On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:23 AM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

No, but I didn't say he can't say his sentence because Klingon pronouns can't be used without an antecedent. Indeed, I didn't say he can't say that sentence. He was pushing the boundary of what was acceptable, because he claimed his proposed pronoun 'oH was referring to an antecedent ngoDvam that wasn't present in the sentence, but what he was doing was functionally equivalent to using 'e' as a subject, which definitely isn't allowed.

If you have to say it this way, just state ngoDvam outright and you'll have a much stronger sentence.

I'm not sure Klingon is quite so strict. There are examples where an unspecified third-person subject is taken to be a previous sentence or previously-mentioned situation. For instance, there's the TKD phrase Do'Ha', translated as "that is unfortunate" in the useful phrases list. With your stricter interpretation, it would probably have to be Do'Ha' ghu'vetlh or Do'Ha' wanI'vetlh.

(I'm sure there are other examples, but it's not easy to search for them...)