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 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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