

[@XplosivDS]

This is incredibly well made

[@bleh9738]

jan Misali has really improved his singing voice!

[@kidyomu89]

Literally got distracted by how good it is that i failed multiple times to read the lyrics

[@user-ff6eg3jy4k]

Ok, I knew you're a rhythm heaven fan, but I never expected to see WarioWare here

[@Zennan]

YEAHHHHHHHH

[@ARVash]

Damn this is really good

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

Toki Pona is a beautiful language

[@ProactiveYellow]

What is the word used in her name cartouche for "e?" I'm not familiar with the inverted "ni" symbol

[@HBMmaster]

it's "epiku"!

[@ProactiveYellow]

@@HBMmaster that's interesting. The sitelen pona I was familiar with from the community I'm in was quite different. Cool to see that we're getting dialects based on speaker communities

[@illiarudkov499]

Dear God this makes me so dance-y! And it SUPER RHYMES, it's very cool! Keep it up, you (you exactly and all other people that worked on this) are awesome! Also, does it exist on Soundcloud?

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Jerma: ona li jo e linja lojEEHeHH

[@egon3705]

*jan Sema li pini pali e sitelen pi tenpo suli*

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

It's Magic language..

[@mnemo4528]

Watch me get into WarioWare because of this… I would. I really would. It got me back into toki pona, at least. Also, Jules’s voice is so pretty!! They make me want to cover my own toki pona translations if I ever finish them

[@julester]

glad to be an inspiration :D you totally should, it's always good to have more toki pona music in the world!!

[@tbodt]

ona li jo e linja loje li jo e ilo lukin sike li meli lili lon ma suli li pali e ilo sin nasin ni li pakala la suno sin ni li seme? ona li jan Peni ona li moku e lipu laso ilo kute e musi li kama sona e ijo jan Peni li wile kama jan kalama musi pi sona nanpa wan pakala li pana e sona sin ale la ona li alasa e ken pona ona li suwi li musi li sona wile lape ale li ken kama lon ale li lukin la o pana e sina ken la mu ona li ken kalama jaki taso ale la ona li awen ike anu pona li suli ala jan ale li olin e ona ona li lon tomo pali li pali e ilo nasa li pali e ilo sin ni tan sina o kama jo e ni ijo ike li pali la jan Peni li pona e ni ale la ona li pali kepeken olin ale li lon sama wile anu sama pakala wile la ni li pona. ona lis ona li toki e ni: pakala mi li weka la mi ken ala kama sona [sike li sin:] ona li jo e linja loje li jo e ilo lukin sike li meli lili lon ma suli li pali e ilo sin nasin ni li pakala la suno sin ni li seme? ona li jan Peni

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

a lon, jan Tepo o 👀.

[@tibethatguy]

why does the ending make me emotional.

[@csdgay]

every time 1:25 rolls around i always think its gonna transition into scatman's world like a siivagunner rip

[@xtzyshuadog]

Guess I'll learn a new language after all just to sing this

[@foxzyx]

Is it just me or dose this sound better than the original in my opinion it dose sound better than the original

[@robertmarley9380]

why am i crying wtf. thabks

[@Christian-se5si]

this a banger

[@HamStar_]

I think the way you chose to write Peni is very pretty

[@antoniobarbalau1107]

Amazing ♥️♥️🥳🥳🥳

[@CRITICALLY_ENDANGERED]

Nice

[@archniki_]

Now we need tokipona dubteam to make this show in toki pona

[@gardenagnostic]

i dont know toki pona but haha funny language penny go brr

[@aeyempire]

Omg, this is life

[@pippastrelle]

Toki pona does sounds great

[@wilr9183]

jan [pona epiku ni ike] is a very very pretty way to write jan Peni in sitelen pona i like it a lot hehehee

[@peachybanjo]

do you try to slyly insert ‘dreams of our generation’ into every toki pona translated song? because I hear it in all of them. (there’s one in this song at about 00:59 playing in the background)

[@ARBB1]

Nice.

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

0:58 dreams of our generation in the instrumental. epiku mute

[@TheWebgecko]

This is so well done!!! What daw do you use?

[@HBMmaster]

musescore and audacity lol

[@BasketOfPuppies642]

Penny got that tgirl swag

[@ByrdieFae]

Holy smokes that was cute!

