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DKH01-029_mema_injua_kumapa - Mema injua kumapa ‘A huge cunt of a dead woman’s spirit’

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Mema injua kumapa is most accurately translated as ‘a huge cunt of a dead woman’s spirit’. For the Awiakay injua is felt to be the most obscene word, roughly corresponding to (yet felt to be worse than) the English word ‘cunt’. The phrases deriving from it are the most damning insults one can throw at someone. Nevertheless, people use them on a daily basis in abusive rants at those who make the...
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2018
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