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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2019 12:24 PM, qurgh lungqIj
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cite="mid:CALPi+eTJBvVHs1nzCEfHWO_4PmPjcrff5sKst2E10J-CjZnvqw@mail.gmail.com">Klingons
mate. Humans mate too. They might label it "making love", "having
sex", "shagging", "doing it", "making the beast with two backs" or
something else to try to differentiate it from what the rest of
the biological world does, but it's still mating. <br>
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<p>Sure, but what we're interested in is labels, or words. Outside
of a science-fiction context, nobody speaking modern English says
<i>mate</i> to refer to people having sex.</p>
<p><b>ngagh</b> and <b>nga'chuq</b> seems to refer to basically the
same sort of act. The question is, do they get more specific?<br>
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<div dir="auto">Or is it primarily used for animals ?<br>
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<div>Humans and Klingons <b>are </b>animals. </div>
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<p>But languages usually distinguish between people and non-people,
and Klingon basically does this in its capable-of-using-language
suffixes and its pronouns. The distinction here may be important
in Klingon. It is in English.<br>
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