Equality of the sexes follows automatically from Odo's principles, and thus there is no word in Pravic for what a man does to a woman ( or vice versa ) during mutually consented sex: there is just an intransitive verb (" copulate ") that must have a plural subject.

The author mentions that " bastard " as an insult is used in Iotic, but it remains a foreign untranslated word during a conversation in Pravic, since it has no meaning in Anarres, where marriage does not exist.

Pravic is a fictional language used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Pravic is a fictional constructed language: in the book, it is said to have been constructed by a person named Farigv.

Pravic is spoken on the planet Anarres, where followers of the philosopher Laia Asieo Odo chose to be exiled in order to achieve the goal of a functioning anarchic society.

As far as we know, the only language spoken widely in Anarres is Pravic, though the few people that have contact with Urras ( mostly trade officials and scientists ) also speak Iotic, the language of Urras's dominant nation A-Io.

Shevek, the main character in the book, ponders about the institutions of " marriage " and " prostitution ", which appear in quotes in the text because he is thinking in Iotic, not in Pravic.

Although not stated explicitly in the text, Pravic is implied to lack pronouns that show different degrees of politeness or deference, as well as titles and other terms of address that do not refer to an actual function of the person.

In Pravic, there is no need of using euphemisms with regard to excrement.

There is very scarce actual linguistic information about Pravic in the book.

Iotic is spoken in A-Io, a superpower of the planet Urras, one of two settings of the story ( the other one being the sister planet Anarres, where Pravic is spoken ).

In contrast to Pravic, Iotic is a natural language, and as such probably exhibits many irregularities and complications, but the reader is not informed of them in the book.

They of course must have existed before the invention of Pravic, so they could have been borrowed from Iotic or other language, but maybe they are indeed Pravic adaptations, or simply approximated English spellings.

Instead of such terms as " toilet ", " water closet / WC ", " going to the bathroom " and the like, Pravic speakers feel no hesitation in forthrightly calling the place " the shittery ".

Most Pravic words in the book are proper names ( said to be generated randomly by a computer ), and they are two-syllable words with five or six phonemes ( of the form CVCVC, where C = consonant, V = vowel ), if one counts the groups sh, gv and kv as single consonants, which they probably are.

Pravic apparently has no word for " forest ", probably because Anarres has no real forests, being mostly dry, with small sparse trees and bushes, if anything.

He rarely speaks, and when he does it usually takes the form of either ( 1 ) just cursing to himself indistinctly, usually following some misfortune that has befallen him, or ( 2 ) an excited " yeah-yeah-yeah ..." at the offer of something appealing or in response to a command / request from Dastardly.

Pepys records in his celebrated diary a legend that, before his death, Nostradamus made the townsfolk swear that his grave would never be disturbed ; but that 60 years later his body was exhumed, whereupon a brass plaque was found on his chest correctly stating the date and time when his grave would be opened and cursing the exhumers.

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Law, too, was often harsh among the Puritans ; offenses legally punishable by death in the Connecticut colonies included, " witchcraft, blasphemy, cursing or smiting of parents, and incorrigible stubbornness of children.

In the next year, Ceolred died ; Saint Boniface later described him as dying in a crazed frenzy at a banquet, " gibbering with demons and cursing the priests of God ".

Although Pétain had long since gone it still included much of Coeurs Vaillants edited version: the British were referred to as " the police "; some cursing remarks made by a Jew about Arabs who have blocked the road were not included ; and Tintin's Zionist-lookalike was still named Durand.

A related phrase " we lost of a lot of religion " used to describe an activity that went poorly and resulted in a loss of temper and cursing ; often said of performing repairs on equipment.

All members of the group hailed from poverty and their songs often depict life and struggle in the underclass and working class ; which created a lot of controversies due to the cursing and the subject matter.

It should be noted, however, that this substitution is in no way trying to limit cursing ; the game itself is riddled with blatant swearing and innuendo.

They were cursing him, holding secret consultations to kill him quietly in the dark of the night so that the Banu Hashim could not discover the murderer and take revenge ; magic and charms were being worked on him so as to cause his death, or make him fall ill, or become mad ; satans from among the men and the jinn spread on every side so as to whisper one or another evil into the hearts of the people against him and the Qur ' an brought by him so that they became suspicious of him and fled him.

: It was the dark delusion of a dream, That living Person conscious and supreme, Whom we must curse for cursing us with life ; Whom we must curse because the life he gaveCould not be buried in the quiet grave, Could not be killed by poison or the knife.

