Re: asking for the bathroom

> "Wade, Guy" wrote:
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> > I will just have to be a bystander for this.  It sounds
> fascinating, but at
> > this time I can't even ask the way to the bathroom in my lang!
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> LOL!  Let's see, Teonaht:  Kwa'r perva li ... bav memwot?
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> I just asked for the water room.  I can't believe that I have no word
> for
> toilet in Teonaht.  And then all the politeness conventions.
> You can't
> just baldly say "where's the shit stool?"  There have to be
> circumlocutions,
> idioms, metaphors.  Any suggestions or conlang examples?
>
I guess it would depend on the conculture, wouldn't it?  "Shit stool" would
work for the commoners of a farming culture; the 'upper class' would use
circumlocution, or at least a different word, and call it civilized.
Perhaps 'defecatorium'?  ;-)

Guy

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