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"people keep unsubscribing"? they subscribed to the conlang enthusiast rhythm heaven fan music person and unsubscribe because of rhythm heaven toki pona translations????

"because people keep unsubscribing" I wish that weren't the case, bc these toki pona translations of songs I've never heard of are really cool and it's a way to learn by immersion while also finding cool new music. Also 90% of these lines hit really close for me, I love how Toki Pona's vagueness almost lets you describe some things with MORE specificity. (for example, "sina suli e musi" - "you increase/make bigger the fun [sic]" is an idea I inherently understand even if there's not a direct way to say it in most natlangs)

I love knowing next to nothing about this language and still enjoying these videos. There’s something about jan Misali’s videos that always make them entertaining and informative. Hell, even “here’s tree” taught me that there’s a caption option for “English (India)”.

even as a teen i loved this song and it took me longer than it should've for me to realize why also low key why does no one talk about the robot going "oh yeah" at "i only wish i knew"

Watching this while applying my purple nail polish and feeling pona lukin.

i am crying this is so beautiful and so gender

This is perfect! Also, your voice is very soothing. Very gender of you!

this is one of those songs that's so trans it crosses the line from being "Yeah it's about accepting yourself more broadly but trans interpretations also make sense" to "yeah this song is about being trans but interpretations about accepting yourself more broadly also make sense" Anyway this song makes me cry and this translation is very fun

Damn, the song is right. Part of me feels like I should've heard this 2 years ago, but I don't think I'd have believed it. There's something overwhelming in going from avoiding mirrors like the plague to feeling that rush of euphoria every time you come across one. When you look at yourself and see you're beautiful. Watching my dreams become reality is the best part of transitioning for me 💖🏳️‍⚧️

I found the thing about the gender interpretation/reading being intentional in this translation really interesting because like, it feels almost like an explicit admission of the subjectivity in the translation But thinking about it more, *every* song translation necessarily depends on however the translator decides to interpret the lyrics of the song, since a perfect, one-to-one translation which fits the melody and meter of the song and also miraculously has the exact same implications and themes and interpretations seems literally impossible? So like, probably best not to value “objectivity” in reference to translation (or even in reference to pieces of media in general) Anyway I realize what I just said wasn’t really about the translation itself other than as a jumping off point to my own train of thought, so here’s another thought I had while watching this: I think I’ve still yet to get the hang of the vagueness in toki pona. There was one moment in this video where there were a ton of ways to interpret “lukin”, but yesterday when I was reading through the lyrics it’d only occurred to me to interpret it as just meaning “see” in a completely literal sense with the possibility of other meanings not even occurring to me at all! So it was nice to have that sort of reminder that toki pona words are a lot broader in terms of meaning than what might occur to me at first glance! --- I completely understand if you decide it’d be best for the channel not to do more analyses for this album’s songs, but I just wanted to voice my appreciation for them! They’ve been so helpful in terms of motivating me to try and learn toki pona and to someday try translating songs myself, and it’s always so cool getting to see them and get a glimpse at some of the thoughts that went into making them! (I think I said something similar to that last bit on the moku Sutolokanopu video yesterday, but it’s still true lol) If you decide to keep doing more of these videos for songs from this album, I’d love to see one for tomo Napisa! The Vötgil caught me so off guard the first time (part of my brain was convinced it was English and it took until partway through my second listen to realize what it probably was lol) and I’d love to know what those lyrics meant! (Just occurred to me I wrote like 3 separate comments and just stitched them together into one lmao) (Edit: okay one last thing because I forgot to mention it, I just wanted to appreciate the gendery stuff and the fact that that was intentionally baked into this translation! I’d say it comes at a particularly gendery period in my life but let’s be honest, I’ve had no shortage of gendery times and I almost certainly will continue to moving forwards, but either way I really enjoyed it :D )

it's so interesting to see how someone else translated this song!! I ended up translating "I only wish I knew" as "kijetesantakalu" bc even tho the syllables don't match I couldn't get it out of my head. also crying bc raccoons is funny to me and kinda gender (?)

Jan misali in 2024 will be exclusively Toki Pona covers

These song translation videos are always a treat, writing translyrics and in general translating things with some constraints always lends itself to a lot of conversations on the nuance about how and why a certain translation was chosen c: Also Polyrythm jumpscare

people are unsubscribing, huh? that's it then. i guess I'll just have to Mega Subscribe. i can only use this power once per lifetime, but i am prepared to make this sacrifice. ok gotta go train under a waterfall in preparation. wish me luck jan pona mi

Just wanted to say the singing in this is amazing! You did a really good job translating and singing the song

Maybe I'm just getting used to it, but I could swear you're noticeably getting better at singing. It sounds less "forced", I think. More natural.

in my view, the only real interpretation of this song other than “it’s about being trans” is “it’s about being lesbian”. everything else kinda works but those two are the ones that are closest. it’s amazing because i’m fairly certain both are unintentional.

