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In Cristina Henriquez' novel "El Libro de Los Americanos Desconocidos" (very interesting so far, by the way) there is this:
"¿Que qué tal ha ido?"
Is this double "que" redundant? Is it simply indicating that the speaker stuttered, or...?
google translate gives me for this, "they did it go?" - obviously not very helpful.
ESPAÑOL - English follows
Puede ser una frase correcta.
Persona 1 - ¿Qué tal me ha ido?
Persona 2- ¿Que qué tal te ha ido? Te ha ido mal, porque no lo intentaste lo suficiente.
Es una forma abreviada de preguntar:
Persona 2 - ¿En serio? ¿Me estás preguntando que "qué tal te ha ido"?
ENGLISH
It may be a correct sentence.
Person 1 - ¿Qué tal me ha ido? (How did it go for me?)
Person 2- ¿Que qué tal te ha ido? Te ha ido mal, porque no lo intentaste lo suficiente. (How did it go for you? It went bad, because you did not tried hard enough).
It is an abbreviated form of asking: Person 2 - Really? Are you asking me that "how did it go for you"?
