ja' charghwI':
But when you combine the yes/no question with the question word question, you are just being grammatically weird and coming up with a story to explain it, apparently expecting the rest of us to approve of this and pretend that it’s a useful grammatical thing to know for the future as we make up future sentences.
I agree with that. Even though it may sound "logical" in that sentence, I doubt it's grammatically correct to have a {legh'a' 'Iv}. The -'a' suffix indicates a yes/no question while the 'Iv requires an answer. In such a situation, I can see Captain Kirk talking to the M-5 computer who destroys himself not knowing what to answer to such a question. {legh'a' 'Iv?} - {HIja'!!} When giving the English example it's also not a yes/no question any more: Does he see it? -> Who does see it? and not "Does who see it?" -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Questions