[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: gharwI'

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, January 01, 2013
> 
> Klingon word:   gharwI'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     diplomat

As used in a sentence:

wa' vub ghaH tlhIngan gharwI''e' 
One hostage is a Klingon diplomat. (ST5 notes)

Diplomacy in Trek:

"We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis." (Spock, TOS "The Mark of Gideon")

"the only tool diplomacy has is language." (Amb. Hodin, TOS "The Mark of Gideon")]

"I'm a soldier, not a diplomat." (Kirk, TOS "Errand of Mercy")

"Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results." (Spock, TOS "The Mark of Gideon")

"Just when I was beginning to think you might find a new career as a diplomat!" (McCoy to Spock, TOS "The Mark of Gideon")

Future Alexander became a diplomat, a peacemaker on the Klingon Homeworld. "The cause of peace *is* an honorable one." (Worf to Future-Alexander, TNG "Firstborn")

Klingon had no word for "peacemaker" until the Klingons encountered deaf mediator Riva of Ramatis III, who helped negotiate several treaties between the Klingons and the Federation. Worf didn't view it as a compliment. (TNG "Loud as a Whisper")

Related words:

ghar  		diplomacy (n)
ghar			conduct diplomacy (v)

Duy 			agent, emissary (n),
Duy'a' 		ambassador (n)
jojlu' 		consul  (n)
'oSwI' 		emissary (n)
'oDwI' 		arbitrator, arbiter (n)

roj  		make peace (v)
Sutlh 		negotiate (v)
tlhong 		barter, bargain (v)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons