telo misikeke pi toki pona - a toki pona grammar checker

This tool was developed by jan Nikola, with help from jan Kijon (thanks for the tip of LDT!)

Powered by:

• A modified version of LDT for the highlighting
• lipu Linku, for the word usage database
• Tippy and Popper for the tooltips
• This Round Potion icon, remixed for the toki ponesque logo

Objective

jan li kama sona e toki pona la, pakala sama li lon toki ona. ilo ni li alasa e pakala ni lon toki.

This tool is not a toki pona parser. Instead, it looks for patterns of common human errors.

It was developed during the proofreading/retranslation of jan lawa lili, once I noticed that a few recurring errors followed the same patterns.

Standard toki pona Disclaimer™

o sona e ni: nasin pona pi toki pona li mute.

This tool is not authoritative. Different people use different styles of toki pona. An underlined passage does not necessarily mean that it should be reworded.

I tried to split "error" types into different categories in order to minimize the confusion:

• Errors: those should be fairly non-controversial ill-formed passages.
• Possible errors: those are patterns that fit common beginner mistakes, but that might be valid in specific contexts.
  Think mi tawa e tomo mi (I move my house) instead of mi tawa tomo mi (I go to my house).
• Nitpicks: those are not errors per se, but could probably be rewritten in a more toki ponesque way.
• Uncommon words: words that are not widely known in the toki pona community. They are taken from the Lipu Linku API. Anything that is not marked as either common or core is flagged. When you use them, you should consider that most of the toki pona speakers don't know them. Words for the sandbox are not part of the Linku API, so telo misikeke just flags them as spelling errors (sapelipope! mi o apelo!).

Limitations

pakala mute li lon nimi sama la, ilo ni li ken ala sona e ale.

The biggest limitation is that it cannot parse two overlapping errors.

For instance: jan li li moku mute en moku kin will show the li li error, but not the erroneous en use.

If you correct the first error, jan li moku mute en moku kin will then show the problematic en.

Anything else I should know?

o luka e nena CTRL e nena "." tawa ni: sina ken lukin e pakala sinpin :-)

Ctrl+. will bring your cursor to the next error. This is useful when correcting larger texts.

Contribute

sina wile pona e ilo ni la, o toki tawa mi!

If you have ideas for other common errors I missed, if you encounter any problem (e.g. wrongly flagged passages or undetected errors), you can either:

• Open an issue on the Gitlab project
• Contact me, at 316k (at) legtux (dot org)

The code is released under the MIT license.

Thanks to everyone from ma pona pi toki pona and from lipu Wesi pi toki pona who tested it and sent comments!