April Fools' Day
This is a list of practical jokes and hoaxes by Tokiponists and Toki Pona communities that have occurred on April Fools' Day (1 April).
2009 edit
- jan Sonja coined kijetesantakalu as a joke word. This also led to Alexandre Baudry coining sutopatikuna in response, and to April Fools' Day sometimes being associated with kijetesantakalu, as is evident in later practical jokes.
2021 edit
- jan Sonja created nasin kijetesantakalu, a grammar allowing for all possible word orders permuting subject, verb, and object.
- lipu tenpo published issue nanpa ala, which as the title suggests contains nothing but the front cover.
2022 edit
- Several Toki Pona communities participated in Reddit's r/place social experiment, collaborating to create pixel art on a large public canvas.
- lipu tenpo published issue nanpa kijetesantakalu, mostly consisting of repetitions of the word kijetesantakalu.
2023 edit
- lipu tenpo published issue kati tiki tu lili, written in the hyperminimal tokiponido tuki tiki.
- ma pona pi toki pona rebranded to a Lojban server named jbobau jbogu'e (lit. 'Lojban Lojbanistan').[1]
- jan Kekan San published the first episode of a supposed "Learn Esperanto!" video series, teaching only the word herbevitisto ("chronically online", lit. 'occupational grass avoider'; see "touch grass"). For the video, he changed his avatar to a green Power Moon with a necktie, created by jan Tekinowi.[2]
2024 edit
- jan Kekan San published the video "tomo pi walo loje", a shaggy-dog story about three people who each stay at a pink house full of pink objects after their vehicles break down.[3]
- ma pona pi toki pona rebranded to a tuki tiki server named kiku tiki tuki tiki.[4]
- sona pona:
- The main page ran a banner claiming that only articles about Láadan were allowed on the wiki and that "Big Otter is watching", referencing the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.[5]
- The pronunciation of yupekosi was listed as [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼupekosi].
- The horror anthology zine lipu monsuta released kijetesantakalu monsuta, a special issue with humorous and absurd horror stories.[6]
- jan Ke Tami published the video "yupekosi: No one knows how to pronounce the y", a compilation of different speakers finding different and creative ways to pronounce the "y" in yupekosi.[7]
- lipu tenpo published issue nanpa lili, a small foldable zine with articles about small things.
References edit
- ↑ jan Kekan San [@gregdan3]. (1 April 2023). Message in
#ijo-sin
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 1 April 2023. - ↑ jan Kekan San. (1 April 2023). "I, We, You, He, She, They, It, Also They, - Learn Esperanto! Lesson 1". jan Kekan San [@gregdan3d]. YouTube. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ↑ jan Kekan San. (1 April 2024). "tomo pi walo loje" [The Pink House] (in Toki Pona). jan Kekan San [@gregdan3d]. YouTube. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ↑ akesi Jan [@janetblackquill]. (31 March 2024). Message in
#ijo-sin
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 31 March 2024. - ↑ sona pona editors. (1 April 2024). Main Page. sona pona. Revisions 14997 through 15009.
- ↑ (1 April 2024). "kijetesantakalu monsuta". lipu monsuta. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ↑ jan Ke Tami. (1 April 2024). "yupekosi: No one knows how to pronounce the y". jan Ke Tami [@IAmSamys]. YouTube. Retrieved 2 April 2024.