bad nimisin [:nimisin: jama - kama e jan Jami kepeken wawa pi ante nimi sama jan Kita]

[spare star]

we’ve also gotten ilo Soweli for ilo soweli and ilo kasi for ilo Kasi

I’m so glad I have a normal name so no one does this to me

although I was once asked IRL why in the world I had chosen pakala

[remote sun]

in a hypothetical toki pona speaking country, what do you think the generic "john doe" name would be

[spare star]

jan Jan of course

mijun Niwe (ping reply) li penpo ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) in a hypothetical toki pona speaking country, what do you think the generic "john doe" name would be

[remote sun]

pona

i was also thinking jan Nimi

[spare star]

ken

[remote sun]

jan Sonja as the generic name

[spare star]

but there are already many jan Jan

like four I know

[remote sun]

to avoid jan Ni i could have gone the Misali route and included last name

jan Ni[redacted]

[spare star]

a a ken

or Misali could have gone the you route and gone for Misi or Mise or something

jan Misu Ali

or be like former leading Lojbanist and Tokiponist (and like 80-year-old retired psychology professor) John Clifford

he’s jan Kipo, you could be ni Surname

mi Sali

I met an ona Lim last weekend

IRL

here studying abroad from France

nasin la I called them sina Lim, they called themself mi Lim

I think sakawi did the same for a time

[obtuse geyser]

My first and last name can't combine in tp

😔

My first name is þe goat anyways idc

[night vault]

erre - a tongue-twister, to make something very complex
(the <rr> is pronounced [r])
< Spanish "erre con erre guitarra, erre con erre barril, mira que rapido ruedan las ruedas del ferrocarril"

[obtuse geyser]

pokasi

[night vault]

my irl name in toki pona would go so hard
too bad i wouldn't ever use my irl name if im speaking toki pona

[obtuse geyser]

ona li tawa kiwen a

[raw granite]

anmapi
an electronic device, such as a TV, speaker, phone

[night vault]

first name resembles a toki pona word, last name is the definition of that word
so i could very reasonably go by ijo Ijo [if ijo were the word i was talking about]

[spare star]

that’s pretty cool

[spare star]

Luka Mano came to me while I was performing and I can’t get rid of it

akesi Kilo ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) first name resembles a toki pona word, last name is the definition of that word
so i could very reas…

[remote sun]

luca mano?

[spare star]

that works too

[remote sun]

well, we accidentally doxxed akesi Kilo. oh well /musi

toki pona dad jokes:

"mama o, mi wile moku"

"toki a, wile moku o

mi mama"

and this way, even non-dad mama can get in on the jokes

[near flame]

misonanasin - to know how to get a message from the #1181641057985908797 thread onto the starboard

misonanasin

now its this

[gilded loom]

sina wawa a

[jolly kindle]

tansasijonlili - microtransactions

[gilded loom]

ti - subcategory of wuwojiti, to use the illegal syllable ti

jan A: :nimisin: leti - ready. from english “ready”
jan E: sina ti a
jan A: a mi pakala. :nimisin: lesi -ready. from English ready

[spare star]

i love how that assumes people do discord nimisin format in speech as well

[remote sun]

they don't?? i'm gabberflasted

[chrome flame]

kili - to ask Gemini AI to make a nimisin #1162756469771472988 message

1. word already exists
2. concept does, in fact, exist, you just need two words for it because this is toki pona
3. etymology meaning something completely unrelated, only connected through a random chain of vague semantic comparisons (bonus: irregularly tokiponized for no reason)
4. wrong examples
5. wrong understanding of toki pona vocabulary
6. wrong understanding of toki pona philosophy
7. However, it is important to note that blah blah blah

[spare star]

at that point you’re making a new language…a tokiponido…a kili pi toki pona, one could say…

jan Tanjunsi 👏̌́ li pakala e pu ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) kili - to ask Gemini AI to make a nimisin #1162756469771472988 message …

[uneven plaza]

- qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

[jolly kindle]

kuwesi - qwerty

[gilded loom]

jen - Here is!
from Esperanto jen
jen soweli!

[spare star]

pona a

[sick forge]

kiliponido (a a a)

[spare star]

this is the logo of the tokiponidos discord server

jen la emblemo de la tokiponida diskordservilo

[chrome flame]

jen — synonym of jan
emblemo — synonym of sona
de — synonym of ale/ali
tokiponida — Esperanto, esperantido (doesn't require li)
diskordservilo — synonym of ike

[remote sun]

jan la sona ale la Elefanto li ike

[light canyon]

epelanto - he who hopes (for the world to get rid of all their languages with all that cultural heritage and replace it with some random eurocentric auxlang which isnt even that good but history doesnt care and has made it the most successful auxlang)

[toxic jungle]

epelan - the hope (for the world to get rid of all their languages with all that cultural heritage and replace it with some random eurocentric auxlang which isnt even that good but history doesnt care and has made it the most successful auxlang)

[spare star]

he who hopes for the world to get rid of all their languages with all that cultural heritage
straight up not true. zamenhof was invested in minority languages such as yiddish, and encouraged esperanto use as a second language, never meaning for it to replace natlangs

kisa seme Pisowe ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) epelanto - he who hopes (for the world to get rid of all their la…

[gilded loom]

beating the anti esperanto propaganda with facts and logic

[chrome flame]

doesn't excuse the fact esperanto is italian with a polish accent though

Practically 100% of vocabulary coined by Zamenhof is European

Not good when most of the world is not Europe

[light canyon]

me explaining to europeans that most of the world isnt europe (they dont believe me):

[chrome flame]

"but European culture is so widespread!"

[light canyon]

lmaoooo

[chrome flame]

"oh and look I added one word from Chinese (dialect not specified) and one from an African language (because it was borrowed into French)!"

[light canyon]

real

[spare star]

of course it doesn't! the only thing i objected to is the misinformation that zamenhof meant to replace other languages; i fully agree that esperanto is eurocentric and could be a lot better

jan Tanjunsi 👏̌́ li pakala e pu ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) doesn't excuse the fact esperanto is italian with a polish accent though

[timber pulsar]

pete - to lose (something , a thought i.e. to forget), to lack | ALT efficient, minimalist

from spanish perder

[icy phoenix]

this is fire

[light canyon]

why is this a bad nimisin

this is actually a decent idea

particularly the "efficient" def

[timber pulsar]

well there's pomotolo

[feral dome]

pomotolo

usage

sandbox (ku lili)

definition

effective, useful, give good results

etymology

Italian: pomodoro; tomato

ku data

tomato: 7%
(source one), (source two)

commentary

From the time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in Berlin in the 1980s, for which people often used tomato-shaped timers. In ku, "pomotolo" was given as one of the translations of "tomato", presumably due to speakers misusing or misunderstanding the word.

see also

pona, ken, wawa

⚠️ This proposed word is in the sandbox. It is not in use by the community.

[timber pulsar]

though that's more "effective"

i'll move it to #1191277884917174292

[light canyon]

a nimisin about efficiency which isnt efficient?

how not self detrimantally humourus is this

imisin
[rebracketting of "a nimisin" to "an imisin"]

[timber pulsar]

rather, it's a nimisin about effectiveness that isn't effective, because people keep using it to mean "tomato"

[steady drift]

noki - gnocchi. just to make "noki a" pun

[raw granite]

this is pi ken mute

[timber pulsar]

or like, pona

or ilo

i enjoy using ilo as a modifier

[raw granite]

tru

[steady drift]

osi - from Japanese 'hoshii' 欲しい (to want, to wish)

the long-awaited toki pona excuse word. specifically used in the phrase "te osi," meaning "please." (from Japanese '-tte hoshii' -て欲しい).

example:
o toki pona taso, te osi (speak toki pona only, please)

this nimisin caters to two audiences.

1. those who enjoy trolling people looking for excuse words in toki pona
2. those who want to sound like an anime character

[remote sun]

what is te tho

[spice sundial]

Emphasizes the speaker's self-emotion and other purposes

[spare star]

it's funny that out of all the honestly probably hundreds of ways of ways to say "please" you choose 欲しい—like that feels like the least "please" of any option, it's more like "I want you to (do) x"

jan Janpa Onjon ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) osi - from Japanese 'hoshii' 欲しい (to want, to wish)

the long-awa…

new nimisin kutasa and onekasima but they're the same as osi but different formality levels and connotations

toso sota molaema itatakita

or you could just not use any of these and just use te

[finite chasm]

oh i get it now

people forgot the original kon (TL: meaning) of the nimi (TL: word)

[timber pulsar]

yeah

[light canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/kasane-teto-gif-7491957198027907152

tetho

[sinful hedge]

P - used to imply Q

P la Q

P ala anu Q

[night vault]

(P en Q ala) ala [if subject]

[brave tapir]

mind your p's and q's

[remote sun]

that saying is so weird, because it means your Pleases and thankQs

[icy phoenix]

P en Q
P anu Q
P taso anu Q taso
P la Q
P taso la Q

[gleaming thunder]

nuton — gravity
<- Sir Isaac Newton

nokija — telephone
<- Nokia

[rugged mortar]

ALT - any device that doesn't shatter into a million pieces when it falls down

[night vault]

P xanu Q

[late fox]

palaka -- force
etym. Thai ผลัก (plak); push

mi palaka, pakala!

sorry for quality (in advance)

[night vault]

xanu - XOR, exclusive OR, A or B but not both

typically pronounced /anu/ but may be pronounced /ksanu/ if you really need to get the point across

[chrome flame]

This is the thread fot bad nimisin, aka stupid stuff, jokes, and shenanigans. If you actually want to propose a legit nimisin idea, there is the thread https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/1187029495203504168 for that.
There's also https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/1191277884917174292 for nimisin that are "okay", aka not jokes/crappy ideas but also probably not good nimisin anyways.

