Re: asking for the bathroom

On 30 May, Sally Caves wrote:

There have to be
>circumlocutions,
>idioms, metaphors.  Any suggestions or conlang examples?
    In rtemmu, I would say:

usinano dyuxoo`gfairduru, weris?

u = the speaker doesn't know
si = some people do know
na = the speaker's thoughts are changing at a
         "normal" rate
no = the "dyuxoo`gfairduru" , as a concept, is changing slowly

dyuxo = place
o`g = connecting particle
fai = away from me
rduru = bodily waste

we- = question
-ris = location

Thus, "bathroom" would come out roughly as
"the place for ridding myself of bodily waste".

(Ridding the outside of the body and the
immediate vicinity after it's out. How the waste got out,
is not part of this idiom.)

Dan Sulani

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