[87596] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: qoSwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Tue Jan 5 07:10:25 2010
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:07:22 -0500
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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I would tend to question the translation {DaHjaj qoSwIj 'oH}. "Today
it is my birthday" is fine in English, but it's one of those weird
idiomatic uses of "it" that lacks an antecedent (like "It's hot out",
"It's seven o'clock"). Do we have evidence that Klingon does
something similar?