[gleaming thunder]

no!!!!!! it’s x/Sanu/

[warm cedar]

/ʃanu/

[chrome flame]

/xanu/

[night vault]

ʃ????????? Ive never even heard of anyone pronouncing XOR like shore

[gleaming thunder]

es una broma a la catalana

o a la portuguesa

castellano es raro porque <x> no es x/S/

[warm cedar]

/ʃ/

[gleaming thunder]

pues… fue x/S/, pero x/S/ > /x/

[warm cedar]

/ʃ/
/ʃ/

[jolly kindle]

katoleja - the busy beaver function, equal to the maximum amount of 1s on the binary tape after running all possible n-state turing machines which eventually halt
from latin "castorea" - beaver

[late fox]

well, it's just shenenigans lol

[night vault]

pake - in order to, like tawa preposition but specifically for defining purpose/end goal/result
< Spanish pa' que < Spanish para que

[gleaming thunder]

I like the irony this has with pake being just pini

[timber pulsar]

and don't forget to conjugate in subjunctive after

mi moku e telo pake sijelo mi li pone

[gleaming thunder]

mi wile kama pona pake mama mi li pilinee pona

[night vault]

pake sepan, theres one toki pona song i sometimes hear on the tp radio that uses (the other) pake, and every single time i always hear it as pa' qué (note: yeah, with the ´)

[timber pulsar]

spanish conjugations mi la pilin has the infinitive pilIRR so the present subjunctive for singular ona is actually pila

[gleaming thunder]

o kama lili e kalama pake /lyrical-reference

[timber pulsar]

oh i should actually update the notes

[night vault]

the notes?

[gleaming ravine]

the notes li toki e nasin pi toki Epanjo

[night vault]

o pana

[gleaming ravine]

o lukin e /peek spanishconjugations

[night vault]

holy vergaciones

[light canyon]

can also be pronounced /zanu/, /eksanu/, /xanu/, and x/Xanu/

[warm cedar]

/χanu/

[night vault]

nope, not zanu, i am forbidding it /prescriptivism

[light canyon]

oh it can also be /gzanu/

[night vault]

yeah gzanu is fine

[gleaming thunder]

apeja — bee
<= ES abeja “bee”

-# although aweja would be better tbh

[timber pulsar]

i love how you are the only person to have ever said vergaciones in this server, until now

[gilded loom]

sowelen - soweli, taso len li lon poka ona
tan jan Suko

[dull thorn]

poki - toki pona

[late fox]

mote - moku telo

[light canyon]

unpa
[word which gets you on the starboard instantly]

[gleaming thunder]

the new skibidi

[late fox]

tutuwan - luka

[tame comet]

https://tenor.com/view/no-unpa-unpa-destroy-destroy-unpa-kill-unpa-fist-unpa-gif-14979209840482861354

[pliant creek]

nelunepa - nena and or lupa

[midnight iris]

nelunpanli nena, lupa, unpa, pana, and pali

[fierce oyster]

nelunpanlike
nena, lupa, unpa, pana, pali, ike, and any combination of those

[raw granite]

+lampan

[light canyon]

no starboard 3:

tokipona any word

[safe thistle]

bcdfghqrvxyz: anything written or spoken or signed or transmitted in a language other than toki pona

[fierce oyster]

[every single syllable possible except ones in toki pona]
full version of wuwojiti

[raw granite]

that could be infinite

[fierce oyster]

frfr

[toxic jungle]

sokwastoldapoybrantinfoiltiemidsowelqpaosnenxjglaoxjekgkaglasmekxjqlfkfjwn

[finite chasm]

that includes gvprckvni btw

and uh

that one emote in cdn

bushberry bush

[steady drift]

kukin : cooking. just to rhyme with lukin

[trail cape]

sina kukin li pona lukin?

[timber pulsar]

tenpo ni la mi kukin kepeken kon!

[fierce oyster]

pukin
booking, also just to rhyme with looking

[chrome flame]

winto : window, just to not rhyme with lukin

[light canyon]

sinto shinto, just to rhyme with winto

[late fox]

pinto printer, just to rhyme with sinto

[chrome flame]

linto ‡ the appearance of air which is to be released, just to rhyme with pinto

[late fox]

tinto tint, just to rhyme with linto

[chrome flame]

into into, just to rhyme with tinto

[late fox]

anto ante, just to rhyme with into

[night vault]

cambur - kili jelo palisa

[timber pulsar]

canberra - the capital of australia (sydney)

[fierce oyster]

cranberry - cranberry

[minor valve]

ranberry - raspberry, just to rhyme with cranberry

[tame comet]

pupu - to excrete toki pona: the Language of Good

[steady drift]

kulupu o, mi kukin anu seme

[remote sun]

se
chat

se o, mi kukin ala kukin

[obtuse geyser]

nasin old, from English Not and toki pona sin

[mortal turret]

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz - anything written or spoken or signed or transmitted in toki pona or another language
(pronounced/ˈæb.kdɛf.ɡə.hɪ.ˈdʒɪk.ɔl.ˈmnʌp.kɹstɪv.ˈwɪksɪz/ by the way)

[night vault]

ñ ):

[toxic jungle]

real

[light canyon]

also what about Cyrillic and arabic and Hebrew and Greek and Chinese and Japanese and Korean and Inuktitut and Cherokee

[night vault]

just use every IPA letter as well as their diacritical versions

[light canyon]

including control charecters?

[night vault]

elaborate

[light canyon]

what about emoji
emoji are proto writing taso

[light canyon]

like RTL or LTR or ZWJ; they're in Unicode!

[night vault]

eh fuck it, use every unicode character

and ucsur

[light canyon]

a good portion of UCSUR is not allocated and we can never know how large that portion is

[night vault]

and then every unicode character again, but combined with ́ , then again but with ̄ , and aga-

[light canyon]

yes

I tried typing "don't forget" and autocorrect tried to change it to "don't furry"

[night vault]

for ejemplo, 鬱˞ should be in there

[light canyon]

incredible character

[night vault]

rhotic depression

[light canyon]

is the rhotic getting meds /bad-joke

[gilded loom]

suna - large. ALT. small
source: #1162756469771472988 message

[reef marsh]

linpakonpani - bus
(tan toki Inli "Limbus Company", a game which features a bus as the primary mode of transport for the main cast)

[gleaming thunder]

me when I see a bus “is this a limbus company reference?!”

[woeful iris]

Ajusapatawe - The feeling of being superior, elitism, believing you're holier than thou

from "I use arch btw"

Example sentence "ona li jo e mani mute la ona li ajusapatawe"

"They think they're superior to others just because they have a lot of money"

[last harness]

palaka - 🐸

from Tagalog palaka - frog

[night vault]

palanka - lever
from Spanish palanca - lever

[late fox]

mi palaka e palanka palaka. pakala.

perfect language

[woeful iris]

pasaka - belt
from Polish pasek - belt

[late fox]

palaka - planck
from English planck - a unit of measurement

[safe thistle]

paleka - plague
from English plague

[mortal turret]

puluka - to own five individual copies of lipu pu
from toki pona pu luka

it is a requirement that it isnt written in normal font

[gleaming thunder]

puli — to own three copies of pu
“After all these years, I finally have them all…”
<= pu + tuli

[remote sun]

palaka
spinach, guardian, protector, horsekeeper, bed

from gujarati પાલક (pālak)

પાલક actually just has 3 meanings

spinach from sanskrit पालक्या (pālakyā)

guardian, protector, horsekeeper from sanskrit पालक (pālaka)

and bed from sanskrit पर्यङ्क (paryaṅka)

paryaŋka has a much more common relex of પલંગ (palaṅg)

[light canyon]

minimotowe
from "Mini Motorways", a game about making motorways
motorway

[sinful hedge]

len li toki e "o uta e jan kukin"

[night vault]

pronounced kepekeɲe

[finite chasm]

actually it's quépequeño

if it doesn't end in o is it really hispanic tbh...

actually i might be thinking of australian

[timber pulsar]

¡que pequeño!

