nasa

[jnpoJuwan]

nasa

sona pu

ADJECTIVE unusual, strange; foolish, crazy; drunk, intoxicated

sona Linku pi toki Inli

unusual, strange; silly; drunk, intoxicated

sona Linku pi toki pona

nasin pi tenpo mute ala; ijo pi sona ala

sona ku

weird⁵, unusual⁵, strange⁵, odd⁵, drunk⁴, silly³, wild³, ridiculous², psychoactive², nonsense², confuse², suspicious²

sona sin

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my goal for nasa is to deemphasise the connotation of 'weird' for speakers
to start, I like @lipamanka's essay on their dictionary

The semantic space of nasa contains deviations from what's considered normal. If most people have blue hair and one person has green hair, that one person is nasa. If someone grows ten types of herbs and a single carnivorous plant, then that carnivorous plant is nasa. If most people don't grow herbs, someone who does grow herbs is nasa. What's considered "normal" here is completely reliant on context. A clown isn't "nasa" if everyone around them is also a clown. Nothing is inherently nasa. The nasa-ness of all objects will change along with context.
source: toki pona dictionary

along with the meaning of 'outside the norm', nasa also has the meaning of drunk, or in some way on drugs (ku data: psychoactive²)

(screenshot taken at around 2023-09-23 21:30 UTC)

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question, does nasa pass the monsutatesu? according to the ku data, it means confuse²
'mi nasa e sina' can mean 'I confuse you' and 'I make you weird'

[RetSamys]

If nasa is a monsutatesu word, does it "fail" or "pass"? Anyway, yes, it can mean both of these