tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 16 11:01:49 1998
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Re: Peacemaker
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Qermaq wrote:
> Another random thought...
>
> I recall a ST:TNG episode entitled "Loud as a Whisper" (I think) where it is
> mentioned that Riva, the mediator, gave Klingons the word 'peacemaker'. I
> don't have the episode info here, but I recall that the Klingons had no such
> word before that moment.
>
> Are we to assume, then, that the construction <rojwI'> was never uttered
> before Riva? Or did he come up with a new word? Or - did the Oxford Klingon
> Dictionary not include <rojwI'> as a separate lexical unit before Riva's
> intervention?
This is too isolated a data point - but it seems unlikely that they really
*lacked* a word for peace. It could mean something"we had the word, but we
didn't know what it meant". Or perhaps a superlative phrase was added to
tlhIngan society "rIva' roj rur rojvam" - "This peace resembles Riva's
peace", to indicate it was a good treaty.
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