Re: Obscenities
| From: | Jeff Sheets <wickedbob@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 21:12 |
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In a message dated 8/29/00 14:10:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:28:52PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> [snip]
> > Do the Orcs have eructative phonemes (= belches)?
>
> Hey, awesome idea! Maybe when I get to work on the language of Black
> Harbour (a parallel universe to the one my current conlang is in), I'll be
> sure to include some eructatives... :-)
>
>
> T
Dang, I can actually burp voluntarily, but I had never thought of using the
act as a phoneme!!! It would fit the concept of "filthy" orcs, although in
most of my con-cultures that include goblins and orcs, they are a tad more
civilized than this... :) It would be difficult to control such phonemes,
at least as a human. Maybe such orcs would have better diaphram control...
I wonder how many humans could even speak such a language.
Jeff Sheets
"On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, `Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage