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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Mon Apr 30 12:03:22 2012
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
<tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:59:19 +0000
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> For the room where the {puch} is installed, use {puchpa'} "washroom, bathroom, toilet"
Ah, the culture clash:
Receiving part of my upbringing (ages 7-10) in a rather posh part of the U.S., I was the only one in my family who was taught that lavatories were to be referred to as bathrooms, rather than toilets.
Furthermore, I got it into my head that one shouldn't even talk about bathrooms unless necessary; better to use euphemisms, or to deny the truth. For instance, if somebody called and asked for a member of your family, and you knew that person to be in the bathroom, you certainly wouldn't say so; you'd say they were taking a shower, or that they'd gone out for a walk and should be back in a few minutes. Anything else was just ... VULGAR!
...aaaand then I moved back to the suburbs of Stockholm, where the standard way for kids to refer to going to the bathroom was to state what bodily function they planned to execute in that place, much to my distress.
Twelve years later, I still refer to lavatories only as "badrum", much to the confusion/amusement of my peers, who insist that they are "toaletter". I guess when I visit Qo'noS, I'll confuse a lot of Klingons by asking <nuqDaq 'oH Say'pa''e'?>.
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From: Steven Boozer [sboozer@uchicago.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 16:13
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puch
> Klingon word: puch
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: toilet
Never used in canon.
{puch } is presumably the appliance, fixture, hole in the ground, etc.
For the room where the {puch} is installed, use {puchpa'} "washroom, bathroom, toilet":
nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e' TKD
nuqDaq puchpa' [clipped] PK
Where is the bathroom?
be' puchpa'
ladies' toilet TNK
loD puchpa'
gents' toilet TNK
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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