Re: Obscenities

--- "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...> wrote:


> > First of all, the Orcs of Antarctica speak a language which is
> pretty
> > much a language of obscenities.  Everything is sexual, excretory or
> > blasphemy, to the degree that the use of swear words is really a
> > standard and "formal" element of the Doh language!!
>
> Do the Orcs have eructative phonemes (= belches)?
No, but they still might belch in your face anyway.

They do, however, express nuances in word meanings with gestures.  It's
like the language not only has consonants, vowels and tones, but also
gestures, which are used for non-particle words.

DaW.

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