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Umanpuru wajtanakushanku

Quechwan idiom.

Literal translation:

Umanpuru. Uma- root word for head. -n third person singular genitive suffix. -puru Spanish loan from puro, meaning only. (Dices puras mentiras, you say only lies.)

Wajtanakushanku. Wajta- Root word for hit + -na Nominalizer suffix -> Wajtana = A hit + -ku reflex -> Wajtanaku = A self-hit. -shan progressive verbalizer + -ku third person plural reflex. So, They are getting hits from each other. They're not fighting, that's the root maka-.

In all, They are just bumping their heads into each other.

This idiom is used to refer to the situation where you have a confused and disorganized group rushing to and fro in a restricted place and bumping into each other. They're not necessarily frantic, but they aren't getting anything done or generally ineffective. They could be idle regarding an expected activity. It conveys the image of people butting heads sideways, not confrontationally but comically.

Umanpuru is not used by itself, outside of this idiom. Wajtanakushanku by itself is grammatical but odd.

Quechwan is an agglutinative language sub-family spoken mostly in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, with a few speakers in Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. This idiom was collected from the Southern variety, in Bolivia.

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Iford Manor Gardens, Iford, England by Stacy Cartledge

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obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

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something ive noticed while reading dantes inferno is that there seems to be a lot of italians in hell

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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”

— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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~ Plaque of conjuration against the Lamashtu, called "plaque of the underworld" or Hell Plate.

Period: Neo-Assyrian (1st half of the millennium)

Place of origin: Assyria

Medium: Bronze

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Rafael Romero Barros (Spanish, 1832-1895) Still life with oranges, 1863

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From the US but i spell grey with an e because e just feels like a much greyer letter than a

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~ Venus of Vienna.

Date: 175-100 B.C.

Place of origin: Sainte-Colombe-lèz-Vienne

Medium: Marble

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"I wish you a great big garden and blue skies."

Letters, 1921, Franz Kafka

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DON’T EVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT WHAT YOU SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES ISN’T HAPPENING.

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Go buy my new book! 

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“The public will believe a simple lie in preference to a complicated truth.”

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Alexis de Tocqueville (via quotabletitle)

Which is why democracy is strange and very dangerous! And you people wonder why I’m famous

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This is the water system of Yellow river (in yellow) Compared to the water system of the Yangtze river (in blue)

by @zhao_dashuai

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Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935), Apples and Pears, 1933. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 10 x 13 ¾ in.