[Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'vatlh HutmaH chorgh: loD ghov 'eSSIm

[Robyn Stewart]

I've done a pretty good job of avoiding made up words, but then this 
is almost a made up concept.  I'll think about it. Thank you.

At 18:15 '?????' 6/12/2012, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
>On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>
> >> > [280] The word I really want is "member of the High Council" or
> >> > "Council[l]or" but I need to use it succinctly, and a lot, so 
> a convoluted
> >> > explanation isn't useful. It was pointed out to me that the members were
> >> > called "leaders" in a Skybox card, but it is occasionally 
> confusing because
> >> > he is not the Qang.
> >>
> >> yejquv ngup tuQwI'?
> >
> > Useful as a clear description, but still a little long to be a 
> form of address, or to form a noun-noun compound with.
>
>As a form of address, do you require that it invoke specifically the 
>*High* Council? If brevity is a strong goal, {yejloD} "councilman" 
>could suffice. Gender blindness might make {yejnuv} more acceptable. 
>Brainstorming: yejjoH, rIpjoH, rIpHo', yejqup, rIpDuy... all 
>compounds, but all appropriately understandable.
>
>Or maybe just joH, as has already been used.
>
>-- ghunchu'wI'
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