[87609] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: qoSwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Lytle)
Wed Jan 6 11:28:52 2010
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:26:59 -0500
From: Steven Lytle <lytlesw@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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More Klingon-like would be something like "DaHjaj qaS qoSwIj".
lay'tel SIvten
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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