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A) Remember parsnip-indecisive Owen?
[Mae pannas gan Owen / Owen has parsnips]
B) Welsh possessive confuses me. As far as I can tell, in a sentence "X has Y", Y is the grammatical subject -- I have an orange cat (yes, they gave me that sentence!
) is Mae gen i gath oren, where mae is third person and not first person -- but also things change; I also got
[Mae draig ddu gyda fi / I have a black dragon]
and I *think* fi glosses directly as me rather than I, which makes sense from the standpoint of the possessed being the grammatical subject -- Russian also does "at me is thing" rather than "I have a thing", so "is dragon black belonging me" works, but then why is it Mae gen i gath oren and wah -- unless gen and gyda actually belong to two different verbs -- *quiet sobbing*
C) I hit a pretty streak number today.
[555 days!]
Next major goal: 730 (hahaha yeah right)
Cross-posted between DW (here) and LJ. Comments welcome in either place; DW has
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[Mae pannas gan Owen / Owen has parsnips]
B) Welsh possessive confuses me. As far as I can tell, in a sentence "X has Y", Y is the grammatical subject -- I have an orange cat (yes, they gave me that sentence!
) is Mae gen i gath oren, where mae is third person and not first person -- but also things change; I also got
[Mae draig ddu gyda fi / I have a black dragon]
and I *think* fi glosses directly as me rather than I, which makes sense from the standpoint of the possessed being the grammatical subject -- Russian also does "at me is thing" rather than "I have a thing", so "is dragon black belonging me" works, but then why is it Mae gen i gath oren and wah -- unless gen and gyda actually belong to two different verbs -- *quiet sobbing*
C) I hit a pretty streak number today.
[555 days!]
Next major goal: 730 (hahaha yeah right)
Cross-posted between DW (here) and LJ. Comments welcome in either place; DW has
comments