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Conlangery 142: Mike McCubbins on Anasazi (comic)

Conlangery Podcast

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The Hidden Subtext of a Hunka

The hidden subtext of the word "hunka" is that you're telling me a lie, it's sort of like a story is a fiction. So with that, so a hunka is a Lakota word which means bedtime story. And as I think as children, maybe hearing from their elders, some of them put it together that there's something missing about this explanation they've been given. It's like everyone will recognize the Anasazi, uh, glyph, every time they see it. Uh, and then they'll start to see the other glyphs repeated in such ways.

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