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Insulting people is not nice. Hurting someone's feelings happens when portraying them unfairly, voicing aggression or intent to harm, breaking someone's trust, making accusations, lying, talking over them, being dismissive, and many more ways. There is no go-to insult in toki pona; insults would have to be made up on the spot. The most effective insult is one that applies personally to the addressee.
 
==Exclamations==
==Reaction to external stimuli==
Quick reactions[[Interjections|exclamations]] to let off steam are made up on the spot, fitting the situation. Examples include:
 
* {{tp|ike}} — when something generally bad happens
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* {{tp|pakala}} — when something doesn't go as planned or breaks
* {{tp|a}} — as a general reaction to anything
* {{tp|mu}} — to voice an unwordyunwordable response out of frustration
* {{tp|kala}} — for when your hovercraft is filled with too many eels
 
==Emphasis==
Instead of adding words associated with negative qualities, the word {{tp|[[a]]}} covers most cases of emphasis. In specific cases, {{tp|mute}}, {{tp|wawa}}, {{tp|suli}}, and sometimes also {{tp|namako}} abdand {{tp|kin}} get used.
 
==Code-switching==
Toki Pona makes no significant distinction between an informal and formal register, so idiomatic swearing would not be used for {{w|code-switching}}.
 
==ProfanityIn in official''Official Toki Pona books''==
There have been some mentions of profanity in the ''[[Official Toki Pona]]'' series, particularly for the translations in {{ku|en}}.
 
==={{tp|jaki}}===
In ''[[Toki Pona Dictionary|lipu ku]]'', {{tp|[[jaki]]}} is translated as "crap" with a frequency score of three (41–60% of participants), and as "shit" and "bullshit" with a frequency of 2 (21–40% of participants)<ref name="ku">[[jan{{cite Sonja|Lang, Sonja]] (2021). . Illustrated by [[Vacon Sartirani]]. ''Tawhid''. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0978292362</nowiki>.ku}}</ref>
 
==={{tp|pakala}}===
In ''[[Toki Pona Dictionary|lipu ku]]'', {{tp|[[pakala]]}} is translated as "damn", "goddamn", and "heck" with a frequency score of four (61–80% of participants), as "fuck" and "fucking" with a frequency of 3 (41–60% of participants), and as "crap" with a frequency of 2 (21–40%).<ref name="ku" />
 
==={{tp|unpa}}===
In ''[[Toki Pona Dictionary|lipu ku]]'', {{tp|[[unpa]]}} is translated as "fucking" with a frequency of 3 (41–60% of participants), and "fuck" with a frequency of 2 (21-40%).<ref name="ku" /> BecauseHowever, "fucking"this andalso "fuck"covers arethe being used to mean sexual relations and not as swearsliteral, somenon-taboo maysense argueof these"fuck" usesto aremean not"sex"; profanity. In addition,using {{tp|unpa}} is not seen as a tabooprofane wordexclamation comparedis towidely howconsidered ''fuck''a is taboo over sex[[calque]].
 
==References==
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