It was a beautiful moment when you are having the first date with your girl. The movie was so romantic, the dinner was great, and the sky just as beautiful as your hands were stick each other. As you both sit on a bench in the city garden, had a light conversation, you both started to look each other and thought the same thing. You want to have a kiss.

Unfortunately, both of you were shy enough, so until the night ends and each of you went home, nothing has happened. No kiss because none of you started the it.

The condition that you experienced can be described with the word Mamihlapinatapai. Say it again? Mamihlapinatapai. It’s the word in Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego which describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as “eye-contact implying ‘after you…’”. A more literal approximation is “ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other”.

And you know… the word Mamihlapinatapai is listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the most succinct word and is considered one of the hardest words to translate.

Okay. Will you say it again?