Re: They _don't_ have a word for it!

Herman Miller wrote:
> Anyone have any cool examples from their langs of interesting gaps in the
> vocabulary?
The Carashais don't have any words like "nigger" or "chink"- their prejudice
isn't based on race but nationality and religion. Likewise there are no
derogatory words for homosexuals, although they do posess informal "jokey"
words as opposed to "samelocaimál" "homosexual"- e.g. culator (related to
"culo" arse), locai, shifef. But then homosexuals posess jokey words for
their straight friends.

Dan

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La plus belle fois qu'on m'a dit
          "je t'aime"
                   c'était un mec
                             qui me l'a dit...
Francis Lalane
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