<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On second look, your suggestion is a jewel. It is grammatically ambiguous, but both interpretations have the same meaning. <div><br></div><div>The {-meH} clause can apply to either the object or the main verb. Either you know the ship building method, or, for the purpose of building a ship, you know a method. </div><div><br></div><div>Beautiful. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone. <br><div>charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:48 PM, Will Martin <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com">willmartin2@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Excellent suggestion. While I suspect either would work in conversation, I prefer your suggestion to mine. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone. <br><div>charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 18, 2019, at 6:00 PM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/2019 5:49 PM, Will Martin
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<div class="">SuStel is absolutely right. One might choose to work
around this the same way that American Sign Language does it.</div>
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<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>
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<div class="">chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’? jISov.</div>
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<div class="">chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’? mIw vISov.</div>
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<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>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>A better solution: <b>Duj chenmoHmeH mIw vISov</b><i> I know the
ship-making procedure.</i><br>
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