<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</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">Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 17, 2025<br>
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Klingon word: rubyo'<br>
Part of speech: noun<br>
Definition: politician<br>
Source: qep'a' 28 [2021]<br>
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(qep'a' 2021): "grammatically: language user" <br>
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PUN: U.S. politician Marco Rubio<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>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?<br><br>OTOH I'm hard-pressed to come up with an alternative explanation.</div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>
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