These lyrical analysis videos have got to be one of my favorite types of your content. I am perfectly ok with you not making these anymore if they're causing your channel to go down in subscribers. Whatever you do is perfect.

i literally manifested this earlier today i was thinking "what if jan Misali did a beautiful one day cover"

I would love for you to make these for the other new songs!! Especially awen lon (was that what it was called? the still alive translation), portal music is amazing

i love your singing so much

Thank you for adding commentary to all of these lines, and making this video part rhythm heaven song and part visual essay! WAIT A SECOND WHAT DID I JUST SAY‽

now adding 'a great voice' to jan Misali's long list of talents 📝

that polyrhythm tune hit me like a load of bricks lol

you are a bastion for the toki pona community, as well as the reason that i began my trip to learn it. thank you very much !

I really like these videos. Something about songs I know in a completely new language just captivates me.

So, this is it. This is the time I come back and listen to this and I start crying. thanks jan Misali

jan misali after combining the best 2 niche interests possible

Bro this is like, extra-superb! Plus, I LOVE REMIX 9! Good job Jan!

I’ve been waiting for this one

I came to your channel for ConLang Critic but while I have little to no intention of learning toki pona every video you do abt or with it is fascinating. Please keep doing whatever makes you happy

this is my fav rhythm song and the song that where i really became a fan of rhythm heaven

always interesting hearing translations like this

this is awesome!!! i know nothing about toki pona but your covers are always really cool!!! keep up the good work 👍

These explanations always make me happy! suno o seli pona lon sinpin lawa sina. tenpo suno ni o pona tawa sina

really awesome reading all these notes, this OWNS

Sorry people keep unsubscribing, I personally find these videos extremely interesting and they've helped my creative process when translating stuff to toki pona a lot

I hate myself so much for not being able to write a conlang like Toki Pona and for not being cultured enough to know the content of a lot of Jan Misali videos

Gender af 🏳️‍⚧️

0:46 ala, kalama musi li "tenpo kama la pona lukin" li "awen lon" ala

I love this.

full lyrics! jan li toki e ni: ni li ma mije sina ken ala ante e sina o sona e ni: sina ken kama jan pi wile sina a tawa sina li pona mute sijelo sina li pona lukin mi wile suno li wile pilin olin mi wile suno li wile pilin olin tenpo pini li ken ala weka sina wile jo e lon pi mani suno a, kalama musi li awen lon la sina tawa lon ma tomo telo li kama tan oko mi telo li kama tan oko mi telo li kama tan oko mi tan ni mi sona ala e tan kama la sina lukin e sina li pilin pona olin li pakala e sina li pakala e pilin sina la telo-oko-o awen sama telo sewi ni la sina ken lukin e sina li pilin pona sina ken open kama pona pilin sina li ken kama wan kin tenpo kama la wile ale sina li kama

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE RHYTHM HEAVEN FEVER SONGS YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

aaa, my favorite fever sonnggg,,

i really enjoy these videos they're like the perfect intersection of niche shit i like

Amazing!

My favorite of this recent batch by far

the 'pona mute' at the end caught me by surprise, good job

damn man, your singing is getting better. i clicked on this and was like ??? is that Misali??? no way but, in fact, yes way

Wonderful vocal performance!! This is the first one of these videos I've seen and I didn't know you sang, but it sounds great! I'm surprised because singing takes a lot of effort and time to be good at and I didn't realize thats something you were working on. Good job!

I find these videos interesting; sorry to hear people are unsubscribing over them :(

mmmmmm very gender

WHY DID I NEVER SEE THIS, THIS IS SO COOL

jan Misali

Goddamn! Your voice is amazing! Bravo Vinc- uh I mean Jan! 👏 👏

The unsubbing folks are COWARDS i stg

heck yea

gender

OK IT'S ON

another translation for me to memorize

letsgo!

I'l have to watch this on the computer so i can pause and read all the liner notes!

1:33 polyrhythm tune starts if anyone needs it.

0:42-0:54 kalama sina lon linja musi ni li pona mute a

Hey ik this is a bit of a weird req but for the second Cursed Conlang Circus we got a submission entirely in Toki Pona and we don’t really know how we’re gonna include it since none of us speak it so as a kind of Hail Mary joke suggestion someone suggested we have you translate it for us. If I’m correct it’s *hyperpona* so it should be a treat for you to go through if you wanna help us w it

kalama sina li pona suli (:

It feels like a finnish person singing drunk

Are these made with Fluidvolt's Mother 3 soundfont? pona!

The second verse will be translated.

SHI NING GLA MOUR

1:26 tenpo pini la mi kute e ni kepeken nasin nasa. mi pilin e ni: kalama musi ni li toki e nimi "omekapo" lon kipisi ni taso msa e ni: seme li lon? tenpo ni la mi sona e ni: kalama musi ni li toki e nimi "open kama pona" (before i watched this video, i misheard a lyric in this song as "......omekapo..." but i wasn't quite sure it was saying that. apparently it was "open kama pona"

fork

I'm still trying to figure out the chant at the end. Can anyone make it out? I hear "o napi te" but that isn't a thing, so... Current guesses: o! kepeken! (do the thing?) ona pi tan! (because of you?) o Kapitan! (captain-act?)

where love rap

You used to be bad at singing, you’re a lot better, and this is a vid from over 1 year ago

why is there a pose for the fans out of nowhere

pona mute!

Today is September foursyth.

Sims language

Trans rights

what

Can you have something like a separate channel for music? No offence, but it sucks and I don’t want to see it in my notifications