(no subject)

[kittydesade]

Questions which begin with expressions such as Cad/Céard? (What?), Cé? (Who?), Cén t-am? (What time?) require the verb to be preceded by a, which causes lenition.

Tosaíonn tú... You begin...
Cén t-am a thosaíonn tú? What time (which) you begin?
Críochnaíonn tú... You finish...
Cén t-am a chríochnaíonn tú? What time (which) you finish?
Déanann tú... You do...
Cad a dhéanann tú? What (is it which) you do?
Cé a bhí leat? Who was with you?

Tá is not lenited, a + tá are written atá:
Tá post agat, an bhfuil? You have a job, don't you?
Cén post atá agat? What job (is it which) you have?

Go leor:
This gives the English word galore. It is used in two ways in Irish: Before a noun (in the genitive case) to mean enough, sufficient
e.g. bla, go leor bla, enough food
airgead, go leor airgid, enough money

After an adjective to mean fairly:
Éirím luath go leor. I get up fairly early.
Téim a chodladh déanach go leor. I go to sleep fairly late.
Tá mé tuirseach go leor. I am fairly tired.


Tired still. Really tired and I wonder if I did something to my shoulder, exercising today. Something small, though. I would really love to reach a point where I'm not spending my entire weekend recovering from the week, hiding and playing online clicky games and avoiding the hell out of everyone so I can sleep and read books and recover. I dislike being that exhausted.

Okay, randomly, the guy who plays the Hound has a slightly more tenor, much more Scottish voice when he's not being the Hound. It amuses me. Still huge, though. And why did they make the Hound talk in RP anyway? Or closeish to it.

Monday Monday Monday. Not much I need to do today, housewise, apparently. Which, if this is indicative of the future, might mean I get out of this with my sanity intact. I do need to plan moving logistics somehow, with the assumption that we actually do close as scheduled this time. Goddess willing. Having a bunch of boxes we can just take over there as soon as we close and get the keys and then change the locks should help. We can move over a bunch of boxes, stick them in the garage and call it good. Hopefully. Maybe put them on a pallet just in case, and cover them with plastic sheeting, but still. We'll figure something out. This is going to be a hellish month, though. I'm already exhausted just thinking about it.

Comments

[kikibug13]

*cuddles*

[lonelywalker]

I got the impression that the northerners were supposed to have regional UK accents and the southerners (or at least the nobility) were more RP. I'm not sure where the Hound is originally from, though.

[kittydesade]

I blame that north = regional on Sean Bean, who is always from Sheffield even when he's from Gondor, Winterfell, or Ireland. But no, I'm not sure where the Hound is originally from. Or, for that matter, why he and the Mountain have a coat of arms despite apparently being not actually noble at all. Probably the only reason the Mountain is a knight is because no one was willing to tell him 'no.'

(I also haven't read the books, in which this might be explained.)

Also the more I look on tumblr and see all this "SANDOR JUST NEEDS TO BE LOVED HE'S REALLY A WOOBIE OMG I WANT TO HUG HIM AND LOVE HIM AND MAKE IT ALL BETTER" the more I really want there to be a Sandor Clegane just for all the disgusted looks and commentary about killers and blood.

[lonelywalker]

Sean Bean was also from that alternate universe where Sheffield is the 51st state of the USA in Missing.

In the books anyone can be made a knight by another knight. So maybe their father was a minor knight, hence the same coat of arms? I suspect there is a detailed wiki explanation, but if I look for it I might never escape.

Well, that's Tumblr for you. You can really replace "Sandor" in that sentence with any even vaguely villainous character ever. Oh, to live in the Tumblrverse, where everything can be solved by hugs and teddy bears.

[kittydesade]

Ahh yes, I forgot about that. Oh Sean Bean. You're so reliable.

Hurm. Maybe! But yeah, wikis are like that.

It's true. I think it just bugs me more because he's more blatant or vehement about the constant MURDERDEATHKILL. I mean, really. And why is no one woobifying Joffrey? He's a lot like Draco. Where are his leather pants?

[lonelywalker]

Mind you, the series only had four genuine Americans. A lot of the CIA agents were from those lesser-known states of London and Dublin. Which made Sean sound quite American by comparison.

I think Joffrey's a lot more obviously crazy/irredeemable than Draco. Even though you can say a lot of what he is is a direct result of shitty parenting, he's not going to be saved with hugs. Or leather pants. I think Jaime gets the leather pants.

[kittydesade]

... Have you seen the map of the UK (and parts of Europe) according to Americans around tumblr? Or, well, they don't SAY it's according to Americans but that's totally what I thought of. Um. Where'd it go... here!

Possibly true. I never thought there'd be a villain who wouldn't get woobified, but he's pretty horrifying. The actor sounds adorable, from what I've seen in interviews. Personally I wouldn't mind saving him with a crossbow bolt through his face and running off with all of his henchmen. Except Balish. He can get a crossbow bolt through the face too.

[lonelywalker]

I had not! Ha! Ireland has kilts?

The actor is adorable. And hardly ever has anyone's tongue cut out.

Aww, Baelish. See he can be woobified. Even though he has sort of lost the moral high ground through... well... giving away the moral high ground in every which way he possibly could.

[kittydesade]

Apparently! At least according to that map. I was all "where are the football hooligans?" and "But the BEATLES. They're up THERE" and "STONEHENGE, PEOPLE" and other things that even Americans should know what they are. Well, the second and third one of those anyway.

Awww. XD

Given away the moral high ground, I rather think. And the homeworld. I liked him for the first couple episodes I saw him in and then he just smarmed himself right out of my good graces. I'll keep Tyrion, the Hound because at least he's obedient and good at what he does, Bronn for the same reasons (well, if you pay him), and Varys. And everyone else can go straight to the seven hells. Well, Ser Barristan, too, but he kind of went "fuck you all I'm out" early on, so.