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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Mon Apr 30 12:16:31 2012
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:16:15 +0200
From: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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Am 30.04.2012 17:59, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
> Ah, the culture clash:
That's interesting, indeed.
In German, these words are difficult to translate, because both the
{puch} and the {puchpa'} are called "Toilette". :-)
This leads to problems for germans learning french:
I've experienced, that in french, the word for {puchpa'} is always in
plural. You have to ask "where are the toilets?". I remember a german
student asking "Do you have a bathroom?" (vous avez une toilette?) And
the answer was "Yes, we even have more than one."
In German it's no problem to say that somebody is "at the Toilette", but
it is not the polite way to say what they do there. Children would say
it, though. Many people do avoid the word anyway, saying "I go wash my
hands" or the like.
By the way, it took me a while to understand how american appartments
can have 1 and 1/2 bathrooms! :-)
Lieven.
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