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Re: picnic

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, September 16, 2000, 13:17
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:

> All that diversion about /nik/ meaning to have sex made me > wonder what word _I_ should invent for that purpose.
Oh dear. I think I'm going to still be too embarrassed, though I did accidentally "invent" "fertile" (it's in the morpheme-set meaning, more generally, "fullness"--not terribly original) on the way. I can't even write hint-hint nudge-nudge scenes in fiction, probably because of the sneaking conviction that my parents will find the piece someday and read it, even though they probably don't care. How *do* various languages present sex?
> I wasn't going to invent such a word so early, because > there's still less than twenty root verbs and if one of them > happens to mean sex then it could arouse peoples' suspicions > in the wrong direction. But what the hell.
<laugh> I've got some 50 and I'm missing basic things like thank-you and hello and body parts. YHL