[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puch

[Steven Boozer]

Or even...

nuqDaq 'oH bIQ pa'Hom'e'?


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Malmenbeck [mailto:felixm at kth.se]
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 10:59 AM
> To: Steven Boozer; tlhingan-hol at 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 at uchicago.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 16:13
> To: tlhingan-hol at 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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