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)
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:
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"be polite" is okay. Also "be civil, courteous." Very un-Klingon!
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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:

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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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