<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">SuStel is absolutely right. One might choose to work around this the same way that American Sign Language does it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’? jISov.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">or</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’? mIw vISov.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 18, 2019, at 2:09 PM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/2019 11:34 AM, Jeffrey Clark
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On Feb 18, 2019, at 11:29, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:bd843c89-2e17-21c4-b317-b3d48eb7c124@gmx.de" class="">{chay'
Duj chenmoHlu' 'e' vISov} <br class="">
"I know how the ship is constructed." <br class="">
</blockquote><p class="">No. This is a relative pronoun in English, and cannot be
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<div class="">Different context, but would the following be valid?</div>
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<div class="">{chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’ ‘e’ vIjanglaH}</div>
<div class="">“How is the ship constructed, I can answer that.”</div>
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<div class="">Or is it still problematic?</div>
</blockquote><p class="">Same problem. It's treating <b class="">chay'</b> like a relative
pronoun, which isn't the case in Klingon.<br class="">
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