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

>In a message dated 9/18/01 12:26:50 PM, czhang23@AOL.COM writes:
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><<   ***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...?
>>>
A good question.
The Kash "double-plus" cultural values are (1) Moderation in all things (2)
Self-control (3) Self-sufficiency (insofar as possible in a modern world).
It's possible too that in a low-population world (barely 1 billion, 60%
Kash) people are simply too busy for excessive diversions.  Addiction, when
it occurs, is considered a medical/psycological problem and treated as such.
Some vocab:
    handato (hañu 'soul' +- lato 'wander') 'intoxicated, high (from any
substance)'
    pepu(k) 'drunk, spec. from alcohol'; cakapepuk 'really drunk, blotto'
    cakulap 'falling-down drunk' (< ulap 'stagger')
    cakimu-kimu 'one who drinks to excess, an alcoholic' (< imu 'drink')
    çeci ~ceci 'sober; sober up' (related to çenjik 'stoic')
    puhi 'alcohol' (< Gwr)
(As you might gather, most of my experience has been with alcohol.  But as
an unreformed smoker (tobacco), I have decreed that there be no handy,
usable source of nicotine on Cindu, though various psychoactive plants exist
and are used by "shamans" in some of the more traditional tribal groups--
those whom Indonesians so nicely term "masih primitif" 'still primitive'


The wild Cousins know every dangerous plant in the forest and avoid them; if
your telepathy is out of whack, you aren't going to do very well at
hunting.....

The Gwr, on the other hand..... "If it can be done, go ahead and do it....."

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