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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/26/2021 8:27 AM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<div>Years ago, Marc Okrand told me that when he was working on
Star Trek III, before he got the final script with the lines he
was supposed to translate into Klingon, he picked a number of
lines from TOS episodes mostly involving Klingons, to have
examples of the sorts of things he might be expected to
translate. While working on developing the language, he
translated these lines into Klingon to test out his ideas.
(Since he likes to tell the same stories over and over again,
maybe there's a recording of him telling this story.)</div>
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<div>He didn't explicitly say which lines, but he provided enough
information for me to work out one of them, namely the following
line from "Friday's Child": "The rare mineral topaline, vital to
the life-support system of planetoid colonies, has been
discovered in abundance here." You'll notice that every single
word needed to translate this sentence is in TKD ("no bloody
A..."), and in particular, the word {toplIn} appears in no other
TOS episode.</div>
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<p>I'm familiar with the story. I don't think the presence of the
word <b>toplIn</b> points to that sentence being something he
translated. He also gave us words for <i>kevas, t</i><i>rillium,
radan,</i> not because he necessarily translated lines, but
because he took all the made-up Star Trekky foreign words and gave
them Klingon equivalents.</p>
<p>That said, if I were translating the line using only TKD and no
post-TKD clarifications (like the fact that <b>law'</b> doesn't
work for uncountable nouns), I might do it like this:</p>
<p><b>tlhIl qub 'oH toplIn'e'. yuQHom mID yIntaghvaD potlh. naDev
toplIn law' tu'lu'.</b></p>
<p>Nowadays, of course, I'd use <b>vItlh</b> instead of <b>law'.</b><br>
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