[frank spruce]

lilija - to use. Calque of quépequeño.

[timber pulsar]

it should however be quépequeñar. and the debate over e or no e is actually whether there should be a de after it

[night vault]

quépequeñ isn't necessarily a noun, so no. you dont need an o

you know what? nimisin amendment:
it's quépequeñir as a verb, quépequeña as a noun, and i don't need to tell you how it works as an adjective

[fresh wave]

toki pona grammatical gender update

[wide radish]

kilili

kilije

kilisi

[quiet python]

c’hepegweñ

it’s like kepeken, but Breton

[lofty needle]

GPT could be ilasopika (ilo ante (Transformer) sona (Pretrained) pi kon ale (General))

[chrome flame]

ilo laso pika

makes sense

[fresh wave]

quépequainne
kepeken but french

[sick forge]

🚨 🛴 - An't
🪢 - An scooter

[light canyon]

hey btw the grammar in your bio is incorrect /nm

"li" is dropped after "mi"

[light canyon]

milese
from English "mileage", by means of calque from English "your mileage may vary"
result, expirience, situation

[toxic jungle]

inni - innit, ain't it, isnt it, or is it
from British English "innit"

[dull thorn]

wuwojitinni - wuwojiti but more complete

[raw granite]

*wuwotijinniinmi

[dull thorn]

*wutqimmx$ouÞ

[raw granite]

ala

[jolly kindle]

wtuwjnmonmitti

[lofty needle]

mi ijo nanpa wan li ijo nanpa tu for this looks weird since ijo nanpa wan looks like part of object instead of verb

and i don't want to make it multiple sentences

[fierce oyster]

it looks fine to me, without e there's no possibility of a direct object anyway

there are times where li dropping makes things unclear but i don't think this is one of them, i can't find another way to interpret it

[quiet python]

*tokiponaz

toki pona but proto-germanic

[last harness]

origin of ñ
nn❎
kepeken✅

[chrome flame]

*tōkipōnaz because Proto-Germanic did not have short o

[chrome flame]

The English descendant would be "toochipoon"

[crimson rain]

lipu - to interact with any sort of book

tawa - to

[gleaming thunder]

mipu — my interaction, experience, or knowledge of Toki Pona: The Language of Good
<- TOK mi pu “I am reading Toki Pona: The Language of Good” and merged by analogy with lipu as li pu

[quiet python]

nice

[chrome flame]

Proto-Germanic tōkipōnaz
Proto-West-Germanic tōkipōn
Old English tōċipōn
Middle English toochipoon, touchipoon, toochipoone...
Modern English toochipoon/touchipoun

[quiet python]

now do

*kijetesantakaluz

feel free to change things if the word doesn’t fit PG’s phonotactics

[night vault]

do nouns end in z anu seme

[chrome flame]

Proto-Germanic: *kijetesanþakaluz
Proto-West-Germanic: *kijetesanþakalu
Old English: ċīetesōþæcal
Middle English: cheetesothackal, chietesothacal, chietesoothackel
Modern English: cheetesoothackle

[finite chasm]

i feel like the spelling should still be cheetesothackal

like jackal

[light canyon]

proto-indo-european *tH2kiponos (literally "that which is pona") from *tH2kipen- plus *-os

possible loan from proto uralic *tahkihan ("pertaining to someone named lang from the far future")

possibly loaned into middle mongol as "takhikhan"

*tH2kipen- may have also been the source of proto-afro-asiatic *tohipon

there is also a proto Indo European mythological character known as *tH2kiponos

source of roman "Tekponius", the godx of all things pona

[finite chasm]

wait a minute

i feel like that wouldn't be the pie form if it's supposed to be the origin of the pgmc one

grimm's law and all that but maybe it's not

[modest river]

pilienisin - pini pali e nimi sin

[quiet python]

perfect

[last harness]

was about to try make that, but thank yoooouuuu

[chrome flame]

It's actually *deh₃geybéh₂nos
based on the presence of two voiced consonants next to each other, the marginal phoneme *b, and unclear derivation, possibly a borrowing from Proto-Uralic *dokjipänä, which has been compared to Northern Yukaghir дукайоопэньээ, Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *ðəcepənæ (from earlier *ðəcejəpənʁæ) and Proto-Yeniseian *dur-çaj-boŋɢejχ. Proto-Yeniseian may be the ultimate origin of the word, based on phonological developments not present in other language families. Further origin of the Proto-Yeniseian word unclear — likely a native word with unclear morphological structure and borrowing history, but has been compared to Old Chinese *[d]ˁrə kin-s [C.b]aŋʔ ɢ(r)ak (Baxter-Sagart reconstruction), though phonetic similarities are often considered to be coincidental; otherwise a native word, possibly also the origin of Jurchen hapax legomenon *dʒurkibaŋgï, has been compared to Proto-Athabaskan *dláˑrqeˑpυnq’əx̣uˑr under the Dené-Yeniseian hypothesis.

[toxic jungle]

amu - amu

[fierce oyster]

amu li lonsi

[gleaming thunder]

lon||si||

[light canyon]

oh right yeah
I forgot about Grimm's law 😭

[spare star]

akukonesesi | 2024 (post-ku)
power tool combo kit
Finnish akkukonesetti "power tool combo kit"

[gleaming thunder]

"a akukonesesi mi li pakala! sina sona ala sona e tomo esun pona tawa akukonesesi sin?"

[spare star]

"mi sona ala...poka o! sina akukonesesi lon tenpo mute. sina esun e akukonesesi sina lon seme? kolisin li wile akukonesesi e tomo ona la ona li wile e akukonesesi sin."

[gleaming thunder]

"mama mi li jo sin e akukonesesi la ona li pana e akukonesesi majuna ona tawa mi"

[gilded loom]

ak||ukones||esi

[woeful iris]

a - to own something, to have property

From Lushootseed ʔa

[lusty steeple]

toki ike - Fr*nch

lipu ni li toki kepeken toki ike
(this book is written in fr*nch)

[chrome flame]

poues — to interact with a copy of La Langue Française: La Langue Du Mal

[finite chasm]

no that's ithkuil

[gleaming ravine]

no that’s mini

[lusty steeple]

ithkuil is still better

[finite chasm]

ithquille

[spare star]

"aa, pakala. mi o alasa e ni tan jan ante akukonesesi: ona li esun e akukonesesi ona lon seme..."

kolisin ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) "mama mi li jo sin e akukonesesi la ona li pana e akukonesesi majuna ona tawa mi"

[light canyon]

the WOKE left
a group of people who are reported by several "independent" conservative sources to be unable to meme

[gleaming thunder]

tewokele

[late fox]

kulumu -- tenpo pi kulupu mu
Toki Pona "kulupu" + Toki Pona "mu"

[reef marsh]

welasulipawe - to be unable to understand a joke
tan toki Inli "relax liberals[, it's just dark humor]"

[quiet python]

so a herd?

[late fox]

group meowing session

[steady drift]

pumo - fumo plush

[modest river]

tried to search "meli pi telo nasa" but accidentally typed "semi"

[spare star]

a a a

🚚 pi telo nasa

[sick ocean]

semiconductor pi telo nasa

[bleak siren]

owawa
(n) gym bro, specifically one that tries to make small talk to you while youre minding your own business

comically, its sitelen pona is similar to that of toki, but the top line is barely bigger than the others

jan is implied from context

as a post-verb it just means alpha male flirting

[gleaming ravine]

o wawa o wawa
tawa anpa lon lupa
/musi kalama pi jan Usawi

[light canyon]

kijetesantakalu
what if we made a really long word, for laughs
and it has some random meaning like "procynoid" or something I'm not a biologist
and then it could be like a cultural thing too

[raven python]

lipusona
a fursona, but for books (commonly seen in ten words of wisdom)

[bleak siren]

temu
shortening of esun pi ala pona

mi tawa e temu. la mi pilin ike

[chrome ice]

BFDIA reference (ping off)

[woeful iris]

Sweet nothings shop?

