jaki

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meaning

disgusting, unclean, unsanitary, toxic, repulsive, rotten

semantic space · lipamanka

jaki talks about unpleasant sensory experiences. This can be any of the senses, internal or external. This could be bad smells, repulsive flavors, gross images, earshattering noises, and horrible textures. But it could also be internal sensory experiences such as nausea. jaki can be used to refer to other things that aren't usually sensory, and it should be. But be careful, because using jaki will frame something through a sensory lens. If someone is acting bad, such as bullying or harassing someone else, you can describe their actions as jaki, but doing so makes their actions framed as unpleasant in a sensory way.

Some people reject the idea that jaki is inherently unpleasant. For example, here is a quote from jan Ke Tami (all rights reserved to jan Ke Tami)

jan Ke Tami: I keep thinking about the "jaki pona" zine that finds beauty in things that for sure are in some way unpleasant
jaki has enough space for things it describes to be unpleasant in one way... and also pleasant in a different way

ku translations

dirty93 trash89 gross87 garbage86 mess82 disgusting79 junk75 bacteria67 nasty62 crap47 toxic47 waste47 infection44 disease37 shit33 virus30 bullshit27 pollution27 illness20

pu verbatim

  • ADJECTIVE disgusting, obscene, sickly, toxic, unclean, unsanitary

usage

core · 100% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

English · yucky

coined by jan Sonja

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kala Asi

jan Lakuse

sitelen pona

jaki jaki

a scribble

sitelen sitelen

jaki sitelen sitelen

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ucsur

U+F1910

luka pona

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