Yalensky wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 3:09 pm
next: strike, work stoppage
Play:
faya pap ka , "slave attack event"
patap sanu , "to play at work; to give oneself dessert". The Play party was founded in the year 4127 by female slaves rebelling against the ruling Leaper party. To them, all work was slavery, because although some slaves were paid, they were paid only with the things they needed to survive, and thus they were bound to their plantations and labor camps.
The Players were able to defeat their Leaper overseers without violence by agreeing to all stop work at the same time. There were tens of thousands of slaves confined in a relatively small area, so they were able to communicate quickly. An unrelated war broke out soon afterwards, and although it was difficult, the Players won this conflict as well. Military victory turned the Players into the unquestioned ruler of their empire, and as they gained converts, they became effectively a tribe.
The word I translate as
dessert here has the specific narrow sense "intangible reward earned by hard work", thus suggesting a period of play time after a long period of work. For children, and with the classifier prefix
mi-, it would take on the very same meaning it has in English: a sweet food eaten after one has finished a healthy but not very appetizing meal.
Poswa:
I could theoretically derive the Play words into Poswa as
waepapa and
pappwa respectively, but the morpheme order is different than what would be expected for Poswa, so I want new coinages.
Even the most trusted workers in the Poswob Empire are routinely trapped in their workplaces by trained animals so that they cannot escape. To strike, one would need to avoid showing up for work in the first place. Thus a "play at work" metaphor is not possible.
tšušas "doing work only to survive; conserving energy". This is a word people could use to describe what they do during a strike. Though not etymologically related, this describes the lifestyle of the newly independent Player state many thousands of years earlier: the Players believed it was possible to run a nation entirely without labor, and therefore refused to do anything at all aside from grabbing ready-to-eat foods they saw right in front of them.
džusompala, "to avoid a workplace".
Both of these could be turned into nouns with a nominalizing suffix such as /-V-p/ or /-V-na/, but the verbal form would see the most use. Plural verb marker is /-w-V-š-V/, so e.g.
tšuššwošo "we're on strike", etc.
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