[tlhIngan Hol] Whether

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Mon Jun 10 16:20:00 PDT 2024


On 6/10/2024 5:19 PM, James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> I was reading the Klingon wiki's page on conjunctions today, and read 
> about the seven (eight if you count *'a'* and *'ach* separately) 
> conjunctions of Klingon, and how other conjunctions are expressed by 
> suffixes.
>
>
> That got me wondering: How is the concept of "whether" expressed in 
> Klingon? How would one say, for instance, "I don't know whether Mike 
> stole my pie"?

chabwIj nIHpu' Mike 'e' vISovbe'
I don't know whether Mike stole my pie.

This is no more unusual than this canonical sentence:

tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh 'e' vISIv
I wonder if you speak Klingon.

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SuStel
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