<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun., Feb. 14, 2021, 14:35 SuStel, <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 2/14/2021 8:24 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">Because if the {'e' neHbe' vavoy} was written by
maltz himself, then it'd be sooo tempting to start {'e' neH}ing
like there's no tomorrow..</div>
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<p>Marc Okrand wrote the line.</p></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not quite. Azetbur's original lines had {vavwI'} instead of {vavoy}. The director told the actress to say that word more softly, and the {qaghwI'} became inaudible. Dr. Okrand decided it sounded like {vavoy} and that's how the {-oy} suffix was created.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So many of the movie lines were changed because of production and editing reasons that it's hard to attribute intent to Dr. Okrand, whose hands were forced, as it were, to retroactively make official whatever the actors/directors/editors ended up doing. (So it's possible that the {'e'} ended up in that sentence contrary to his original intent.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">De'vID</div></div>