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Re: Negative constructions.
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Question: if this perhaps is some sort of Celtic feature that has made
its
> way into the continental Romance languages, should it not also end up in
> Brithenig. [Kernu already makes use of ne...rhen for negation, but in
all
> honesty this is as much a tendency towards excessive negation as any
> (hertofore unwot of) underlying Celtic feature.]
>
This feature is a part of Brithenig. Brithenig uses (nasal)...rhen
similar to the ne...(emphatic) found in Welsh and the Romance languages.
It also has (nasal)...nonc.
>
> Any thoughts on how this could/should fit? It makes perfect sense to me
> that native speakers might use such turns of phrase as emphatics; but
what
> about the possibility of making it systemic (ie., more or less
required)?
>
> ... ill ces tostad ti blegh, no?
> ooo!, eo n'ai mannugad mech alch clas di ces tostad in -- eo ne sab
puith
> cant muis! ...
>
It took me several minutes looking at this to translate it. I'm getting
rusty in my own language!
>
>
And now I'm pleased to announce the Brithenig distribution list has been
updated. John Cowan joins us. This gives us all an opportunity to say:
Benwenid, Welcome.
For your address book our list is now:
Padraic Brown [email protected]
John Cowan [email protected],
Andrew Smith [email protected],
Peter Skye [email protected],
Ray Brown [email protected]
John Schilke [email protected]
We are growing.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith <[email protected]>
Life is short, so am I...