If you call me crazy again...

I wrote:

> > "Eneiss te ni ymeth, mathow ni i en ddeun tew."
Gah! Did I write this?! The 2SG pronoun is _che_ and
not _te_. _Te_ is 3PL. Plus I think it looks really weird
with the subjunctive verb _eneiss_ in a non-finite form
without any finite verbs.

I suppose a better version might be:

     "Neg che lleil in eneissidd ni ymeth,
      madow ni i en ddeun chew."

neg        che lleil in eneissidd ni  ymeth,
be:PRS:IRR 2SG FUT   at call:INF  1SG crazy
'If you (will) call me crazy again'

mad-ow       ni  i   en  ddeun chew
eat-FUT:CERT 1SG the eye other 2SG:POSS
'I will eat your other eye (no doubt about it).'

IRR = irrealis
FUT:CERT = future certaintive (give me a better name!)
which means that something really will take place as
opposed to the future intentive which merely means that
you intend to do something, not that it actually is
going to happen.

I'm still very unsure about the subjunctive/irrealis
form. The prepositions are all messed up in my mind
so _in_ 'at' might actually be _an_ or _sen_...

Pronunciation (note that {u} is [i] or [j]):

[nEg xe: KEjl in EnEj'si:D ni: @'mET

ma'dOw ni: i En DEjn xEw]

And then Aidan Grey wrote:

>And its sister lang, Aelya:
>
>"E eneiss che en abhog, maudo ne i ch'en ech eil!"
>/e: enejs xe en a:vog mawdo ne @ xe:n ex ejl/
>
>E  en-eiss      che      en    abhog
>if re-name:SUBJ you:SUBJ I:OBJ crazy
>
>maudo   ne     i   ch'en ech     eil!
>eat:FUT I:subj art eye   you:GEN other
Where did you get the _e_ 'if' from? And how did
you get _eil_ 'other'? I took C. _neun_ from Q.
_neuna_ 'second' since there already is another
word for 'second' in Quenya. (In Swedish, 'other'
and 'second' is actually the same word.)

||| daniel


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