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[kittydesade]

Cé mhéad? How much? can be used in a number of ways.
Cé mhéad é seo? How much is this? or
Cé mhéad a chosnaíonn sé seo? How much does this cost?

It is also possible to use Cad with cosnaíonnn:
Cad a chosnaíonn sé seo? What does this cost?

There is another idiomatic construction along the lines of How much (what) is on it?
Cé mhéad atá air? How much is it?
Cad tá orthu seo? How much are these?

Pounds and pence!
punt, dhá phunt, trí phunt, ceithre phunt, cúig phunt, sé phunt, seacht bpunt, ocht bpunt, naoi bpunt, deich bpunt, aon phunt déag
pingin, dhá phingin, trí phingine, ceithre phingine, cúig pingine, sé pingine, seacht bpingine, ocht bpingine, naoi bpingine, deich bpingine, aon phingin déag
dhá phunt déag - twelve pounds
cúig pingine déag - fifteen pence
fiche pingin - twenty pence
caoga punt - fifty pounds (also leathchéad punt - half a hundred pounds)

Ró - too
daor, ró-dhaor - dear, too dear
trom, ró-throm - heavy, too heavy
mór, ró-mhór - big, too big
beag, ró-bheag - small, too small
tirim, ró-thirim - dry, too dry
éadrom, ró-éadrom - light, too light


No, yeah, still giddy over the fact that I made a web page in freaking Russian. And German. But mostly the Russian. It was hard, it was a pain in the ass, but it was a fun pain in the ass and I did it. Especially since some of the hard was finding equivalents for specfic terms in Russian. I forgot about that and what a pain in the ass it's likely to be. I mean, I'm very familiar with English (obviously) and even Spanish, and I can probably play around with words to get them to mean other things, but Russian? Fucking forget it. At least for now. But yeah, my website has a Russian and German language mirror index page. I did that. And soon, it will have at least several pages mirrored in other languages.

... which, crap, reminds me that if I'm going to translate my short stories, I should make spaces to put those in links on the stories themselves. ... This is gonna get really complicated.

The Haven Herald blog post turned out to be way meatier than I ever expected; if I'd realized it was going to be that detailed I would have started on it way way sooner. But, it's up. It exists. Now all I have to do is Person of Interest tonight and tomorrow and I think from here on out it's pretty much, PoI and Grimm per week until Grimm goes off, and then Haven and PoI per week. Holy damn, I didn't realize we were down that far. I think I like this much better than endless essays on top of recaplyses! And I suppose if we ever find ourselves lacking for material, we can do cancelled shows.

Right. Ahem, anyway, statement of intent for today: Line edits, at least one scene in, and mirror index pages in Spanish and French as well as picking things to translate for Russian and German practice, and pulling quotes for a Behind the Scenes at Murderboarding. Tonight, Person of Interest, however deep towards the end of it I/we get and then finishing that tomorrow morning. Fortunately it's not really a metaplot heavy episode so it shouldn't take too long. Christ, how the hell did it get to be Friday again? Not that I'm complaining, really. I could use a weekend.