[toxic jungle]

tesuka - question marker loaned from japanese desuka

liseme - question marker calqued from japanese desu(~li) ka(~seme)

[spare star]

help desu is not li

nor is ka really that seme

[fierce oyster]

me: i sure wish i could find a place that sells good voids
esun pi ala pona:

[spare star]

a a

[quiet python]

kijetesantaland - kijetesantakaland republic (toki pona country)

[spare star]

sigh not again

[fierce oyster]

sigh li tan seme
sona mi la ona li musi taso

[spare star]

tenpo mute la jan li toki e ni: "ma pona pi toki pona o lon a" "mani pi toki pona o lon a". ijo sama ni. jan Kuku li ni lon tenpo pini li sona ala e ike ona. ken la ona li awen wile e ma ni. mi sona ala

ken a la toki sina li lon. ken a la ni li musi taso. pakala mi

[fierce oyster]

a sona

[toxic jungle]

its the closest approximation i think there is lol (a lossy calque)

[jolly bramble]

maybe

[finite chasm]

ok you know how desu is most often found at the end of a japanese sentence

[quiet python]

taso tenpo lon la ni li joke. mi musi taso. tenpo lon la mi sona e ni: ma pi toki pona li ike.

||btw i don’t really like the fact that you just told people abt something i said in the past, and in another (smaller) server.

and for kijetesantakalu’s sake the “toki pona cryptocurrency” was a joke since the beginning, i never intended to actually create one.

otherwise i understand why you would have sighed if the kijetesantakaland idea was serious||

[finite chasm]

you know what's most often found in the end of a toki pona sentence? probably a

thus aseme

kijetesantakaland sounds like one of those theme parks that simulate a country

[quiet python]

sona sina li lon
this is form an inside joke made with a friend about a fictional country named “sutopatikuland”: we had created a whole culture around it like the “sutopatikudwich”: the country’s national sandwich filled with onion, carrot and cucumber pickles

[quiet python]

a a lon wawa a

[jolly bramble]

pakala mi, I didn't remember well what actually happened. I just remember that you had said some things related in the past, not what or where

[quiet python]

yeah that’s true i had the project of creating on toki pona micronation and had talked abt it in kulupu epiku, but then jan epiku mute had told me why it was bad.

[fierce oyster]

ah intriguing!

[gleaming thunder]

reposting this by bumping it

[timber pulsar]

ono - obstruction, blockade, inconvenience

from english “oh no”

[gleaming thunder]

not to be confused with onono

[timber pulsar]

right

[gleaming thunder]

https://linku.la/words/onono

[raw granite]

pake

[timber pulsar]

yea

i think the etymology is better though lol

[spare star]

I see! I'm sorry for overreacting

jan Kuku ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) yeah that’s true i had the project of creating on toki pona micronation and had talked abt it in kul…

no pake sounds so good though

jan Pulepo ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) i think the etymology is better though lol

[midnight iris]

HOLY SHIT MAFUYU REAL

[timber pulsar]

mi la if you’re going to do english it had better be funny, or there’s plausible deniability with cognates from other languages

that’s just my opinion though

[spare star]

yes!

yahn keekeelee [oh moo eh mee] ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) HOLY SHIT MAFUYU REAL

or at least an introject

we did not know it was from English! it just sounds like its meaning

jan Pulepo ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) mi la if you’re going to do english it had better be funny, or there’s plausible deniability with co…

[timber pulsar]

a sona

[chrome ice]

monsukalan
singing monster
from monsuta kalama

[mortal turret]

Ru - to interact with a non-existant toki pona book relating to pirates | ALT to pirate or use a pirated copy of something

[chrome ice]

tenilopeki
Emergency
From tenpo ike la o pakala e kiwen (In case of emergency, break glass)

[gleaming thunder]

tenilopeki

[chrome ice]

That sounds a lot better

[timber pulsar]

tiki

[chrome ice]

mi ru e musi Pipaki /j

[knotty pier]

ru li wuwojiti li ike mute tawa jan mama mute. (piracy is illegal and very bad for many creators of IPs)

[gilded loom]

wuwojiti - illegal, apparently

[finite chasm]

sin a

[mortal turret]

ru - to be completely different

[dull thorn]

wu - to interact with an illegal toki pona book

[chrome flame]

Pu — to interact with a book teaching you toki pona, but it’s all about cars

[spare star]

lon

Phototropism ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) ru li wuwojiti li ike mute tawa jan mama mute. (piracy is illegal and very bad for many creators of …

[woeful iris]

si - formal equivalent of sina

• Scottish Gaelic "sibh"

[spare star]

toki ma (now Kokanu) once had mi / si / on / mina / sina / ona

(in addition, Finnish has minä and sinä, with colloquial forms mä and sä)

[woeful iris]

Damn, at least they changed it

[spare star]

I'm not sure if they did or not!

I would think they did though, given that they replaced all the other toki pona-etymology words

[quiet python]

jujowisi - to respect toki pona’s phonotactics

“nimi ona li jujowisi”
their name respects toki pona’s phonotactics (they didn’t wuwojiti while tokiponising their name)

[woeful iris]

Yeah it seems to just be mi/tu/ja now

mi first person, tu second person, ja third person

[gilded loom]

ja should be first person smh

[woeful iris]

Yeah it confused me too

Apparently comes from Hawaiian

[spare star]

sona pona!

jan Ale - 👤🔣♾▶🛒🔣 ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) Yeah it seems to just be mi/tu/ja now

Polish reference

mije Kanoli ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) ja should be first person smh

[woeful iris]

Also bunch of other Slavic languages

[spare star]

yes but Polish is the one I've studied

[woeful iris]

fajnie

[gilded loom]

it is

[fresh wave]

pungo

[fresh wave]

pungo

[spare star]

what's fajnie

jan Ale - 👤🔣♾▶🛒🔣 ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) fajnie

ah

we have not studied Polish in a very long time

[woeful iris]

Yeah

[stoic tiger]

amisaj - emordnilap

[fresh wave]

nah that fits better as an esperanto word

amiso - emordnilap

amisa - emordnilapic

amisaj - emordnilapic (plural)

[bleak siren]

miku - shortening of laso pi meli musi no way

[gleaming ravine]

Does it refer to the blue in her hair anu seme

[bleak siren]

ya…

nothing else matters tbh

[fierce oyster]

mikumisinaona - blue hair pronouns

[light canyon]

e [content word relating to things that are acted upon]

[chrome flame]

[content word related to things that are coined in the ma pona discord server]

[gleaming thunder]

pronounced like a klaxon

[light canyon]

how is klaxon pronounced? we'll never know!

[woeful iris]

awooga

[fierce oyster]

tbh i don't think most people know the word klaxon, so i prefer to call it the awooga horn

[chrome flame]

o - water (from French eau)

[quiet python]

not a bad nimisin

[light canyon]

klaxon is a real English word????

[gleaming thunder]

yeah

that's why i used it

my antiquated knowledge strikes again

[night vault]

people dont know klaxon horns?
damn

[woeful iris]

℞ - alternative form of misikeke

[fierce oyster]

i don't!

(i mean now i do but i didn't before lele)

[woeful iris]

meli ilo

[remote sun]

hey michael! vsauce here… anu seme

anu seme is perfect for vsauce

[woeful iris]

taki - spicy

[quiet python]

tan/origin?

[night vault]

takis?

are they spicy? ive never had them

[light canyon]

vsauce should do a video on toki pona and begin it "hey, vsauce. Micheal here! 123 is a big number, or is it?"

[woeful iris]

takis the crisp

[finite chasm]

taki rubber

[raven python]

lilisesinku: to waste food

from "li li jie xin ku", the last 5 words of this poem

鋤禾日當午，汗滴禾下土，誰知盤中餐，粒粒皆辛苦
(basically, farming is really hard, so dont waste your rice because a lot of effort went into each grain)

because i always cite the last line when people waste their food and i can never remember the other 3 lines but FOR SOME REASON the last line is etched into my brain

[gleaming ravine]

tenpo mute la jan li toki e kulupu pini taso la sina sona e ni taso anu seme :p

[quiet python]

oh yes

[dull thorn]

taki - sticky

[night vault]

taki- tacky

[dull thorn]

tala - rickroll

[light canyon]

jamelrodeknaaleemgqbrilngmrshday - alphabet, international, phonetic, phonetics, phonemic, phonemics, writing system, beer, ale, alcohol, association, organization, IPA

[charred ridge]

taki - tacit

[remote sun]

tasi - to improve a tokiponization, even if it ruins the joke | ALT to make a nimisin with no obvious connection to its etymon

[night vault]

tasi - Taichi Suzuki from Yakuza 5 | ALT: Kazuma Kiryu from the Like a Dragon series (formerly known as the Yakuza series)
< English taxi 🚕

[quiet python]

elemenopi
to say things in a smooth manner, to speak fluently.

ona li elemenopi e toki suwi ni: they read this poem very well.

origin: LMNOP (the part of the alphabet that we say very smoothly and quickly)

[finite chasm]

@wanton wigeon

[remote sun]

fluent words

[quiet python]

sina a

[dull thorn]

juna - decay, ferment < majuna

suwi juna - alcohol
suwi juna juna - vinegar
telo soweli juna - cheese

[woeful iris]

not to be confused with "telo pi soweli juna", which is fermented meat juice

[finite chasm]

kuwa
interjection grah

[woeful iris]

also works as a pakala alternative

[mortal turret]

jelipasojunotepe - to loop back to the begining

[spare star]

juna
young

KMnO4 ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) juna - decay, ferment < majuna

suwi juna - alcohol
suwi juna juna - …

(definitely been done before)

[uneven plaza]

ma juna li majuna ala

[finite chasm]

juna juna - brainrot

[obtuse geyser]

Have we forgotten what þey took from us? You cannot starboard a bad nimisin message. 😔

[gleaming thunder]

do we star to get something on the starboard or do we star because we truly enjoy a post

I am of the latter inclination

[toxic jungle]

poke - 4k (sarcastically), low quality image, video, or media in general

[teal thistle]

sentuwipinsiwatu
124
Origin: Portuguese - Cento E Vinte Quatro

[teal thistle]

wuwojitinmanna

[remote sun]

we can!!!! it happened!!!

wow

our curse has been lifted

[bleak siren]

I’m melting…

the curse got passed onto me

now I shall never be in the starboard..

