<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 5:17 PM De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>However, I can't think of what {rubyo'} can be a reference to, except for a very specific politician. Can anyone else have any ideas?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The <a href="https://www.kli.org/chabal-archive/politician/">original request</a> for the word "politician" wasn't entirely value-neutral: "A person who is professionally involved in the
politics. Also a derogatory term for a person who manipulates or pleases
others just to gain own advantage. For example Gowron is described as a
politician in DS9"</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">So it's possible Okrand was thinking more along the lines of the latter half of the request when thinking about specific politicians.<br></div></div></div>