#new nimi sin
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hi there! I would like to direct you to lipamanka's fantastic essay "lanpan and nimisin". To put it simply, I think introducing a nimisin such as kuki would be bad for toki pona, and lipamanka does a great job explaining why. https://lipamanka.gay/essays/lanpan
you could say that about using the word kijetesantakalu too
that is, assuming that this word is just for the musis
is musi taso, and it's been around for many years. Also the hyper specificity of
is the musi; kuki is not hyperspecific. If it's a joke it's not a funny joke, and if it's serious (which I actually suspect it is, OP is welcome to contradict) then it's a terrible word
Also the statement "let's get this on lipu Linku" just rubs me the wrong way, like you're only coming up with a nimisin because you want to be canonized or smth
I personally think that it is quite musi nasa to have a word called kuki that means cookie
Given the number of serious nimisin proposals I've seen that are just direct transliterations and calques of English words it doesn't seem particularly nasa or musi to me
the word was originally posted in bad nimisin
It's a joke word
maybe people make those proposals seriously, but I would never take them seriously