[Tlhingan-hol] Sex and Gender in Klingon

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Mon Mar 14 08:42:08 PDT 2016


On 3/14/2016 11:38 AM, Lieven wrote:
> 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'} ?

It is clearly not used.

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