Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Word of the Day: Biritilulo

From one of Andrew Sullivan's readers:
My wife and I are especially fond of "biritilulo," a word from Papua, New Guinea, that literally means "to argue over yams" but is actually a great, loud row deliberately started between two angry parties as a way of letting out tension. It allows everyone to realize that the conflict in question is silly and to get on with life.

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