Ah! Very true. My Toki Pona is very rusty as you can see. I forgot a lot of compound lexicon and idioms :(<p>I&#x27;ve always seen &#x27;Toki Pona&#x27; used as a proper noun following the proper noun rules to avoid confusion with &#x27;good talk&#x27; and the like (which I guess is the purpose of the rule in the first place, as well as discouraging proper nouns). I learnt it a long time ago so maybe the requirement has been dropped? Or lousy usage since it&#x27;s very common that people forget to follow the proper noun rule. In &#x27;kama sona e toki pona&#x27; I&#x27;d be inclined to understand &quot;learning to talk well&quot; rather than &quot;learning Toki Pona&quot;. Perhaps that was the intent? Anyways, there&#x27;s so much outdated and non-canonical material, and most of the canon has holes and even doesn&#x27;t follow its own advice. And actual usage has diverted so much too (plus having zero native speakers everyone has their own usage). &quot;Language-ing&quot; is hard :P Even more so in a vague language like Toki Pona.<p>The Coca Cola example would require &#x27;e&#x27; to mark the direct object (&#x27;sina telo ala telo e telo Coca Cola&#x27;). I&#x27;ve grown so accustomed to a common noun following &#x27;e&#x27; that it missing sounds really jarring.<p>mi toki e toki Toki Pona tan ni: toki Toki Pona li musi tawa mi. toki Toki Pona li pona kin tawa ali! tenpo suli la mi toki mute e toki Toki Pona. taso tenpo ni la mi toki lili e ni.