[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: roj

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Mon Mar 18 14:41:15 PDT 2019


On 3/18/2019 5:35 PM, De'vID wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 16:30, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name 
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
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>     On 3/18/2019 11:05 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>>     Klingon had no word for peacemaker until the Klingons encountered deaf mediator Riva of Ramatis III, who helped negotiate several treaties between the Klingons and the Federation. Worf didn't view it as a compliment. (TNG "Loud as a Whisper")
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>     Which is obviously bunk, since *rojmoHwI'* is a pretty easy word
>     to figure out.
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> {rojmoHwI'} or {rojwI'}?

Either. I have always thought of *roj*/make peace/ to mean something 
like *marojpu'*/we made peace (with each other)./ The word doesn't seem 
like something you do to someone else. Therefore, the facilitator of our 
making peace is a *rojmoHwI'.*

But if *roj*/make peace/ means to cause peace to come into existence, 
without necessarily implying that you were the one not at peace before, 
then *rojwI'* would work.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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