[tlhIngan Hol] muvchuqmoH. seriously ?

[SuStel]

On 7/28/2016 3:01 PM, Alan Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:48 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>> If I wanted to say I cause the Klingon to please himself, that could be tlhIngan vIbel'eghmoH jIH.
> I'm unable to parse that in a way that makes sense. It seems to be
> missing something, but I can't quite figure out what. The more I look
> at it, the less I understand it.
>
>> I am doing something. Something is being done to the Klingon. Subject and object. The -'egh tells me that the performer of bel (and not the subject, as TKD says) pleases himself; the -moH tells me that the subject of the sentence causes the action to happen.
> {bel} is "be pleased", so {bel'egh} is weird. It would have to be
> {bel'eghmoH} to become "make himself pleased" or "please
> himself"...but then there's no way to add another subject causing the
> action without using an additional verb.

You're right, that example doesn't work. I think I was slipping into 
thinking *bel* was /please./

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SuStel
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