title_body: How to say, 'Haters gonna Hate' in Toki Pona The closest I could find was
  
  
    jan ike | awen pali e ona | pilin ike tawa
    enemy | continue | hate
  
  
  But I've not figured out if that the right way to combine those phrases
upvoted_answer: The consensus answer (thanks Oliver Mason) for how to translate Haters gonna hate into Toki Pona is the following:
   tenpo ale la jan ike li ike
  
  Tenpo ale la translates as at all times and captures the sense of inevitability in haters gonna hate in English. It also serves to rule out other possible readings such as the tautological bad people are bad. Here ike is used as &quot;commit evil acts&quot;, one of which is presumably hating.
  
  I interpret Haters gonna hate as a phrase for dismissing all criticism as inevitable or unfounded regardless of its content.
  I don't think hate in this context literally refers to feeling hatred/enmity, but to hating on, which is not quite the same thing and covers things like insults and ridicule.
  I think we strip out a lot of the detail of haters gonna hate and get something reasonable.
  jan    ike    li   ike
  person bad    PRED bad
  bad    people are  bad
  
  Since jan ike is so much broader than bad person in English, I think this does a good job of conveying the intent of the expression. People predisposed to ridicule or insult you are going to ridicule or insult you regardless of what you do.
  
  The right way to combine the phrases you gave above would be
  jan ike li awen pali e pilin ike tawa.
  
  However, there are a few constructions in there I'm not sure about
  li   awen  pali
  PRED keep    do
  
  I don't know whether you can use awen like this as an auxiliary verb of sorts to mark habitual or progressive aspect, as you seem to be doing here.
  pilin   ike  tawa
  feeling bad  towards
  
  I don't know whether you can use an objectless preposition attributively like this. My guess is yes since prepositions besides e (if analyzed as a preposition) do not form a distinct word class in Toki Pona. I'm having trouble finding an explicit citation for the non-existence of prepositions as a distinct word class, this is the closest I can find.