Re: asking for the bathroom

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Sally Caves wrote:

> 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?
In Valdyan it's _dushas_ "piss-place". It's taken for granted that
you do the other thing there as well :-)

   Irina

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