<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">De'vID:</div><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Even then, what's the connection between Okrand and the U.S. Senator for Florida? If it were a reference to a real-life politician, I'd have expected something closer to home or with a personal connection to him.</div></blockquote><div style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br></div><div style=""><font face="Arial">Well, I searched for "Rubio" and "politician" on the Internet and found this:</font></div><div style=""><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style=""><ol><li><span><font face="Arial"></font> There are couple dozen politicians named Rubio. Is any of them more familiar with Okrand than the Florida one?</span></li><li><span> There are also characters in some TV series named Rubio. Is any of these known in the US?</span></li><ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;"><li><span> A Catalan series Merlí has a character called "Pol Rubio".</span></li><li><span> A Filipino series Bayan Ko has a corrupt politician called "Antonio Rubio".</span></li></ol></ol><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Iikka "fergusq" Hauhio</span></div></div><div class="protonmail_quote">
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On Thursday, August 4th, 2022 at 08.55, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 3:20 AM nIqolay Q <<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:niqolay0@gmail.com">niqolay0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><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 dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 5:17 PM De'vID <<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" target="_blank">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">The <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://www.kli.org/chabal-archive/politician/" target="_blank">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">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></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Even then, what's the connection between Okrand and the U.S. Senator for Florida? If it were a reference to a real-life politician, I'd have expected something closer to home or with a personal connection to him. <div><br></div><div>Like with "Tikriti", I feel like it's a genuine coincidence: the story fits, but it just happens to fit by accident. I think the "Texas Tea" explanation is obviously right for {yItQet}, because his "coincidences'', when they are references and not wordplay, are most often about TV or film pop culture, and occasionally to people he knows in real life.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>
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