tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 10 01:37:23 2003
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Re: lugh'a' mughghachvam?
The sentence, /muDalmoH wanI'vam/ is really saying "This event causes me to be boring"? Here is how I'm looking at it, and see if you still disagree or not. I'm taking the verb /Dal/ which is a descriptive-condition verb (in other words, it's condition is one that describes like an adjective). By placing the verb suffix -moH on it, am I not changing the meaning from "be boring" to "to bore"? Am I not changing its condition from one of description to one of action? In other words, isn't the sentence actually saying, "This event bores me"? If a descriptive verb like the word for "be open" (/poS/) is changed to an action condition with -moH (/poSmoH/ = "to open"), why isn't "be boring" changed to "bore"? What do you think?
taHjaj wo'!
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