#ijo

Some 20 min coffee shop doodlies! Dusty and @/crvdematter 's fisher Ijo!

whisker HCs from @/tadporridge

noun: a thing; material or matter; stuff

Examples:

o pana e ijo lili. ("Give [me] the little thing.")

sina o pilin ale e ijo ni! ("You shouldn't touch that thing!")

ijo alasa li lon seme? ("Where is the hunting gear [lit. 'stuff of hunting]?")

ijo jelo ni li jaki. ("This yellow thing is gross.")

mi wile e ijo kasi. ("I need more wood [lit. 'plant material'].")

ona li pakala e ijo. ("He broke something.")

sitelen pona:

‘Lovers Tomb’, Northern Wei dynasty, China (386-534),

Archaeologists in China have discovered a rare double burial, or “lovers’ tomb,” featuring the skeletons of a man and woman locked in an eternal embrace.

Though the grave is 1,500 years old, she still wears a plain silver band on her ring finger.

This is the first known double burial from Chinese antiquity. Another famous dual grave, Italy’s Lovers of Modena of two skeletons holding hands, was discovered to be two men, rather than a man and a woman, as previously believed.

(1) a consonant harmony system I have not seen before but which makes excellent sense regardless:

(2) the perennial difficulties of assigning semantics to noun classifiers:

“Inanimate objects with a trunk” — this probably does not mean “statues of elephants”, so, an interesting way to express “trees”?

A  Hezbollah operative was arrested by Federal authorities. Alexei Saab was arrested in July and charged on September 19th with spying for Hezbollah and targeting several locations in the US, according to the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Some of the  locations he surveilled as a Hezbollah operative were“the New York Stock Exchange, U.N. building, Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and…