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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Apr 30 12:10:11 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:09:52 +0000
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C2063B@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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Or even...
nuqDaq 'oH bIQ pa'Hom'e'?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Malmenbeck [mailto:felixm@kth.se]
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 10:59 AM
> To: Steven Boozer; tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Subject: RE: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puch
>
> > 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'?>.
>
> ________________________________________
> 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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