Re: Mokita

Peter Smagorinsky (smagor who-is-at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu)
Thu, 16 May 96 16:03:49 -0500

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Just wondering....does mokita refer to the sorts of implicit rules that
people have referred to recently to guide social processes, or to social
facts such as Aunt Lena's affair with the postal carrier?

Peter

At 07:13 AM 5/16/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
Can you tell me more about
>>the word "mokita"? It comes from a Papua New Guinea word (one word from one
>>of thousands of languages) and I think the rough translation is "things
>>that we all know but choose not to speak about".
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