Round 14 Hour 12

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

People were waking up and going to bed this last hour, I was procrastinating wildly by trying to learn how to say 'I'm doing my gaelic homework' in gaelic. I now know how to say it in Irish which is a start I supppose.

Tell me about your productivity or wild procrastination!

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Typical! I manage to wrangle the plot bunnies into some sort of order and have got 150+ words of a sequel to my Eight & Liz fic down - and I have to go to work in under an hour! GAH!

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

Argh, most frustrating. Looking forward to reading Eight and Liz fic once you do get it down though. :)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It's a combination of Classic and New Who characters, and a tag fic for an SJA episode... Nothing like mixing it up!

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

That is some cool procrastination.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

Thank you. My procrastination is often more complex than the stuff i'm procrastinating from.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I could tell you how to say it in Welsh!

Which is a lot less like Gaelic than Irish, mind.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

I would like to know how to say it in Welsh!

It is very different, yes, though sometimes now I find that certain Welsh words look sort of similar to Gaelic words (though we don't have w or y in Gaelic) and then turn out to mean the same thing. It's strange how some things in Irish are practically identical to Gaelic, just different spelling/pronunciation and others are completely different.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I was actually quite surprised to see that the syntax isn't all that different, I was led to believe it's very different between Welsh and Irish, but when I looked at Irish it looked a bit familiar! But yeah, there are a lot of similar words - and then words that have similar origins but were changed due weird linguistics stuff, like clan in Irish that comes from the same origin as 'plant' in Welsh and both mean 'children'.

Anyway, Mae mi yn gwneud fy ngwaith cartref. (Which, if I got it right, should mean exactly the same as "I am doing my homework", this structure in Welsh is probably the origin for the English be + verb + ing structure).

I'm not convinced about the first part though. It's SUPPOSED theoretically to be that way, but I've always seen it with a)3rd person and b) the past tense(ie oedd ef yn gwneud, oedd being "was" and ef "he"). So let's go with the "maybe". There probably is a single verb form that can work here better, but I can't think of one I'd be happy with. Conclusion: go back and study more Welsh!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Tha mi a' deanamh an obair-dachaigh gàidhlig agam.

Or similar - it looks a bit clumsy but that might just be that I've never used that word for homework before. What do you have in Irish?