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mamihlapinatapai

noun • 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. The word is from the Yaghan language.

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∞02:51 pm, BY fiddlersgreen[468 notes]

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    person alive who speak that lenguage makes me trully sad. Cristina Calderón, please hold on there.
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    nightmarebrunette:machineryonite: paganpoetry: bellavita: wordjournal:snee, Wikipedia
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    for an awkward situation.
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    A wonderful word, however I cannot find...clear decisive guide
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    i learned a new word :D
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    somethingchanged:
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    [vianightmarebrunette:
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    ah! this word could probably define my life
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    OMG how do you pronounce it because I need to be able to use it.
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    Oui, c’est moi.
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    I actually started a poem about this word, & dying languages, last year. Never finished it.
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    noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that...other will initiate something...
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    word for this - I wonder if this is too long
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    I have been looking for this word for too long. But I didn’t know what search query in Google would bring me my answer.
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    from ledger&deconstruct&stirfrynation&wordjournal: noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other...
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    I’d love to learn how to pronounce this. ..also the situation can be avoided by hitting the other person
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    This was what we did during class all last summer. Tuesday and Thursdays from 9 to 3 we’d
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    Hello true life:...pathetic Lauren Miller story.
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    i remember reading about this word in a poem a few years ago, and ever since then i’ve always attempted to explain to...
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    been there done that. aka: a term my friend dorothy coined as “liking out”.
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    Sexy time? Oh, I...believe it is so. Hahaha… :)
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    I will now how to somehow include this in a sentance.
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    amazing. and here is the wikipedia article on the Yaghan.
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    bellavita:wordjournal:...noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the...
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    If only I knew how to pronounce this word.
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    Where has this word been all my life? And how the heck do you pronounce it?
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    I get the feeling we are sharing a mamihlapinatapai….why don’t you come to my bedroom and we can find out.
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    Shit, that makes a lot more sense now that I’m familiar with Linguistics.
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    Dude. If I spoke Yaghan, I would need to use this word a lot. A LOT.
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    word this long/annoying...define useful? Kinda funny though.
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    feeling this happens...time. But that might just...wishful...
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    If I still regularly used my Live Journal, this could be quite a handy word to have around for self-indulgent friends...
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