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Re: asking for the bathroom

From:Wade, Guy <guy.wade@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 14:07
> "Wade, Guy" wrote: > > > > 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! > > LOL! Let's see, Teonaht: Kwa'r perva li ... bav memwot? > > 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
> ;-) > > > > > Sally > ========================================================== > scaves@frontiernet.net > > "The gods have retractible claws." > from _The Gospel of Bastet_ > ============================================================ >