Do you study or work?
Vintage and old-fashioned (though still used) Spanish pick-up line that should be better rendered as: “Do you study or are you a NEET?”. Now, “Come here often?” is preferred, although this one is starting to stink too.
We have a disjunctive question, which in Latin are in the indicative, unless there’s some special aspect, which is not the case.
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There are several ways to express the disjunctive question in Latin. According to Spanish grammarian Bassols, the commonest is utrum … an; then, ‑ne … an; etc. The first option goes against the spontaneity of the question, so a monosyllabic enclitic fits better; also, ‑ne became disused during imperial times, which suits much better our question.
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