Re: Looking for a specific word

benlizross wrote:
> > Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> > > What about 'mamihlapinatapei' which is a word from the Tierro del
> > > Fuegan language [which means] 'a meaningful look shared by two people
> > > expressing mutual unstated feelings.' It might be two people in love
> > > Romeo and Juliet across the room. Or it could be two enemies across a
> > > battlefield who are about to bayonet each other."
>
> And let's not forget that TdF is itself a pretty good sized island and
> had at least three distinct languages.

Speakers of different languages can presumably share a meaningful look
when in the same straits (pun on Straits of Magellan:-).

> This item appears to have been circulated by that fount of linguistic
> scholarship,

.... or not so BashaFul book:-)

> the Guinness Book of Records.

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