[teal thistle]

anpatukan - goon, edge, mew, mog

[night vault]

that is a... wide range of meanings
what's the etymology

[finite chasm]

vomited on my computer reading this /srs

[fierce oyster]

/hopefullyhyperbole

[finite chasm]

i vomited a bit on it but i caught most of it in my hand

also it was actually shorter after reading that lol

shortly

like on the space next to the trackpad

[fierce oyster]

ah dang

[finite chasm]

wait omg

this is my 4th yutu this year

that's a record

[vocal raptor]

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[remote sun]

@finite chasm i am one of your beta orbiters

who is your second idol?

to me they are just a string of numbers

[bleak siren]

is that like people who star you

[finite chasm]

suwi Salinsen

[fierce oyster]

japan
to fail the what-do-you-call-japan test

[remote sun]

wait i just unlocked seeing suwi salinsen??

why??

??????

oh i reached level 32 toki pona, and unlocked suwi Salinsen and lipamanka

clearly

[gleaming thunder]

japan — yapping

[raw granite]

ike!

[finite chasm]

ni la ona li lon #1181641057985908797

[raw granite]

mi sona

[finite chasm]

what even is jama

[gleaming thunder]

suid

oh i thought that was a typo for squid

that would be funny

a word for pigs and squids

[obtuse geyser]

finally......

inner peace

back to þe good ol' days

[finite chasm]

wait omga..

now we just have to control ourselves and not star any nimi seen

just in case

[woeful iris]

esa - To be strange, but in a different way

Example: "mi nasa. taso, sina esa." (I'm weird, but you're weird in a different way)

[woeful iris]

from ESA, European space agency

[light canyon]

palijante
from TP "pali ante"
to be built different

mi palijante taso
"I'm just built different"

[rapid cipher]

ma Nokija - chechnya

toki

mi no no toki inli

sorry

i dont speak tp ):

[gilded loom]

nokija - to use the wrong emoji while creating a nimisin

[light canyon]

Nokia is a finnish word iirc

[gilded loom]

japonka - friend, from toki pona “jan po(n/k)a”. ALT. a japanese woman, from polish “japonka” meaning “japanese woman”

[quiet python]

yes but using "nokia" to refer to all mobile phones that aren't smart phones is english

i think

[gleaming thunder]

nokija is telephone type independent

[teal thistle]

kakaloto - a number over 9000

[night vault]

ALT: a number over 8000, depending on which dub you're using

[teal thistle]

Brazilian Portuguese?

[night vault]

there are multiple english dubs, some with 9000, some with 8000

[teal thistle]

In my country they dubbed into "over 8000"

In japanese it's over 8000 too?

[night vault]

8000 is the more faithful translation iirc, dragonball z kai english dub did 8000

[gleaming thunder]

the alternate reality where it was universally dubbed as 8000

[light canyon]

over 10,000!!!!

[night vault]

1006

[teal thistle]

mukunwakosipijosunita - the game of "green light red light" from squid game.

Origin:
Mugunghwa Kkoci Pieott Seumnida
( 무궁화 꽃이 피었 습니다 )

[timber pulsar]

sunokule - the game of "green light red light" but not from squid game

[woeful iris]

ketewe - To keyboard smash, a keyboard smash (alternative meaning: A keyboard)

• tan QWERTY

[teal thistle]

Should be "kuwesi"

[night vault]

kasusetekelewetekeninumiko -
to qwertyuiop in a nasa way
< qazwsxedcrfvtgnyhnujmikolp

[teal thistle]

keso - cheese
Origin: Queso (Spanish)

[chrome flame]

tuwensituwensi — 2021 ALT 2022 ALT 2023 ALT 2024 ALT 2025

[remote sun]

tuwensituwensiwan, tuwensituwensitu,

[teal thistle]

o jo e tuwensituwensipa pona

[rapid cipher]

nokija
ETYMOLOGY 1
from chechen "Нохчийчоь"
chechnya

mi jan pi ma Nokija
"i am chechen"

ETYMOLOGY 2
from english "nokia"
dumbphone

nokija li pakala ala
"nokia's not broken"

fixed?

[remote sun]

the second one should be "nokija li pakala ala"

[woeful iris]

Wouldn't the second example meant "a broken non-nokia"

[rapid cipher]

i was half-asleep in toki pona about 2 weeks ago

[woeful iris]

I'm guessing you mean "nokija li pakala ala"

[rapid cipher]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE USED A UPPERCASE LETTER IN AN OFFICIAL TP WORD

and edited it

[woeful iris]

Autocorrect

[spare star]

hi

[rapid cipher]

:soweli:

[timber pulsar]

panta - complement, complementary, compliment, complimentary

from toki pona: pona, pana, ante

complimentary wine and cheese complements (compliments are complementary) - panta pi moku panta (panta li panta a)

[trail cape]

pantalon - pants ALT truly equal, truly complimentary
Tagalog - pantalon

[light canyon]

sisi
from English "cis" or English "skirt"
the masculine urge to wear feminine clothes, ALT; to be still cis

example: mi sisi, mi sisi
I want to wear a skirt, still cis tho

[gleaming thunder]

sissy

[light canyon]

cis-y

[fierce oyster]

si
from english "cis" or english "she"
the masculine urge to be referred to with feminine pronouns, alternatively, to still be cis
"mi si, taso mi si": "i want to be called she, still cis tho"

[gleaming ravine]

nimi mi li "si ke Kapo" tan ni

[chrome flame]

kijete — cat

[keen dirge]

pitole - broad exclamation - fuck, oh my god, go away, i dont care
from Polish “ja pierdolę” - fuck

[woeful iris]

bazowane

[teal thistle]

kijete - Spiral
(s)anta - Tail
kalu - Bear

[fierce oyster]

tenpo santa
the end of the year

[light canyon]

incredible

[timber pulsar]

tonko - to sound hollow

onomatopoeic origin

[dull thorn]

sisi - non trans unsaturated fats

[teal thistle]

sipiti - brainrot content
Origin: Skibidi

[remote sun]

no ti in toki pona 💥

[night vault]

kipisi

[teal thistle]

wuwojiti moment

sutopatikuna

[remote sun]

alexandre baudry 💥

[teal thistle]

kenkawu - Kangaroo
Origin: Kangaroo

[remote sun]

wuwojiti 💥

[teal thistle]

jipi - Yipee
Origin: Yipee

[remote sun]

wuwojiti 💥

[gleaming thunder]

women — coffee
<- ENG women ☕

[remote sun]

"pi" is not allowed in toki pona smhsmh

[gleaming thunder]

me when there's no piing allowed in toki pona 😔

[teal thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/sds-gif-26103598

[gleaming thunder]

precisely

[remote sun]

jan ni li women

women - we
tan toki Putonwa wo men (i can't find the 3rd tone on my keyboard)

[gleaming thunder]

wǒ men

[remote sun]

thanks

[brave tapir]

k - changes the tense from past imperfect to future perfect

[light canyon]

cis
from Toki Pona "sisi"
relating to someone who's gender identity matches their biological sex

[viral night]

pon
from ENG phonk
phonk, mango

[mortal turret]

"pon a, pon a, pon a, pon a"
mango, mango, mango, mango

[viral night]

BOIII WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT TOKI PONA

[gleaming thunder]

punto — point (all meanings of English point)
<- ESP punto "point"

[rapid cipher]

i wanna see how toki pona turns into with these nimi sin added

lets start with "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

[rapid cipher]

ponka
alternative for "pon"

[chrome flame]

ali — additional, supplementary, copying something existing (from #toki-ali)

[timber pulsar]

ale~namako merger when

[late fox]

epi - wanting to sleep, from english "sleepy" (sometimes abbreviated to "eepy")

