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The History of the English Language Carnal Approach to Edification: Nomenclature of Classical Copulative Kinetics. Shianhwa Aziz Jang April 5, 2011. In the beginning…the galaxies came into being. The Greek Galaxy=The English Milky Way. Galactagogue.
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The History of the English LanguageCarnal Approach to Edification:Nomenclature of Classical Copulative Kinetics Shianhwa Aziz Jang April 5, 2011
In the beginning…the galaxies came into being. The Greek Galaxy=The English Milky Way.
Galactagogue • The morpheme agogue has to do with “lead”, as in demagogue and pedagogue. • Galactagogue=captain as in the Star Trek?
Galactagogue • The morpheme galac means milk. • Galactagogue is a substance that promotes lactation.
post coitum omne animal triste est • After sexual intercourse every animal is sad. • The phrase does not occur in classical Latin but derives from Aristotle and the naturalist historian Pliny. • Aristotle: “Quod omne animal post coitum est triste.”
post coitum • After sexual intercourse • Post-coital tristesse (PCT, or post-coital tristesse, tristesse being French) • Post coitum, animal triste. 1997, France
coitus interruptus • Sexual intercourse in which, with the intention of avoiding conception, the penis is completely withdrawn from the vagina before ejaculation
coitus reservatus • Sexual intercourse in which, by a techniques of deliberate control, ejaculation or complete orgasm is avoided and copulation thereby prolonged
ejaculatio praecox • Premature ejaculation, rapid termination of the sexual act on the part of the male • Cf. cook (to prepare food, to ripen), precocious
incubus • demon in male form that seeks to perform corporeal coordination with females dormant. The legendary magician Merlin was said to have been fathered by an incubus….The word incubus is derived from the Latin incubus (“nightmare”) and incubare (“to lie upon, weigh upon, brood”). (Adapted from Encycloepdia Britannica) (cf. incubate, incubation; cubicle; incumbent, recumbent)
ius primate noctis • Right of the first night • It has been believed that by this custom, known in French as droit de seigneur, the feudal lord had the right to sleep with every bride on his estate on her wedding night. • Cf. justice, primary, and nocturnal
cunnilingus • Cunnus—vulva, the external genital system or reproductive organs of female mammals. Cunt. • The base lingu means tongue. • EO or EP
fellatio A kind of repetitive labiolingiglotal movement imposed on males. BJ.
Economic Fellatio: Modern French Examples Mr Sarkozy is not the only French politician to wrestle with the language. Some fail to make adjectives agree with nouns, or conjugate verbs improperly. Others simply slip up while their minds are apparently elsewhere.
France is a genitales society facing fellation. Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister, recently referred to “génitales” (genital) rather than “digitales” (digital) fingerprints. And in a discussion about the economy, Rachida Dati, formerly justice minister, coolly said “fellation” (fellatio) instead of “inflation”. (from the Economist, 2011)
References • Morwood, James. 1998. A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases. Oxford: Oxford University Press. • Online Encyclopedia Britannica • The Economist. Jan. 31th, 2011. “Sarkozy Can’t Speak Proper: French Politician Take on Their Language”