<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 2:16 PM mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>So, I took the opportunity of this thread, to express my problem with<br>
the {tlhIngan maH! taHjaj!}..<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>bo'Dagh'a'vetlh Dalo'nISbe'. </b>That phrasing is fine (it's just not intended to be a literal translation) and I would say so even if it had never appeared on screen. I also don't see a problem with <b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bIvoqbe' 'ej muSuj.</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> The fact that you can't use <b>'e'</b> as a subject doesn't mean there's no way to refer to a previous utterance as the subject. It just means you can't use <b>'e'</b> to do it. Words like <b>ghu'vam</b> or <b>ngoDvam</b> are one option. The example of <b>Do'Ha'</b> suggests you can also do it with just an unstated third-person subject. <br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">(I'm still looking for other examples. <b>qay'be'</b> used as "No problem!" is one; the subject presumably refers to the thing the speaker was just told or asked to do. The use of <b>rIntaH</b> and <b>qar'a'</b> as "auxiliary verbs" are also examples, though they're a little weird grammatically.)<br></span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></span></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div></div></div></div>