[trail cape]

epipen - Epinephrine autoinjector
English - EpiPen

[woeful iris]

metantetamin - methamphetamine

[viral night]

lotepa
from ENG low taper (fade)
massive, popular

[unkempt yacht]

everyone - knows it, you've got, ulterior motives

and yes, it's pronounced like /e.ve.ry.o.ne/

[fierce oyster]

nobody know how to pronounce the y

[unkempt yacht]

in yupekosi, that is

but in everyone it's /y/

like ü

this is how you pronounce it (I used something called SynthV Studio Pro to make this .wav, but this is super expensive, it cost me 700 zł)

zł is Polish zloty

SynthV is a singing synthesizer but for the "e.ve.ry.o.ne" recording I bent the notes in a way that imitates speech

**everyone **- knows it, you've got, ulterior motives

so the line "everyone knows it, you've got ulterior motives" would be "jan ale li everyone, everyone e everyone"

(everyone is pronounced /e.ve.ry.o.ne/)

[gleaming thunder]

everüjone

[unkempt yacht]

it's like everüone

without j

(yes, I'm aware the 2 vowels next to each other technically breaks Toki Pona phonotactics, but the word already has a **v **and r which aren't toki pona letters, so... who cares)

[gleaming thunder]

the transition from y to o will bring about a ɥ

but then again it’s a synth so it doesn’t have to abide to the inadequacies of human mouths

[remote sun]

why does it synthesise heavy breathing

[teal thistle]

kakawete - peanut
Origin: Spanish - Cacahuete

[night vault]

mani - peanut
Origin: Spanish - maní

[rapid pond]

alakite - peanut

origin - italian - arachide [ara'kide]

[finite chasm]

so you can have heavy breathing in your songs

[heavy basin]

lunpa

(lonsi unpa)

[timber pulsar]

tawala - stationary, (a piece of) stationery

from tawa + ala

i thought pencils couldn’t move - tawala li tawala anu seme?

[raw granite]

awen

[timber pulsar]

lon

[rapid cipher]

2-in-1!

WORD 1
kulema
from tp "kule ma" - nature color
meaning: green

WORD 2
kolisewi
from russian "коричневый" - broune
meaning: brown

[unique cloud]

kule pupu

[rapid cipher]

KOLISEWI

[rapid pond]

nosijola - nut

from italian nocciola

[light canyon]

kolupo
from Russian голубой (goluboy) - light blue
light blue
sini
from Russian синий (siniy) - dark blue
dark blue
using this nasin, "laso" now means exclusively green

[rapid cipher]

❤️ loje
🧡 nalanja
💛 jelo
💚 laso
🩵 kolupoja
💙 sini
💜 wijolete
🩷 waloje

WE HAVE COMPLETED THE RAINBOW

NOW SOWELI GO BRRR

[gilded loom]

sini pakola

[light canyon]

I knew someone was gonna say this

[light canyon]

*nalanja

kolupo sounds like an HAI typo of "kulupu" 😭

[rapid cipher]

🤍 walo
🖤 pimeja
🩶 kiwen

[chrome flame]

wijoleti - variant form of wuwojiti

[rapid cipher]

KOLORIS

🤍 walo
🖤 pimeja
🩶 kiwen

❤️ loje
🧡 nalanja
💛 jelo
💚 laso
🩵 kolupoja
💙 sini
💜 wijolete
🩷 waloje

🤎 kolisewi

[quiet python]

this is the word for pants/trousers in french!

[gleaming thunder]

this is the case for a lot of romance languages

[light canyon]

romance languages? like love! ooohhh are they romantic /j

[gleaming thunder]

it comes from a character from an Italian play called Pantalone

and his pants are particularly particular

[quiet python]

why do you think paris is called the city of love? duh

[gleaming thunder]

so thus it inspired a word for pants

[light canyon]

I feel like this was the other way around

[quiet python]

really? that's a crazy etymology

[gleaming thunder]

nope!

indeed!

[light canyon]

we have English pant tho

where does that come from

[gleaming thunder]

french pantalon

english has the longer more original pantaloons

which shortened to pants over time

[light canyon]

wow

[gleaming thunder]

indeed

colloquially likening things to particular styles that some character or person uses is by no means a modern invention

[gleaming thunder]

the other kind of pant (like when you're hot) is another unrelated french word

[timber pulsar]

peta exists for green, so 💚 could be peta and laso can be moved over to 💙 or 🩵
also unu for purple, so 💜 can be unu

peta is very obscure though

[feral dome]

peta

usage

sandbox (no book)

definition

green, greenish; verdant, alive; ecofriendly

see also

laso

⚠️ This proposed word is in the sandbox. It is not in use by the community.

[timber pulsar]

also kapesi for brown/gray

but tbh what hasn’t been nimisined already, you’re free to make your own nimisin for colors
that’s what this channel is for

[dull thorn]

🤍 kule suno
🖤 kule pi suno ala
🩶 kule kiwen
❤️ kule uta
🧡 kule uta en kule pi kasi moli
💛 kule pi kasi moli
💚 kule kasi
🩵 kule sewi
💙 kule pi telo suli
💜 kule uta en kule pi telo suli
🩷 kule uta pi suno suli
🤎 kule ma

[gleaming thunder]

kule pi ijo pi uta

(reference)

[gilded loom]

kule ijo kasi
(reference)

[raw granite]

🤍 tulu
🖤 tulu ala
🩶 tulu lili/kiku
❤️ tulu lupa muku
🧡 tulu kati lapi
💛 tulu kati lapi lili
💚 tulu kati
🩵 tulu tiku
💙 tulu tilu
💜 tulu tipi paka
🩷 tulu lupa muku lili
🤎 tulu kiku kati

[woeful iris]

stsii - to introduce a word with incompatible phonotactics into toki pona

from Esperanto scii, "to know"

[light canyon]

esperanto scii is pronounced /st͡si.i/, not /skiː/

[woeful iris]

Oh yeah I forgor

[jolly kindle]

stsipijo - general crab, one who likes to generalise, or just generally a statistically average person idk

from Scipio, roman military leader. and i kept thinking this was a name of a horse (maybe it is actually true)

[night vault]

aint that that gold robot from star war

[keen dirge]

ipi sleepy
from English eepy

[mortal turret]

ipi - to make something up (specially lyrics) | ALT dead meme
from english "turi ip ip"

[gleaming thunder]

wenometajenasama - mondegreen
<- ENG wenomechainasama “When I met you in the summer”

[fierce oyster]

gggggggyes

[teal thistle]

nwa - gangsta rap
Origin: N.W.A

[rapid pond]

telijo - american band tally hall and all related projects like miracle musical, joe hawley joe hawley and the rest of joe hawleys music, not a tranpoline and the rest of rob cantors music, sketches 3d, cojum dip, and T.H.I.S. (tally halls internet show)

origin - Tally Hall

[rapid cipher]

rock is still rock

[rapid cipher]

weteba - vertebrate
<- from english "vertebrate"

[fresh wave]

an - a shift / disruption in the timeline
from english ean, the 27th letter of the alphabet following a disruption in the timeline that caused it to be added due to the domino effect.

sitelen pona:

[mortal turret]

wepu - a special occurence
from english "vrrrpt", the 28th letter of the alphabet that was also added by a timeline disruption; it was later used a prize, unlike last time
sitelen pona:

[near flame]

ma pona pi toki pona - to have stars disabled in #1181641057985908797 but not in #1187029495203504168

[rapid cipher]

well...

ean can represent the same sound as ayn makes.

[woeful iris]

kokanu - marker to show that you are now speaking kokanu instead of tp

[keen dirge]

tupontu - something that has been expected for a long time but has not arrived, commonly resulting in loss of hope or jokes about the amount of time passed
from English 2.2, a Geometry Dash update that took four and a half goddamn years to release

[remote sun]

they're enabled now

[keen dirge]

POWE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[remote sun]

what

they are re-disabled

whaaa

[remote sun]

it was enabled here

[gleaming thunder]

it was a mistake

[light canyon]

I though ean was a ligature for "ea"

ie. "I am r[ean]ding the book" for "I am reading the book"

[fierce oyster]

this thread was so good they didn't want it flooding the starboard frfr

[mortal turret]

according to ian woodside "[it] makes the ean sound, like the Caribb(ean)"

i assume that means /iːn/ unless its specifically ⟨ean⟩

[remote sun]

i pronounce caribbean as the same as the name Ian

[mortal turret]

utala - laughter
from "uta-ala" in nasin nanpa font

[light canyon]

very real

[rapid cipher]

i really think ean/ein is ayn. because it really feels like it

[gilded loom]

kanapa - couch
<- Polish "kanapa" - couch

[woeful iris]

kanapa - sandwich
<- Polish "kanapka" - sandwich

[spring pivot]

apakasa - to sort alphabetically
<- Filipino "abakada" - the old alphabet sorting thing

[woeful iris]

apokolipu - dystopian novel, apocalypse story

• from English apocalypse and toki pona apoko (skull) + lipu (page)

[woeful iris]

Example: "lipu owe li apokolipu" - "Orwell's books are dystopian stories"

[teal thistle]

why not apakata ?

