tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 16 17:50:40 1998
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Re: Peacemaker
ja' Qermaq:
>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?
It seems to me that the noun {roj} might have come to be used as a verb
after Riva showed a procedure that could be described as "making peace".
So the ancient Klingon Dictionary might have omitted not only {rojwI'}
but also the verb {roj}. But of course I don't know any of this...
-- ghunchu'wI'