Religious prophets tend to come with a message from a divine source, and then speaks on a deities behalf. Klingons killed their deities, so they probably don't think they can send messages anymore. :D Secular prophets tend to come with a message based on knowledge and experience. Someone who somehow accurately knows when economic bubbles will pop before they do might be considered a prophet. A Klingon general that has the knack of knowing exactly when and where a enemy is attacking might be considered one too. Lieven, did we get a word for "prophet" and I missed it? qurgh On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. <nahqun@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, so, I'm missing how this different from a religious prophet.
I'd assume that, with context, one could refer to both Moses and a fortune teller.
Or is there a connotation or denotation that specifically prohibits this word from being used to refer to a religious figure?
~Michael Roney, Jr. Sent from my Palm Prē
-------- Original message -------- From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> Date: 1/1/18 16:28 (GMT-05:00) To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] Some more from Maltz
Here is some information from Maltz that I can forward with NO SPOILERS concerning the coming episodes of ST:Discovery:
Okrand suggested a way to say "polite" in Klingon, using {DochHa'}. For the glossary, he added: ------------------------- "be polite" is okay. Also "be civil, courteous." Very un-Klingon! -------------------------
Next, we talked about a "prophet". Not the religious person like Jesus or Mohammed, but more some kind of a person who seems to be able to see or know things that others can't.
Okrand forwarded this from Maltz:
------------------------- This is a {tuch rItwI'} (or, if the context is clear, {rItwI'} for short). {tuch rIt} means "to prophesize, see the future, know the future." For Klingons, the "prophet" is able to "summon" the future somehow. -------------------------
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