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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- lipu tenpo published issue kati tiki tu lili, written in the hyperminimal tokiponido tuki tiki.
2024
- 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.[1]
- ma pona pi toki pona rebranded to a tuki tiki server named kiku tiki tuki tiki.[2]
- sona pona ran a banner on the main page claiming that the policy for word articles would become more limiting and that "Big Otter is watching", referencing the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.[3]
- The horror anthology zine lipu monsuta released kijetesantakalu monsuta, a special issue with humorous and absurd horror stories.[4]
- 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.[5]
References
- ↑ 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 posted in the
#ijo-sin
channel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 31 March 2024. - ↑ (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.