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Re: qoSwIj

Mark J. Reed ([email protected])

• From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: qoSwIj
• Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:07:22 -0500
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I would tend to question the translation {DaHjaj qoSwIj 'oH}.  "Today
it is my birthday" is fine in English, but it's one of those weird
idiomatic uses of "it" that lacks an antecedent (like "It's hot out",
"It's seven o'clock").  Do we have evidence that Klingon does
something similar?

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