Website review: Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia, the f...
entin discovered this in Linguistics
•35 reviews since Jan 7, 2006
linguistics, yaghan, words
•en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamihlapinatapai
People who like this website
- chapstickqueen
Northridge
- danzbar
Pasadena
- mandm1111
California
- agraner
California
- deadbeatpoet
California
- lilfatdog
Palo Alto
- arielh85
San Francisco
- bloodprincehalf
Phoenix
- overthought13
Phoenix
- stardustskye
Albuquerque
StumbleUpon is the best way to discover great web sites, videos, photos, blogs and more - based on your interests.
Everything is submitted and rated by the community. Discover, share and review the best of the web!
Reviews of this website
- entin discovered 33 months ago
- どち,,,、自^ではは,たくな,,、>
thegipples rated 4 days ago- From the page: "Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate.[1] It describes 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. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other"."
- wildepenguin rated 4 days ago
- Absolutely beautiful
- equidistance rated 4 days ago
- Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes 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. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other".
- NicksName rated 7 days ago
- Mamihlapinatapai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes 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. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other".
- BluePeriphery rated 11 days ago
- that just rolls off the tongue
- lilfatdog rated 12 days ago
- Actually a totally useful word!
- ankea rated 13 days ago
mmmmm "Mamihlapinatapai It describes 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.... ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other".
- gopherguts1218 rated 8 weeks ago
- Throw it into a conversation... "Right now, we're experiencing mamihlapinatapai."
- Natural rated 4 months ago
- Hey! Was that a mamihlapinatapai?
From the page: "It describes 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." - Hey! Was that a mamihlapinatapai?
- CultureCalls rated 5 months ago
- 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.
