tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 19 07:01:51 1997
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Re: Gotta go...
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Gotta go...
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:01:48 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Steven Boozer" at Jun 18, 97 11:52:15 am
<<nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'?>> mutlhobchugh tlhIngan <<pa' nuq
Data' DaneH?>> vItlhobQo'. malja'wIj 'oHbe'ba'. De' vInob 'ej
Qu'wIjvaD vImatlhtaH. Qu'Daj vISaHbe'.
charghwI'
SOME people have NO sense of privacy...
According to Steven Boozer:
>
> |Neal Schermerhorn wrote:
> |> We can say puchDaq jIjaHnISqu'!
> |> But, at the risk of offense, how would we be more...specific?
>
> You'd probably have to be. Without context, a Klingon might well ask, "Why?
> Do you need to wash your hair? Fix the plumbing? Paint the walls? Meet a
> friend?" The idiom "go to the bathroom" is only a genteel English euphemism
> used in polite society.
>
> |> AFAIK there is no word pertaining to 'defecation' or other bodily waste
> |> discharge.
>
> Not that I think this topic would offend a Klingon. In "Looking for
> par'Mach..." Quark once quipped to Worf, "You people have rituals for
> everything except waste extraction!"
>
> |I usually use puch vIlo'nIS [...]
> |I think that's about as specific as we can get. And I don't think we
> |should rate this too highly on the wish list.
> |
> |SuStel
>
> Of course, we all know that no one in Star Trek ever needs to go to the
> bathroom anyway. {{;-)
>
> -- Voragh
>
>