Re: Vulgarity

This is an interesting area to notice lexical mismatches and gaps
between languages.  Good old Laadan, as I remember, is famous for
having a verb which is to women what "to fuck" is to men.  (Despite
the fact that a lot of people use the F-word without gender
discrimination in English...)

I always found it interesting that Latin has a word which is
complementary to "fellare"; if you are being-fellated-by-someone, you
can use the word "irrumare" to describe what you are doing to them, as
in the famous (and probably misremembered by me):

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo!

Ed


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Sally Caves wrote:

> Bryan Maloney wrote:
> >
> > To misquote my favorite composer:
> >
> > "If it's made for lovin', it's got to stay out of reach.
> >  For you can't take it out on the beach!"
> >
> > So, who has worked out any convulgarity?
>
> Oh, T. is full of it, but only the most commonplace or outlandish
> expressions am I willing to give glosses of.
>
> S.C.
>