[1278] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: House languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 14 18:30:49 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
k)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 17:12:18 EDT
In-Reply-To: <9307131424.AA09266@startide.ctr.columbia.edu>; from "shoulson@ctr
.columbia.edu" at Jul 13, 93 10:24 am
shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu says:
[...]
: Could the
: word for male-marriage-act (Saw) be related to "klingon fighting" (tonSaw)?
: Maybe. Perhaps there's some sort of battle, possibly staged, involving the
: groom at some point in the ceremony.
Where did you find "tonSaw"? Neither TKD or my parser (both including the
addenda) appears to have it
: I recall that L'aadan (a language created specifically for women) had
: special words for "to perform the female sexual act" and "lover-male"/
: "lover-female". Then again, part of its purpose was to deal with gender
: issues.
Interesting...where did you find this?
: ~mark
Qapla',
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