Miguel del Barco, who worked on the peninsula as a Jesuit missionary for 30 years in the 1700s, wrote a book with a passage that translates to:
"Most Indian men squatted while urinating, in such a way that they could not apply the paraphrase of the Sacred Scripture: mingetem ad parieter
etcetera."
I'm working on a manuscript about the peninsula's Indians and would like to know what the Latin says.
Can anyone help?vandenberg - 3-22-2008 at 12:28 PM
Don't pee on your mocassins.Sharksbaja - 3-22-2008 at 12:29 PM
Sorry,no, but I bet we are all interested.
Maybe it reads:
" man who squats during chubasco is man with good smell"DENNIS - 3-22-2008 at 01:10 PM
Are you certain it's Latin? I ran each word through an online Latin/English dictionary, three in fact, and they can't identify any of them.Diver - 3-22-2008 at 01:20 PM
Dictionary: urine (yʊr'ĭn)
n.
The waste product secreted by the kidneys that in mammals is a yellow to amber-colored, slightly acid fluid discharged from the body through the
urethra.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin urina.]
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[Edited on 3-22-2008 by Diver]
Pee
tehag - 3-22-2008 at 03:09 PM
Mingitorio is Spanish for an upright urinal. The phrase you quote might be an example of Latin/Spanish patois used during that period.bacquito - 3-22-2008 at 04:07 PM
Why did they squat?
Huh?
Gypsy Jan - 3-22-2008 at 06:01 PM
Morgaine7
Could you please provide more explanatory detail - your post makes my head hurt.sylens - 3-22-2008 at 06:17 PM
somewhere in the old testament (sorry can't quote chapter and verse) there is a prohibition against "peeing against a wall."
no kidding.
i learned about it reading mark twain's "letters from the earth."
"...that was an impropriety which the Source of all Etiquette never could stand. A person could pi$$ against a tree, he could pi$$ on his mother, he
could pi$$ on his own breeches, and get off, but he must not pi$$ against the wall--that would be going quite too far. The origin of the divine
prejudice against this humble crime is not stated; but we know that the prejudice was very strong--so strong that nothing but a wholesale massacre of
the people inhabiting the region where the wall was defiled could satisfy the Deity."castaway$ - 3-22-2008 at 07:10 PM
Perhaps it states it's better to squat and pee when the wind is blowing hard!Iflyfish - 3-23-2008 at 12:24 AM
No one urinates in Latin, they urinate in stream and Dibble. Though some do indeed void where prohibited by law and now I understand where prohibited
by scripture.
Iflyfishbajalera - 3-23-2008 at 03:35 PM
Thanks, you all.
Barco gives no reasons, but says that in some places men urinated squatting while women did it standing up. In other areas women squatted and men
stood--and elsewhere, men and women either squatted or stood, as each saw fit
More than anyone really cares to know about peninsula urination.....DENNIS - 3-23-2008 at 04:13 PM
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Originally posted by bajalera
peninsula urination.....
Another Freudian concept.sylens - 3-24-2008 at 10:08 AM
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Originally posted by DENNIS
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peninsula urination.....
