Thursday, May 19, 2011

I know what that's like

Mamihlapinatapai: "A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”.

                         -from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego,
                         considered the world's most succinct word and
                         considered one of the most difficult words to translate

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