Hey,
I'm new to the board, but I've been wondering about a word for a long time and thought ya'll might be able to help me. I heard it on a TV show (The Inspector Lynly Mysteries) this past summer. It's either monkita or montika. I'm a little dyslexic and I was writing it in a hurry, as it wasn't on there very long, so I may have missed the spelling. But it means something along the lines of; what they know, but do not speak. I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I just thought ya'll would be my best bet in finding out what this word was.

- Alicia

Hey yourself, Alicia.

It would be helpful if you gave the context of the usage in the Inspector Lynly Mysteries. Then, I'm sure, that someone here can help you.

Welcome.

mokita noun the truth that everyone knows but no one talks about. ORIGIN Papuan.

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I've always heard it pronounced as "the elephant in the room"
Hi and welcome Alicia

>Elephant in the room.

Where does that originate?

Any relation to that anecdote about an argument between Wittgenstein and some other philosopher? Wittgenstein (I think it was Wittgenstein) refused to accept that the latter could prove there wasn't a rhinoceros in the room, or something like that. It became an illustration of the absurdity of solipsism.

rm: Have you tried Googling it

I get 4760 hits on the one and 544 on the other

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rm: Have you tried Googling it

I get 4760 hits on the one and 544 on the other

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the word is, indeed, mokita; 35,600 ghits.