The word for "actor"
For a long time, there existed no
canon word to describe an
actor. During the translation process of
Hamlet, the translators of the
KSRP decided to use the verb
Da behave as in combination with the
type 9 verb suffix -wI' someone who does. The found word
DawI' literally means "someone/person who does behave as someone else".
When the verb
ghet pretend was revealed in
2003, it seemed obvious to some people that this would be the better choice to create a noun
ghetwI' for actor, since the description said that
ghet and
ghetwI' pretender generally do not imply deception, but simply role-playing.
Nevertheless,
Marc Okrand has used the word
DawI' in his
message to Kronos, admitting that he had gotten it from the Klingon Hamlet. When asked about which word was correct or if there was a difference in meaning, he only said that it was interesting that there seemed to be two words.
.
So, while there is room to argue whether
ghetwI' would be better,
DawI' is an established, and thus acceptable, term.
The announcement of the Klingon actors for
Star Trek: Discovery used the word
ghetwI', although the phrase provided by
Lawrence M. Schoen used the word
DawI'.
See also
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