Appendix:Toki Pona/kokosila
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Toki Pona
Glyph origin
| sitelen pona | 
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| sitelen sitelen | 
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- sitelen pona: From toki and the slash mark, creating a no symbol.
Etymology
From Esperanto krokodili (“to speak a non-Esperanto language among Esperanto speakers”). Coined by Sonja Lang in 2020.
Pronunciation
Verb
kokosila
- (rare, sometimes humorous, transitive, intransitive) to speak a language other than Toki Pona in an environment where Toki Pona is more appropriate
Usage notes
- This word was created by the Toki Pona community after the publication of Sonja Lang's book Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014). It has since been recognized as essential vocabulary (nimi ku suli) by Lang in her 2021 publication The Toki Pona Dictionary.
- According to Linku, this word is classified as "obscure", being used by 26% of respondents in a poll from October 2024.