Igraine eventually begins to give birth to the baby, while Frik meets and amuses Morgan through his magic ; in return she promises to place a black stone beneath the baby ’ s sheets in his crib, thus cursing his life.

He lived for many years at Avignon, cursing the corruption of the papal court ; he travelled through nearly the whole of Europe ; he corresponded with emperors and popes, and he was considered the most important writer of his time.

She also delights in cursing others ; for example, she causes seafarers to lose their navigational instincts.

Dua Sanamain Quraish ( Arabic دعاء صنمي قريش, literally " the Supplication of the two idols of Quraish "), is a Shia tradition, used in cursing the first two Sunni caliphs ; Abu Bakr and Umar.

The " holiness " injunctions which give the code its name begin with the next section: penalties are imposed for the worship of Molech, consulting mediums and wizards, cursing one's parents and engaging in unlawful sex.

In its 2010-2011 bibliography, " Books Challenged or Banned ", the Newsletter of Intellectual Freedom lists Speak as having been challenged in Missouri schools because of its " soft-pornography " and " glorification of drinking, cursing, and premarital sex.

Women in the flapper age were the first large group to practice pre-marital sex, dancing, cursing, and driving in modern America without scandal following them.

The producers originally planned to film on Tangier Island, Virginia, but some members of the town council objected to the drinking, cursing and sex in the movie and demanded script revisions in exchange for shooting permission, even though this turned out to be a PG-13 rated film.

Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, coarse language, foul speech, strong language, dirty words, ' cussing ', bad words, bad language, adult language, vulgar language, inappropriate language or simply language, is language that is strongly impolite or offensive in many situations.

Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.

" Blasphemy " may be used as a substitute for " profanity " or " cursing " as it is used in this sentence: " With much hammering and blasphemy, the locomotive's replacement spring was finally fitted.

Jay's excessive cursing seems due to influence from his overbearing mother, who is shown continually using profanity in front of him.

Dante mentioned in his Divina Commedia the free town of Pistoia as the home town of Vanni Fucci, who is encountered in Inferno tangled up in a knot of snakes while cursing God, and Michelangelo called the Pistoiesi the " enemies of heaven ".

Suffolk is banished for his role in Gloucester's death, whilst Winchester contracts a fever and dies, cursing God.

The former stubbornly sits at his table eating his breakfast, impulsively cursing the Nazis as his wife pleads with him to go to the shelter, while the latter is about to climax with the prostitute on top of him when suddenly, frightened by the bombs, she runs away in horror thus forcing him to finish himself off.

In French-Canadian culture, particularly in and around Quebec, the use of the names of holy objects such as " câlice " ( a variation of calice, which is the French word for chalice ) can be an alternate form of cursing.

When Dottie Hinkle testifies that Beverly is her prank phone caller, Beverly's courtroom antics cause Dottie to explode in a cursing fit, destroying her credibility and the judge holds her in contempt of court.

Prior to performances, it is traditional for the cast to gather together to avert the bad luck by wishing each other bad luck or cursing – in English-speaking countries, the expression " break a leg " replaces the phrase " good luck ".

Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ) is led to speak of the Ophites ( Contra Celsum 5: 28 ) by an accusation of Celsus that the Christians counted seven heavens, and spoke of the Creator as an accursed divinity, inasmuch as he was worthy of execration for cursing the serpent who introduced the first human beings to the knowledge of good and evil.

The princess comes to the castle whereupon the queen immediately recognizes her, and the troll girl finds a troll woman who is cursing loudly as she works.

Along he comes, he breaks into the cabin, and goes through one of Carey ’ s old logbooks, cursing when he finds that the information that he wants is missing, having been torn out of the book.

Losing religion is a metaphor or euphemism for cursing used in some rural areas of America.

The actual reason light acts as such a potent Achilles ' heel for grues is inconsistently given — some games imply that grues find levels of light ordinary for humans to be intolerably, blindingly painful but can nonetheless survive it ( such as in Planetfall, where an obviously grue-like creature exists in a lit laboratory, " squinting and cursing at the light " — although the laboratory contains other creatures that are clearly mutants, so it is possible that this grue is simply a mutant that is able to survive in a lighted area.

The title of one of their most popular songs, "" ( Hum Ga Ling ), is one of the strongest cursing phrases in Cantonese mingled with English phrases like " You know what the fuck I'm sayin ~".

" In Edinburgh and to northwards especially, they cry so bitterly against the Union, cursing those great men of theirs that gave consent to it, that one may see fifty men before one that is for the Union, in South or North.