tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 19 09:18:34 1996
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Re: Some risque (not "risky") interpretations
- From: "Christian Matzke" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Some risque (not "risky") interpretations
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:09:52 -0500
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On 19 Jan 96 at 5:30, Lord Havelock Sinister <[email protected]>
wrote:
> nga'chuq sex - always
> subject
> Now, the -chuq suffix (Type 1 verb) implies plurality, since it is
> assumed that sex is always conducted with more than one person. How
> many is more than one, by the way? :-)
>
> But there is another Type 1 suffix, however. (Some of you may have
> looked into the future, and are now cringing at what I'm about to
> tell you. Good.)
>
> The existence of the term <nga'chuq> must preclude the existence of
> another verb, also always subject:
>
> nga''egh masturbate
> (v)
>
I was wondering when this might come up. It seems to me that we still
can't assume *nga' as a stand alone verb, just like we can't get wov as a noun
from maSwov. However, it is entirely possible that this term would be
okayed by MO at some point. In the mean time you could make do with
Sep'egh or ngagh'egh (the problem with both of these is that to me
they imply at least the possiblility of pregnancy). nga''egh
DOES capture the meaning a lot more closely... damn, now I'm on a
tangent. If one were specifically talking about impregnation could
they use yotlhmoH? Back to *nga', I think my problem with it is in
its translation, how would you translate it without the -chuq?
> Not to mention the possibility of there being a term such as
>
> nga'wI'ghom orgy ...
I have the same problem with this as the other. Here I thing
ngaghwI'ghom works just fine.
>
> I offer these without further comment.
> Alexander T Greene
> (who's been wearing a knowing, slightly mocking, smile the whole
> time, so please accept this email in the spirit it was offered ...
Okey-dokey.
maSqa'
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