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From the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego.

Mamihlapinatapai

a look shared by two people, each of whom wish the other would initiate something that they both desire, but which neither one wants to concede.

(My phrasing. Originally shared by Anand).

Now I’m going to try to write a poem.

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