[tlhIngan Hol] Placement of the qatlh

[SuStel]

On 2/18/2019 5:49 PM, Will Martin wrote:
> SuStel is absolutely right. One might choose to work around this the 
> same way that American Sign Language does it.
>
> They don’t have relative pronouns or relative clauses at all. Instead, 
> they pair a rhetorical question with its answer. It’s nearly identical 
> to your attempt, but there is no Sentence As Object. It’s just two 
> sentence next to each other:
>
> chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’? jISov.
>
> or
>
> chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’? mIw vISov.
>
> This lacks the “Question As Object” illegal grammar. It’s perfectly 
> legal, and accomplishes the same goal. It’s not like English, but it 
> conveys the meaning.

Not my preferred solution. Rhetorical questions to avoid illegal grammar 
seem very out of character for the language. I'm not saying it can't be 
done or that Klingons don't do it, mind you.

A better solution: *Duj chenmoHmeH mIw vISov*/I know the ship-making 
procedure./

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SuStel
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