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Life on Catulla has often meant life aboard a boat or ship. With the shortage of land, houseboats (in the case of the poorest, lean-tos on reed rafts) provided shelter for many. Post-warp, given replicator technology and abundant energy resources, houseboats can now be a lifestyle choice, rather than a necessity.<br> | Life on Catulla has often meant life aboard a boat or ship. With the shortage of land, houseboats (in the case of the poorest, lean-tos on reed rafts) provided shelter for many. Post-warp, given replicator technology and abundant energy resources, houseboats can now be a lifestyle choice, rather than a necessity.<br> | ||
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==Language== | |||
The peninsular/island societies of Catullan history developed a wide variety of different languages and dialects, but eventually, as with many Federation worlds, a single dominant language emerged at the same time as a world government began to form.<br> | |||
The relative scarcity of Catullans in Federation society has meant that the completion of universal translator databases for Catullan has not been a priority. Much informal Catullan (exclamations, obscenities) and some cultural references | |||
without equivalent in other cultures (real and mythological plants and animals, food and drink, cultural artefacts such as garments, etc.) is still passed along unchanged by the translator. A partial list of some common elements and constructions from Catullan Standard follows.<br> | |||
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* ''en/eyn'': Equivalent to Galactic Standard for 'er/ers' 'or/ors', indicating someone or something which performs an action or a role | |||
* ''jad/jayd'': possessive (my/ours) | |||
* ''in'': adding the pronoun object 'it' | |||
* ''agget'': indicating a verb gerund (the 'ing' of doing, making, being) | |||
* ''ers/erst'': noun/adjective indicators for the spiritual, having to do with the realm of the gods or spirits; often indicating the collective mass of all the Catullan souls who have ever lived which, in times past, was believed by Catullans to influence fate as much as their gods | |||
* ''saat'': city/town/municipal entity | |||
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* ''Ao!'': Oh! <br> | |||
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* ''loeg'': extremely informal designation for friend, companion ('buddy', 'dude' but gender neutral) | |||
* ''moeg'': a knot or cluster | |||
* ''benvod'': a shrine | |||
* ''tsood'': bodily waste | |||
* ''klieg'': a storm <br> | |||
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* ''frek'': to have penetrative sexual activity | |||
* ''strachte'': to menace, threaten, scare | |||
==Leisure== | ==Leisure== | ||