i didn't know til last night that toki pona is supposed to be like this super positive thing that helps rewire your brain to see things more happily or whatevs

that's really cool, i can get behind that, good vibes are good

and hacking your brain to be happy is even better

like apparently there's not really a way to describe things negatively in that language lol

420, toki pona question 

i'm super curious

since it's supposed to be this super positive language and everything

how do you say "smoke weed every day" in toki pona?

i couldn't find like an auto-translator for it anywhere so i've cracked open this page

tokiponadictionary.herokuapp.c

i wrote down a list of words that could relate

kon - breathe
sewi - high
pona - positive
kasi - herb
laso - green (but also blue)
tenpo - time
ale - everything

so "kon kasi" would be "breathe herb" i think

but how would you say "every day"?

would it be like... "kon pona kasi ale tenpo?"

"breathe positive herb all the time?"

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re: 420, toki pona question 

@vantablack "la" is called a "context marker" and is usually used to set off things like that

so you could start the sentence with "tenpo ale la" (adjectives come after nouns in toki pona)

"tenpo ale la kon e kasi pona" would be a simple translation - "breathe the good herb every day"

re: 420, toki pona question 

@vantablack oh wait, "o" is used for imperatives

so it'd be more like "tenpo ale la o kon e kasi pona"

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