[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: rubyo'

[Steven Boozer]

Okrand may not live in Florida but IIRC Senator Rubio was being mentioned in the national news a lot 4 or 5 years ago.  Perhaps Okrand just liked the sound of this politician’s name.  (He’s in the news again…  he became U.S. Secretary of State yesterday!)

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Voragh


From: De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2025 4:34 PM

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org>> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 17, 2025

Klingon word: rubyo'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: politician
Source: qep'a' 28 [2021]
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PUN: U.S. politician Marco Rubio

Do we have reason to believe that this is a reference to Marco Rubio, other than the phonetic resemblance? It seems out of character for Okrand. While there are references to real-life people in the vocabulary, they have tended to be either people in Okrand's life or from the entertainment industry (either real people or the names of characters). AFAIK Okrand doesn't live in Florida, where Rubio is senator, so what is the connection?

OTOH I'm hard-pressed to come up with an alternative explanation.

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De'vID
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