[Tlhingan-hol] Sex and Gender in Klingon

[Lieven]

Am 14.03.2016 um 16:22 schrieb De'vID:

>> It's not clarified if these expressions are actually in common use by
>> Klingons, or if they were provided primarily for our benefit.
>
> I had a chat with MO about {nga'chuq}. Informal chat, off the record,
> so not officially canon, but he confirmed that all participants are in
> the subject, which must be plural, and that the sex or gender of the
> participants don't matter. (That is, it differs from the English sex
> verbs in which the subject is the [active] giver and the object is the
> [passive] recipient. Apparently, everyone involved in a Klingon sex
> act are presumed to be equally active participants.)

Well, manga'chuq seems obvious, but does the word work without the 
suffix? What is {qanga'} ?

:-)

(I hope I do not open an old discussion again)

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Lieven L. Litaer
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