Re: The Melting

John Cowan wrote:
> Alas, it reminds me sharply of Larry Niven's word for "sex outside one's
> own species, but within the family Hominidae":  _rishathra_.  The
> canonical list of answers to the question "Shall we indulge in r.?" does
> not seem to be online ..... well, read it for yourself in his collection
_N-Space_.
>
I'll do that.  What an amusing concept, which had certainly occurred to me,
and if Mr. Niven won't mind, the word will end up as Kash _riçatra_, a
borrowing from the Galactic language (along with ktosh '(human) clone' and
hnau 'hilf')

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