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defrost • yesterday at 9:37 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

The problem with

   I need to micturate a lot.
is few would know WTF the author is referring to.

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jhbadger • yesterday at 9:56 AM

What's wrong with "urinate" or "pee"?

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ButlerianJihad • yesterday at 10:22 AM

“Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturitions are to me,

As plurdled gabbleblotchits,

On a lurgid bee,

That mordiously hath blurted out,

Its earted jurtles,

Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.

[drowned out by moaning and screaming]”

—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

It is quite interesting to note, that when I read this as a teenager, I did not even try to find out what “micturitions” are, because I confidently assumed that these were all nonsense words.

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