<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="">Once again, your analysis is excellent. Question words are chuvmey and they stand in for the things I said they stand in for. I should have said that {nuq} stands in for a noun and can’t stand in for anything but a noun.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{yIH nuq} works because {nuq} sort of works like a pronoun, except when it doesn’t. Considering that the correct answer would be {Ha’DIbaH ‘oH yIH’e’} it’s pretty clear that {yIH nuq} is probably a shortened version of {nuq ‘oH yIH’e’}. The word {nuq} absorbs the meaning of {nuq ‘oH}, and with a single noun combined with the resulting chuv acting as a pronoun, the noun comes first. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We don’t say *{nuq yIH} for the same reason we don’t say *{maH tlhIngan}. When one noun forms a sentence with a pronoun, the noun comes first.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 13, 2020, at 10:53 AM, 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 7/13/2020 10:37 AM, Will Martin
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:052A2484-0775-42AC-92A2-F9E72F425E66@mac.com" class="">the
Klingon word {nuq} is a noun. It’s never anything but a noun.</blockquote><p class="">The Klingon word <b class="">nuq</b> is a <b class="">chuv.</b> it's never
anything but a <b class="">chuv.</b> However, it can <i class="">stand in</i> for
a noun. We have a term for words that stand in for nouns: <i class="">pronouns.</i>
And we know something else about Klingon pronouns: they can be
used in copulas, where one word gets identified with another word.
<b class="">yIH nuq?</b><b class=""><br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:052A2484-0775-42AC-92A2-F9E72F425E66@mac.com" class=""> You can’t
use it in any question that tries to ask a question that is not
answered by the statement formed by repeating the question with
{nuq} replaced by the noun it stands for.</blockquote><p class="">In basic sentences, this is correct, and I believe your reasoning
for why <b class="">jarlIj qaq nuq</b> doesn't work is also correct.
However, it is not generally true, as the answer to <b class="">yIH nuq</b>
cannot be <b class="">yIH Ha'DIbaH 'up</b><b class=""></b><b class="">.</b><br class="">
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