Re: alcohol & drugs in ConLangs/ConCultures(was Re: tender age)

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From: "J Y S Czhang" <czhang23@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:24 PM
Subject: alcohol & drugs in ConLangs/ConCultures(was Re: tender age)


> >And Rosta wrote:
> >
> >> Oi! At 16 years old you're simply not SUPPOSED to be reading
> >> Reichenbach! I forget exactly what it is you are supposed
> >> be doing at 16, but it's probably something like experimenting
> >> with sex, drugs, religion, socialism and drinking too much &
> >> vomiting in the street.
> >
> In a message dated 17.09.2001 07:54:05 AM, dan@FEUCHARD.FSNET.CO.UK writes:
> >
> >Hmm, at sixteen (two years ago!! I'm getting old!)... sex: check, drugs:
> >only if nicotine and alcohol count, religion: check, socialism: check,
> >drinking too much: check, vomiting in the street: check.
> 
>     At the risk of soundin' like a "recovery fanatic" and alienatin' all the
> "normies" (non-addicted, non-alcoholics) on this list, I find it interestin'
> to note the followin' from the literature of Narcotics Anonymous:
>     "...Thinking of alcohol as different from other drugs has caused a great
> many addicts to relapse. Before we came to N.A., many of us viewed alcohol
> separately, but we cannot afford to be confused about this. Alcohol is a
> drug. We are people with a disease of addiction who must abstain from all
> drugs in order to recover."
> 
>     ***ConLang/ConCulture***: What are some Conlang/ConCulture concepts,
> terms, slang, etc. regardin' alcohol and drugs? Are there socio-cultural
> "remedies" like rehab, 12 Step (AA, NA, etc.), Rational Recovery, Secular
> Recovery, religious/philosophical/political/socio-scientific prohibitions...?
> 
>     czHANg, gleefully openin' - possibly - a can o' worms partly opened by
> others quoted above ;P~
> 
> 
>     BTW I am workin' on a ConCulture for my ConLang
>     [sorta brief preview: Kaoz Babul Ingaliz is a polyglot-English creole on
> the tiny island country of Tauru ... located near the equator, SW of the
> Philipines in the South China Sea, roughly north of Brunei and Borneo...
> populated by the descendants of native Malayo-Polynesians, Indonesians,
> European colonialists, Chinese (mostly Cantonese), Indians (mostly Hindi),
> and various peoples from that particular South China Sea region plus a
> sizable number of European, American, Australian, New Zealander and Japanese
> expatriates (pop.: 9,000 in 2020).
>     Tauru has a colourful history, i.e. early history of bein' a pirate
> stronghold, colonized or occupied by various nations or armed forces at one
> time or another (i.e. Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, Japanese,
> combined American & Chinese WW2 "freedom fighters", Vietnam-era CIA/Air
> America, Islamic Moro "terrorists," French secret service agents before &
> after the sinking of the Greenpeace ship _Rainbow Warrior_ in 1985, etc.
> before gaining full &total independence in 2020 with aid and support from:
> Fri Ripablik Blong Vanuatu {a.k.a. the Free Republic of Vanuatu}
> the Maori Cooperative of Aotearoa/the Green Republic of New Zealand,
> the Democratic Kingdoms of Hawa'ii and United Free Polynesia,
> the Islamic Autonomy of Brunei,
> the People's Socialist Democracy of Indonesia,
> Wantok Bilong Nugini {a.k.a. the United States of New Guinea}
> the United Confederation of Micronesian States,
> Bharat {a.k.a. the Unified Pluralist States of Greater India}
> and the Libertarian Socialist Democracies of Southern China and United
> Indochina
> as well as Vatican III, the Dalai Lama, the Aga Khan, the Global Green Party
> Confederation and Greenpeace) ... MORE DETAILS to come...]

Tauru? Tauru? Get Nauru and take of the N, put on a T, easy :-)