Q: не звучит ли ‘jan li toki Inli’ как-то странно?

You may have noticed sentences like:

But in English, these sentences are Subject-Verb-Object. ‘English’ and ‘Minecraft’ would be the object of the sentence. But there’s no object in Toki Pona — you can tell that, because there’s no 󱤉 e. How does it work, then?

Well, the translation is a bit misleading. Here’s what it means more literally:

We’ve already talked about how adjectives and adverbs are the same thing in Toki Pona, and names are adjectives. So logically, they can be adverbs, too! It’s grammatically similar to sentences like:

Are there alternatives?

Yes! In fact, this style with names as adverbs is relatively recent in popularity. The older style looks like this:

Can I say ‘toki e toki …’ or ‘musi e musi …’?

This was relatively common in the past! But nowadays, the meaning might be understood a bit different from what you want: