[tlhIngan Hol] The book of our good captain

[Lieven]

Am 13.07.2016 um 16:10 schrieb De'vID:> I was under the impression that 
what was considered incorrect was
> *misinterpreting* the question word in a QAO sentence as a relative
> pronoun.

Yeeeeeesss - that what I meant :-)

> For example, {nuq vIghaj 'e' DaSov} appears to me to be a perfectly
> good Klingon question meaning "what do you know I have?" Isn't the QAO
> error just in misinterpreting this sentence to mean "you know what I
> have" (using {nuq} "what" as a relative pronoun)?

Indeed.

> What's the rationale for saying that QAO *constructions* are illegal,
> rather than just that they shouldn't be *misinterpreted* as statements
> with relative pronouns?

A subtle difference that should be written down somewhere :-)

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