[Tlhingan-hol] Sex and Gender in Klingon

[Felix Malmenbeck]

I've always assumed that {nga'chuq} is related to {ngaghchuq}; either *nga'* is an old form of {ngagh}, a cognate, or maybe {ngaghchuq} mutated into {nga'chuq} through common use.

So you wouldn't say *qanga'*; even in the odd event that you want to specify yourself as the sexer and your partner as the sexee, you'd say {qangagh}.

In one of the audio courses (PK?), there's a phrase along the lines of:

{targhlIj yIngagh! yIruch!}
"Go mate with your targ!"

There's also the non-canonical *nga''egh* which people sometimes use to refer to ... self-administering physical therapy.
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From: SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 4:42:08 PM
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Sex and Gender in Klingon

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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SuStel
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