Word: iglupakulia
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...Language. Introducer C. K. Ogden (author of The Meaning of Meaning) compares Joyce's language to Eskimo, which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson called the most difficult but most efficient language invented by man. In Eskimo, IGLUPAKULIA means: "The big house which he built for himself and still possesses and which is no longer as good as formerly." Speaking of Joyce's language, says Ogden: "The intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse; even the clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated...
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