Thank you again, De'vID and Lieven, as well as charghwI', Voragh and ghunchu'wI' for your replies and really interesting suggestions! Just as an aside. In the quoted message (http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-01-18b-news.txt, http://klingon.wiki/En/Ste_1998-01-18b) we read:
But in the example sentence ("I was too late to visit you"), the phrase "too late" doesn't mean "very late"; it means "excessively late" or "overly late." Thus using {paSqu'} might not be the best course in the first place. It doesn't get across the idea of going beyond some cutoff point.
Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'm not totally sure if I understand it right. My question is: Could a sentence like *qaSuchmeH tlhoy jIpaS* also work? I.e. using *tlhoy* to render the meaning *I was too late to visit you (so I didn't visit you)*. As far as I know the word *tlhoy* didn't exist yet at the time the message was written, right?