Re: asking for the bathroom
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 18:50 |
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On Wed, 30 May 2001, Sally Caves wrote:
> "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?
>
Bodily functions are not really taboo in Charya - in a well-appointed
house there might be a central place, in lesser dwellings a bucket
which is collected every morning.
In the first case:
dos hohoch.ini tan air?
1pMGH shit.HAB RTV where?
Where do we shit?
In the second case:
jerat.hau ho.weili
give.IMP shit.box
Give the shit.box!
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org