Some language textbooks call this sort of sentence an "unreal condition". We need Okrand/Maltz to reveal a one-syllable or two-syllable particle which means "this is not true, but assume for the moment that it is true" or similar, that could be put in if-clauses and when-ckauses and suchlike, and/or into a clause that governs such a clause.<br><br><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left:15px;">----Original message----<br>From : mihkoun@gmail.com<br>Date : 03/11/2016 - 14:34 (GMTST)<br>To : tlhingan-hol@kli.org<br>Subject : [tlhIngan Hol] A thought on the irrealis construction<br><br><p dir="ltr">I remember having discussed here, that klingon doesn't possess the grammar to say "if klingon possessed an irrealis suffix, then I wouldn't be writing this post".</p>
<p dir="ltr">So far so good..</p>
<p dir="ltr">I've been trying to find a way to overcome this problem, and I thought of the following approach:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Lets say, I want to write "if I possessed foresight, I would have known my dog is stupid". If I write:</p>
<p dir="ltr">{'op ben leSSov vIghajbe', 'ach ngugh vIghajchugh..}</p>....<br><br></blockquote><p></p>