{"id":2404,"date":"2009-02-23T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2009-02-23T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:54:56","slug":"make-it-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Make It Plain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectingdotz.com\/in-a-word.php\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mamihlapinatapai card\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/word_10.png\" title=\"Mamihlapinatapai card\" alt=\"Mamihlapinatapai card\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the much-rumored Inuit propensity for creating &#8220;snow&#8221; synonyms, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectingdotz.com\"  target=\"_blank\">Connecting Dotz<\/a>&#8216;s line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectingdotz.com\/in-a-word.php\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In a Word&#8221;<\/a> cards utilizes the nuances imbued in twenty-four foreign nouns and exclamations to convey subtleties within the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>Of the host\u2014&#8221;Uffda!&#8221; &#8220;Istikhara,&#8221; &#8220;Koi No Yokan,&#8221; &#8220;Skookum Tumtum&#8221;\u2014perhaps my favorite is <span class=\"cardBoxFullword\"><em>mamihlapinatapai<\/em>, above <\/span><span class=\"cardBoxDef\">(ma-MI-luh-PEE-na-TAH-pie), from the endangered South American language, Yaghan: &#8220;<\/span>A meaningful look between two people, expressing mutual unstated feelings; literally means &#8216;ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other.'&#8221; Any six cards, $30; twelve, $49.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the much-rumored Inuit propensity for creating &#8220;snow&#8221; synonyms, Connecting Dotz&#8216;s line of &#8220;In a Word&#8221; cards utilizes the nuances imbued in twenty-four foreign nouns and exclamations to convey subtleties within the human condition. Of the host\u2014&#8221;Uffda!&#8221; &#8220;Istikhara,&#8221; &#8220;Koi No Yokan,&#8221; &#8220;Skookum Tumtum&#8221;\u2014perhaps my favorite is mamihlapinatapai, above (ma-MI-luh-PEE-na-TAH-pie), from the endangered South American language, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}