feeling the need to ramble about this cuz this word has been living in my head rent-free! as someone who's still learning toki pona this word immediately stuck out to me, for the obvious reason (lol it's really long) and because the definition loosely extends to include red pandas (that's me!). but i also can't get over how good of an inherent joke it is.
the first layer is that it's a really long word in toki pona, the language that's supposed to be really simple and keeps words short. the next layer is the meaning, which is both REALLY specific (which ruins most of its potential usage), yet it's ALSO really vague at the same time?? you can point at an animal and say "kijetesantakalu!!" and you've just used 7 syllables to refer to an entire family classification of animals. you'd have a much better chance of just saying "soweli" without having the kijetesantakalu running away mid-word. cursory research also shows that it has basically no similarity to existing translations of "raccoon" so there's a high possibility that most people will just have to completely commit the word to memory unless they just happen to be in proximity of a kinkajou.
in summary, "kijetesantakalu" could literally not be any more perfect and that's why it's my nickname in one of my discord servers
(also i'm happy that cohost has become my ramble place instead of tw*tter especially since i don't have much art to share here right now lol, hope yall dont mind)
