10 Jun
2024
10 Jun
'24
9:03 p.m.
But {Sov} and {SIv} don't work the same way. It is stated that {SIv} can be used after {'e'} and then explicitly can be translated as "to wonder if". The semantics of the verb allow this reading. Not so with {Sov}. Here you'd have a question as the object, which isn't allowed in Klingon. chabwIj nIHpu' Mike 'e' vISovbe'
I don't know whether Mike stole my pie.
I don't accept this translation. That sentence can only mean: "I don't know that Mike stole my pie." (or perhaps in a more usual context "I didn't know that...") Think of {SIv} as "I want to know the truth value of the sentence..." which is essentially what "wonder if" means. {Sov} doesn't seem to have that particular reading. — André / Vortarulo