tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 19 11:58:55 1996
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ghItlh Eskil Heyn Olsen:
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I was trying to translate "This is the first time I see a ferengi",
and avoiding using "poH wa'DIch" after seeing the discussion. Came up
with {DaH verengan vIlegh 'e' qaSbe'pu'} hopefully meaning "Now I see
a ferengi, that has not happened before" (this ofcourse refers to the
salesman at the qep'a' with the band-aids {naghHom ram 'oH yabDaj}).
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Try
verengan vIleghbe'pu', 'ach DaH vIlegh
Your construction won't work because <'e'> doesn't work that way.
<'e'> can only be the object of a verb, not the subject. Your Klingon
sentence has <'e'> in object position (of <qaS>), but your English has it
as subject (of "happen"), and of these two only the English makes
sense: what's the subject of <qaS>?
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