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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/29/2017 10:45 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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<pre wrap="">However, lets return to the {-chuqmoH}. We have the canon sentence
{Qo'noS tuqmey muvchuqmoH qeylIS}.
As you wrote: "There are two ways to interpret muvchuqmoH:
[muvchuq]moH he (singular subject) causes them (plural object) to join
each other and [muv]chuq[moH] they (plural, reflexive subject) cause
each other to join."
So, if I understand correctly what has been explained so far, then the
following two sentences are correct:
{verengan Duj vIHIvchuqmoH jIH}
I caused the ferengi ships to attack each other
{HIvchuqmoH verengan Duj}
the ferengi ships caused each other to attack each other</pre>
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<p>That last one is <i>the Ferengi ships cause each other to attack</i>
or <i>the Ferengi ship causes someone unspecified to attack each
other.</i> In neither case does the subject attack itself.<br>
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<pre wrap="">But if I wrote:
{verengan Duj luHIvchuqmoH cha' Duj nov}
two alien ships caused each other to attack the ferengi ship
{verengan Duj DIHIvchuqmoH maH tlhIH je}
We and you caused each other to attack the ferengi ships
Then both of these sentences are wrong.
Is my understanding correct ?</pre>
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<p>Yes. Unless Klingon allows reflexive verbs to also take objects,
which there is, I think, slight evidence of. For example, the
thinking goes that you can't say <b>tuqlIj qun wIja'chuq.</b></p>
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