I'm trying to say: "The commander decides to stop the battle, but it is too late" (as in, the battle is already well underway). The best I can do at the moment is just: may' mevmoH 'e' wuq la' 'ach Suvqu' Hoch How do you say "too late"? (Also, is it "mevmoH" or just "mev"?) Juliana
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'
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}.
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