New Year's Resolution - Aged Dragon's Quest!

Welsh General / Questions
#141

And 2.03 with much mouth like goldfish and roughly right words in head, but refusing to emerge!

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#142

Oh hardly!!! i’m just a good bluffer!

#143

Is it possible to lurk on Skype, listening unnoticed and not saying anything unless inspiration strikes?

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#144

In a grwp chat of course. People will know you’re there but you don’t have to say anything.

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#145

I’m not sure I should claim to have finished 2.04 - more wrong than right!

#146

That’s fine - sounds as though you’re getting yourself to the cutting edge, where it will become harder and harder for you to keep believing in the process - because it feels out of control. So this is where we’re going to find out how hard you’re prepared to push…:wink:

#147

I have got involved with trying to set my Skype up! Given my tech nohow, this is causing frustration all round! Doing 2.05 may be a blessed relief!

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#148

Sorry @aran, I am forgetting EVERYTHING new! I think I’m going to have to repeat 2.01 to 2.04 before proceeding. I’m not sure I dare Skype other than to check if everything now works right!

#149

You are ready to skype young lady!

#150

Or you could trust the process, and carry on through to 2.10 or 2.15 before revisiting 2.01… :slight_smile:

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#151

We ALL feel like that during the levels!! I mean this from my experience: you do not know what you remember because you do not have the real experience of using it. This is exactly why you need conversations.

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#152

Started 2.05 again. “I didn’t know!” I thought “i do not know” was: Wn I ddim. So thought didn’t would be derived from that. Not so?

#153

Gwybod and meddwl are different. They’re longer events in Welsh. So you say “I wasn’t knowing/thinking” “do’n i ddim yn gwybod/meddwl” - it translates as “I didn’t know/think”.

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#154

Perfect!
Or you can even say
Dw i’n dysgu fel y galla i wella
I am learning so that I can improve

which precisely mirrors your original! :slight_smile:

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#155

It’s oedd o mor dew - remember never to use yn before mor, it replaces it instead! :slight_smile:

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#156

Is this the same as “dal” for still?

#157

It’s not a naughty habit, it’s a good habit - the word was originally nw, then the academics added a superfluous -h- by influence of the Literary Welsh equivalent hwy. Then later people started pronouncing the -h-, thinking they ought to because of the spelling! Nw is the true word, and what native speakers always used to say. Though I must admit the hypercorrection nHw is gaining ground in the media…

Lately I’ve heard some people on the media pronouncing the -b- in debt …exactly the same thing: the word was always pronounced det in English, then the academics added a -b- because the origin of the word way back is the Latin debitum, and now some people are beginning to think they ought to pronounce it :slight_smile:

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#158

It’s that they are states of mind and not actions - that’s why we use the continuous past for them in Welsh - o’n i’n gwybod I knew, o’n i’n meddwl I thought but not in English, which doesn’t distinguish states and actions in the past tense like Welsh does (although it DOES, funnily enough, in the present tense, where Welsh doesn’t!!) :slight_smile:

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#159

Mae’n ddrwg gei I! I think I have a personal quirk of liking rh, nh etc. I like the sound- never mind the grammar! Oh dear, what a thing to say to you! :wink: except you are very broad minded on the subject! But I am sorry for presuming what I liked was ‘more right’ than what I don’t like! Nasty dragon! :dragon_face:

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#160

I have slowed down with all my tangles with Skype. Only half way through 2.05 and don’t expect to do anymore until Dydd Llun!