[spring pivot]

Oh yeah that could work

But, i like sa for da. Its a softer ta you know?

[light canyon]

samamijala
to take part in the famous class action law suit United States vs. Kendrick vs. Drake

[chrome flame]

sokolinlunpa - soko-linluwi merger, linluwi-olin merger, olin-unpa merger

[woeful iris]

sikepalisa - Discord

From name "Discord" -> "disk rod"

[rapid pond]

why not sikelinja - Discord, from "disk-cord"

[quiet python]

kawame makijato
'Starbucks'
origin: "caramel macchiato"
example sentence: "jan mute li wile ala pana e mani tawa kawame makijato"

[finite chasm]

linjani - Discord
from "dis cord"

[finite chasm]

actually this is fire

linjani

linjani

[gilded loom]

li nja ni

soweli li nja ni:
"mu :3"

[jolly kindle]

utala - Discord
from English "discord", literally

[finite chasm]

akesoweli - Discord
like uh. Discord from mlp (draconequus)

[night vault]

lipu - Discord
from English "Discord", the app

[remote sun]

but what about linluwi unpa merger?

(i have suggested that before)

[mortal turret]

tuwo - to troll | ALT to be one who knows

[woeful iris]

pona-unpa merger from English "this fucks"

[keen dirge]

ponpa - this fucks

[bleak siren]

**Sauerkraut ** - the meaning of life, the universe, and everything (according to ma pona pi musi lape)
from Dreams

(Cognate of [inta](#toki-ale message))

[night vault]

ma Sauerkraut = Albuquerque
(not because they have it there, but because it was very prominent in the song Albuquerque by Weird Al)

[spring pivot]

Way back when I was just a little bitty boy

[modest river]

**anpatu **- billion
from ithkuil avnaţr

[woeful iris]

tonsan - billion (short scale)
from Kokanu "con san", billion

[night vault]

oh god short vs long scale

just give the scientific notation smh my head

[gleaming thunder]

ma Sauerkraut would be the place where weird al lived as a little bitty boy

Albuquerque would be something else

[mortal turret]

amajikopalawepewetesanisawesawininkanteweselajolupiwantetawewajosowawewetesanewantelepepetejukelelewotelonkaneniwanontesiwikalisejupapowanikowakawakatutuje - normally meaningless on its own but means "albuquerque" when after ma

[timber pulsar]

akesala - first part (usually of a larger whole), the part that people know/smugly recite before they admit that they're not that familiar with it

from a + akesi + ala, the first three words when pu words are sorted alphabetically

[light canyon]

gvprtskvnj
to peel one's own kind
(note: since vowels were not written down by the ancient tokiponers, we approximate this words pronounciation as "gevpertesekavni")

[mortal turret]

kipupopupukasanawisantenuponepinkekanaka - bacteria
from kay(f)bob(t) kis(p)vug(b)bob(f)pus(b)fup(p)gav(p)san(t)ap(t)vlir(t)sang(b)des(p)nu(t)vom(b)e(f)vlim(p)kay(f)ga(f)sna(f)ga(f)

[jolly kindle]

likesike - rickroll, or alternatively, lickroll

TOK (jan/kalama) Like - Rick/the Lick, sike - a round object, or behaving as one

[gleaming ravine]

aaaaa musi kalama li awen
musi a

[late fox]

- the lack of meaning in a sentence, may be used to mean satirical or rhetorical statements/questions
from akward silence

note: the length is dependent on how akward it is

[remote sun]

good to know it's work or school the next day, tp semantic spaces are meant to be large after all

tp and kay(f)dan(f)san(t)ap(t)vlir(t)sang(b).... bop(t)veg... both are languagues with very large semantic spaces for words, but in 2 very different ways

[gleaming ravine]

lon

[timber pulsar]

yes i'm also glad that for poku and nipa it can be any type of puzzle

so "piece" doesn't have to necessarily be a physical piece

[gleaming thunder]

lumi also doesn’t say what kind of squid! or the color of hair for manta

[timber pulsar]

exactly

[gleaming thunder]

these jokes are very funny

ooh I should add the blorpy one

[light canyon]

jemese
an intense feeling of envy after discovering one of your friends is a member of the secret class of potato overlords ruling us all followed by a feeling of dread at the fact that you will never achieve your dreams of potatohood

[gleaming thunder]

lopi — the action of grabbing your very first slice of pizza of the day and your favorite topping tumbles off and falls onto the floor right as you’re taking a bite

lopi can also be used to describe the topping that fell off onto the floor

[light canyon]

incredible

where the hell do you get these ideas

[gleaming thunder]

david j. peterson

[light canyon]

what

I need more context

[gleaming thunder]

he’s particularly good at making oddly specific joke words

[timber pulsar]

this is too relatable

[light canyon]

okay but he isn't even a tokiponist

could you send a clip of say, lopi?

[gleaming thunder]

?

[light canyon]

do you come up with the words from things he did or things he said

[gleaming thunder]

the lexical evolution section of the evolution chapter of The Art of Language Invention by David J. Peterson brings up like 6 fictional words that are overly specific for the sake of talking about naturalistic semantics

[light canyon]

ohhhhh

I thought you were talking about someone else
my brain is tired

[timber pulsar]

wakale - last part (usually of a larger whole), the slightly well-known but still quite obscure part that most people don't remember, and thus a better test to see if one legitimately is able to recite the whole | ALT to recite alphabetically sorted pu words in their entirety

from wawa + weka + wile, the last three words when pu words are sorted alphabetically

[light canyon]

y
(relating to) the god of Y-ism, the religion which diefies the letter Y specifically in Toki Pona
example:
Y LI SEWI. ALE LI LON ANPA Y.
Y IS OUR GOOD. WE ARE ALL BELOW Y!

[timber pulsar]

minsi - to recite pu (and/or ku words) words in their entirety but not alphabetically

from mi + sina + ni, the first three words in the tokirap

[light canyon]

jamute
calque of English "Mormon"
relating to relatively small religions and cults branching from Judaism or Christianity, especially those formed in the US in the past 300 years

[ebon mantle]

akesala - to recite pu (without ku words) in their entirety and also alphabetically

from a + akesi + ala, the first three words in pu, when sorted alphabetically

[timber pulsar]

ni a

lawa sama a

[ebon mantle]

akesalasaleli - to recite pu (with ku words) in their entirety and also alphabetically

from a + akesi + ala + alasa + ale + ali, the first six words in ku, when sorted alphabetically

[night vault]

akesi - a cool word (:

[ebon mantle]

kesi - cool word (:

[timber pulsar]

alijepin - to recite the linku list of words without the core words alphabetically

from ali + apeja + epiku + isipin, the first four words in linku without the core words

[ebon mantle]

where's the isi part of isipin

[timber pulsar]

gone

[ebon mantle]

reduced to ijo kipisi

[timber pulsar]

i also moved the e in apeja to after the j

to make room for ali and not ale

[light canyon]

tanpa
to form Greater America, because who needs free healthcare when you have Liberty Freedom Justice and Trump, to express intent in annexing an ally

[ebon mantle]

sike - interjection used to troll someone

from toki pona sike, used to refer to circular objects

[night vault]

i thought the e was for epiku
alijepin:
ali + j + e + pin
ALI + apeJa + Epiku + isiPIN

[timber pulsar]

aken

()

[timber pulsar]

both, the pi is also shared between epiku and isipin

[night vault]

tanpa - some city in some southeastern state of the USA

[light canyon]

real

[gleaming thunder]

ewate — the action of forgetting the details of a desire during your free time that you had daydreamed earlier in the day when you were busy at work or school and couldn’t accomplish said desire then

[ebon mantle]

akesilsnptujwomARPy - to recite the linku words alphabetically, but when you don't want to repeat anything

oh wait

[timber pulsar]

tanpa - to meddle with, to disrupt, to imbalance

from english tamper

[ebon mantle]

there's P and R

[timber pulsar]

there is also Puerto and Rico

[light canyon]

🚨 : to make a big blunder pokalah

(note: pronounced /pou'ka.læx/)

[ebon mantle]

there

[timber pulsar]

i didn't realize m was so late

not until jami?

[night vault]

inpa - odd number, really, ANYTHING that isn't an even number. i is inpa. π is inpa. you (presumably) are inpa
< Spanish impar

tu li inpa ala

[light canyon]

I am an even number

[night vault]

well then sina inpa ala

[gleaming thunder]

perfect

[light canyon]

I am an even number as in "I [am (an) even] {an} number", not "I am [an even number]"

[night vault]

what

[light canyon]

"I'm even a number"

[night vault]

well are you an even number

[timber pulsar]

tpot "even i'm a prime" moment

[night vault]

are you an integer divisible by 2

[gleaming thunder]

if you had a modulus operation performed on you with 2 as the divisor, would you return 0?