[@tomk2948]

pona kin!

[@aspin-the-askal]

Failure version when?

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

wawa a! tenpo pini weka la mi lukin e kama pi ante toki pi kalama ni lon pali-musi lon ma pona. taso mi weka sona e ona la ona li namako sin a tawa mi. musi!

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

Mukko diot dorgumek zu azeit?

[@andura_1]

@@migarsormrapophis2755 Who on Earth are you and what is the language you’re using. I keep seeing you places.

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

@@andura_1 Jan Mis ommay il pil umfimdit wi, "Toki Poki" xeorrit balod pil. Pil eziez zedurr wha rived ami amry fi di nukhed uza.

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

​@@andura_1 Uza git zeeliry, zeoy il azeit gmawez wha!

[@mamusipipalisajelo5419]

@@migarsormrapophis2755 seme? mi sona ala e toki sina I'm not sure what you said.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

C O N T E N T.

[@Moley1Moleo]

For the sections showing the lyrics and translations, what did you use to actually make the video? Is it simply a slide-program (like Powerpoint) and you exported it as a video to then edit in the other parts in another program?

[@egon3705]

google slides edited in after effects

[@BudderBoyz]

yo this is the song Jerma sang

[@egon3705]

ona li jo linja loJ̴̣̻͙̃͊͑̀̂̈́̓̔̂͑͂̓̕͘͝Ẹ̸̜͉͒͆̚

[@chadparalosamigos1887]

Linda

[@gliesegliese1411]

musi sina la sona pi toki pona mi li pona pali! sina pona!

[@keytron1391]

Wow, Jan Misali’s voice sounds lovely in this vid

[@NightfallStation]

straight. B A N G E R.

[@julester]

given that it was made by two aroace people i would call it an aroace banger

[@KhenbishM]

Sp do the song lyrics change based on your subjective opinions and views of characters/places/things in the game, or do you just use the original writer's viewpoint? Also, is there a way to signal that "the following is not mine" for retelling a story and such?

[@Tesseract_King]

Retelling a story frequently uses a construction like "ona li toki e ni:" (they said this:)

[@smorcrux426]

You should seriously have some video or anything that explains this whole rhythm heaven situation. I watch you for the linguistics and I don't understand at all these types of videos, and all the rythm heaven games are on ancient consoles for decades ago, and while I would really like to be a part of this ~~cult~~ community I don't really know how to enter it.

[@birde6393]

you're in luck! this is from warioware, not rhythm heaven. there's a warioware game out for switch if you'd like to play :)

[@egon3705]

you could always take the everybody row route (aka using desmume to play your "legally acquired" rhythm heaven ds rom ;))

[@gyorokpeter]

1:42 "tan" normally means from, so how come it means for?

[@HBMmaster]

it also can mean "because of", so in this context it's like "she made this because of you", "you are the reason she made this"

[@andura_1]

NI LI SELI!

[@lorengo183]

pali pona kepeken kalama misu ni 🌝

[@RubyPiec]

do people names start with "jan" all the time in Toki Pona? I noticed this when in the translation of "jan Peni" at 0:42, it still said "jan Peni"

[@exclasen]

it indicates that you're talking about a person, yeah. see also: jan Misali = [person] [mitch halley]

[@Tesseract_King]

Yes, although occasionally people will (with varying degrees of seriousness) use a different head marker word. For example, in a more serious context I go by "jan Katapini" (person named Gav Daphne) but I really like robots, so my username on the TP discord server is "jan ilo Katapini" (machine-person named Gav Daphne). I've seen people use a ton of different head-markers!

[@ikbintom]

So weird that there's a specific morpheme to indicate names, would make much more sense to me if it was something broader like an animate marker

[@Tesseract_King]

@@ikbintom It's not a specific name marker, it's just the word for "person". Proper names in toki pona are always adjectives and thus always have to modify something -- jan Peni (the person named Penny) or ma Inli (the country called England) or waso Tuwiti (the bird named Tweety) or what have you. But jan and ma and waso are just the words for person and country and bird.

[@ilikedinosaurs392]

@@exclasen wait I thought his name was Jan Misali as in first name Jan last name Misali 💀