Re: picnic
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 16, 2000, 13:17 |
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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