[light canyon]

yeah that's what I was referencing

two type of people, the mathematician and the programmer

[light canyon]

mathematician:

[light canyon]

programmer:

[gleaming thunder]

so true

[night vault]

if you were the input here, would you get "par"?

import java.util.Scanner;
public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args){
    Scanner scn = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.print("Dame un numero, cabrón: ");
    int inp = scn.nextInt();
    if (inp%2 == 0) System.out.println("par");
    else System.out.println("impar");
  }
}

if not (e.g. you got impar or an error), sina inpa

[gleaming thunder]

gimme a number, superhero /j

ohh par y impar son palabras españolas

hoy aprendí

[night vault]

flecicitanioes

[gleaming thunder]

vergación

[timber pulsar]

operator % cannot be applied to java.lang.pisowe

[night vault]

la java.lang.pisowe li inpa

[timber pulsar]

kapon - superhero

from spanish cabrón (because that's what cabrón means)

[light canyon]

I am NOT written in JavaScript
jan Pisowe is written in RUST and JAVA

[night vault]

java

not javascript

[timber pulsar]

it is written in the coffee language

[light canyon]

oh

[night vault]

i dont know the coffee lore, is java a type of coffee

[timber pulsar]

i think it's [sic]

[light canyon]

I am really tired I should not be thinking to hard about anything

[timber pulsar]

ona li moli tan telo wawa ala

[gleaming thunder]

no it’s just like… uhh… idk enough about what Java exceptions exist

[night vault]

e.g. you got impar or an error

[gleaming thunder]

% between types “mpptp.Pisowe” and “int” is undefined

[light canyon]

kisa Pisowe's API is written in JavaScript tho

[night vault]

la ona li inpa

[gleaming thunder]

actually I don’t think you can use operations like that on non-primitives?

we have to invest in a less sexy instance method called like add or something

python is cool you can defined built in operators’ behavior between types in a class

e.g. in this case it would call for the user to define a __mod__ function for the Pisowe class which works with the built in %

[night vault]

Kilo.getGender() returns true

[light canyon]

real

I usually use camel case in python and my friend thinks it's cursed

[timber pulsar]

as someone who has only been learning java for three months python sounds too good (/positive)
what do you mean you don't need semicolons

[night vault]

camel case isn't cursed at all tho

[light canyon]

I'm well aware

[gleaming thunder]

yeah I use camel case a lot in python lol

[gleaming thunder]

it is yeah

[night vault]

as someone who has been learning java for only 3 months, i fucking miss python

[gleaming thunder]

java is cute in its own way

[night vault]

iirc you CAN use semicolons in python to put multiple commands on one line, right? can you also one-line if statements?
ive submitted java assignments as a single line because it's funny, but is that also possible in python

[gleaming thunder]

yeah

Python does have ;

[rapid cipher]

the correct romanisation is siso

[gleaming ravine]

“ti” is a banned syllable

I guess there’s kind of a justification for lipu?
li/dis - voiced alveolar followed by an at least somewhat close front unrounded vowel and maybe another consonant
pu/cord - unvoiced plosive that is labial or may or may not be labialized by the rounded vowel after, followed by a rounded close back vowel and maybe some more consonants

[gleaming thunder]

the correct romanization is

[rapid cipher]

siso.

lipu Siso

[remote sun]

kayfbopt also has really long really precise words

i'll find some

sikasika this word

[gleaming thunder]

oh hey it’s the word jan Misali showed off that had an erroneous hanzi in it

[remote sun]

what i'm wondering is if it had hanzi in it how did he know how to pronounce it

he pronounces it with the underlying ipa

(also he had 2 hanzi words)

[gleaming thunder]

yeah

i mean this is one of them

I’m pretty sure this is one of the rick roll words

[remote sun]

possibly

i believe not actually

because this word actually only has one definition

so doesn't fit into babel

unless the bible added lovers to the babel story in the recent patch notes

toki pona?????

[dull thorn]

tepinpajotajepijopintalalesepintinpakesepapintinpa - to check if something is inpa ALT to use python ALT to write bad code
<-
def inpa(ijo):
try:
if ijo % 2 == 0:
print("ala")
else:
print("inpa")
except:
print("inpa")

[rapid cipher]

sik'asik'a
this word needs to have ejectives

[gilded loom]

let's nimisin all the words in this text so that it has meaning

[light canyon]

is this Toki Pona? or English for that matter???

[light canyon]

so
that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow
to
to eat cheese, cheese, relating to cheese, to drink milk, milk, relating to dairy products
atone
the action of lanpaning soko exactly as carried out by a kijetesantakalu

so to atone - that cheese-related feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow which also lanpans soko as though it were a kijetesantakalu tonsi

[gilded loom]

amazing

like - particle that makes the sentence passive and marks the noun clause after it as the subject (patient)

papa - potato

[light canyon]

so to atone like papa - potatoes are that cheese-related feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow which also lanpans soko as though it were a kijetesantakalu tonsi

[rapid cipher]

what happens if a nimi sin crosses another nimi sin?

[gleaming ravine]

ona tu li kama wan li kama nimi "aka"

[raw granite]

nimi nimi sin sin

[chrome flame]

an — person, being (li is dropped)
awesome — to get home late at night
anon — something want but don’t want once you get it; something uncertain or bittersweet; in an emotionally ambiguous way

[rapid cipher]

awesome - epiku
anon - unknown/unregistered person

[chrome flame]

well considering the previous words the nimisin apparently don't have anything in common with the english words

[knotty pier]

pike - a type of fish
from English - pike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike (fish))

[finite chasm]

what's ja

[light canyon]

more men > jan mute > janmute > jamute

[finite chasm]

oh wow

i thought it had something to do with jan

but mon only made me think of jamaican creole

[spare star]

reminds me of that camp song mormons have called more men

kisa sin Pisowe pi sike sin ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) more men > jan mute > janmute > jamute

[mortal turret]

sike - particle indicating that the previous word isnt a typo and is intentional

[gleaming ravine]

mu sike Kapo :3

[remote sun]

from [sic], is that write [sic]?

[mortal turret]

yez [sic]

[rapid cipher]

ok so it turns into nasal i

[gleaming thunder]

inku — to buy food for someone, but they don't like it, which prompts them to throw it away somewhere and then stomp with anger all the way to a new location

[timber pulsar]

sike - particle indicating that the previous sentence/phrase is a joke/lie

from english sike/psych/psyche

perhaps it should be sake but sike looks better

[gleaming thunder]

suke — particle indicating a typo

ALT toma

[reef marsh]

and it fits the joke better too

[dull thorn]

nime - typo

[jolly kindle]

sike - two objects which both get angrier

[severe magnet]

bill wurtz reference?

[jolly kindle]

lon

[light canyon]

pisin
a bird, a language, a bird language

[chrome flame]

lon (sitelen pona: ) — a spherical magnet levitating above a superconductor

[timber pulsar]

sitelen pona must be colored blue

[mortal turret]

tenponi - to misread "bad nimisin" as "bird nimisin"

[woeful iris]

tala - fox, especially a cute one
tan nimi pi toki Iwisi "תעלא"

[fierce oyster]

this is gonna be my new headnoun

[night vault]

sowepi - fop

[fierce oyster]

truuuuuu

[remote sun]

or a swimming pool, or to... pana e telo jaki

[uneven plaza]

onijala - don't do this

[remote sun]

onijala - not an oni

[mortal turret]

onionala - not an onion

[gleaming thunder]

asa — until, up to
<- ESP hasta of similar meaning

[night vault]

ta - synonym of asa
< ESP 'ta being a shortening of hasta

[gleaming thunder]

oh true

[timber pulsar]

kosi a

[spare star]

o toki "sike" lon tenpo NI A

jan Pulepo ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) sike - particle indicating that the previous sentence/phrase is a…

[gleaming thunder]

kanu — EO mal-
<- Kokanu kokanu “Kokanu” corrupted into TOK ko kanu

ko kanu — unchanging, standardized

[mortal turret]

kanu - literally "EO mal-"

the word means "EO mal-"

kanu li pona tawa mi = i like EO mal-

[spare star]

tenpo ni la toki kokanu li ko mute

kolisin ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) kanu — EO mal-
<- Kokanu kokanu “Kokanu” corrupted into TOK *ko…

[gleaming thunder]

tenpo ale la ni

[spare star]

tenpo kama la ona li kama kiwen

kolisin ↩️

[Reply to:](#1181641057985908797 message) tenpo ale la ni

ante pi nasin toki li kama pini

[bleak siren]

pakola sike

[remote sun]

say [sic] right now

[remote sun]

ko-ante merger??

[charred pawn]

wuwojitinmia

[chrome flame]

wuwojitinmanna

||wait how does that count as kokosila ala what||