mev may'; 'e' wuq la', 'a ngugh paS.
the battle stops; the commander decides that, but then it is late.

instead of {wuq} you could use {nID}, for "the commander attempts that", and of course if you want to express the "too late" concept you can write {paSqu'}.

qunnoH
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'


On 28 Oct 2016 7:22 am, "Alan Anderson" <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Juliana Bukoski <jfbukoski@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you say "too late"?

{narghpu' 'eb} "the opportunity has escaped"

We learned this idiom in January of 1998 on the now-defunct
startrek.expertforum MSN newsgroup.
Here's a link to a copy of Marc Okrand's note about it in the
tlhIngan-Hol archives:
  http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1998/January/msg00449.html

>  (Also, is it "mevmoH" or just "mev"?)

It's just {mev}, based on the example of {bIjatlh 'e' yImev}.

-- ghunchu'wI'
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