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[kittydesade]

Remove -ann from the present tense of a Type 1 verb and replace it with -faidh (after the vowels a, o, u) or -fidh (after the vowels i, e). The f of -faidh is usually pronounced h.

fanann, stays
fanfaidh, will stay (pron. fanhí or fanhig)
cuireann, puts/sends
cuirfidh, will put/send (pron. cuirhí)

The -f(a)idh is pronounced hí (or hig in Munster), but before a pronoun it becomes ha or he everywhere, with an obscure vowel. Compare these:

Fanfaidh Síle anseo. Sheila will stay here.
(pron. fanhí/fanhig)
Fanfaidh sí anseo. She will stay here.
(pron. fanha shí)

Here are some examples of other verbs in the future (note that faidh = ha or he before pronouns.)
Déanfaidh mé é sin duit. I'll do that for you. (pron. dénha mé)
Feicfidh mé thú ar a seach. I'll see you at seven. (pron. fece mé)
An gcuirfidh tú glaoch orm. Will you call me. (pron. guirhe tú)
Fanfaidh muid in óstán. We'll stay in a hotel. (pron. fanha mwid)
Scríobhfaidh siad chugainn. They'll write to us. (pron. scrifa shíud)
Fágfaidh mé nóta duit. I'll leave a note for you. (pron. fáca mé)

If a Type 2 verb ends in -aíonn in the present replace that with -óidh. If it ends in -íonn substitute -eoidh.
tosaíonn, begins
tosóidh, wiill begin (pron. tosói or tosóig))
imíonn, goes away
imeoidh, will go away (pron. imeoí or imeóig)

The -(e)oidh is pronounced ói (or óig in Munster), but before a pronoun it becomes ó everywhere. Compare these:
Tosóidh an obair amárach. (pron. tosói/tosóig) The work will start tomorrow.
Tosóidh siad amárach. (pron. tosó shíud) They will start tomorrow.

Here are some examples:
Ceannóidh mé cóta nua. I'll buy a new coat. (pron. kyanó mé)
Imeoidh mé ar a deich. I'll leave at ten. (pron. imyó mé)
Aithneoidh tú iad. You'll recognize them. (pron. ahnyó tú)
Críochnóidh muid go luath. We'll finish soon. (pron. kríchnó mwid)
Cabhróidh siad leat. They'll help you. (pron. kowró shíud)


Rewatching Lord of Illusions. I used to love this movie, and I actually still do, although its weak points are much more evident to me now. I still love Swann, though, unequivocally. I think it sucks what happened to him, though I can't really argue against it since it was a pretty natural consequence of his actions.

It's actually dryish out this morning. And the radar seems to suggest the rain will be much more intermittent. I can live with this! I was getting very tired of incessant rain of varying strengths between zero visibility downpour and everything is drippy. I mean, I appreciate that we're not going to have a drought anytime soon but can we please have a state somewhere in this country between flooding and drought? Please? Ever? Trying to come up with a pipeline system to irrigate the entire country would probably cause a shitton of engineering jobs but somehow I don't see anyone considering that feasible or backing down from party lines enough to make it happen. Plus the GOP would find some way to make it enrich them and keep the rest of us living paycheck to paycheck.

The fireworks did not actually keep me up last night and I was able to get more than intermittent sleep, speaking of intermittent things! I like this. I was fucking exhausted yesterday due to waking up almost every hour. Not a happy kitty.

Right, so. Today I finish up this chapter of Gods and Monsters and post it, which seems a reasonable task. Then a pile of edits on Blood in the Gutters. I talked to Mister E and it seems like my current schedule for self-pub is a reasonable one, as well as learning a bit more about how to format everything. Turns out Scrivener is good for something after all! I exaggerate, I don't find any of the usual writing programs useful because I take notes and organize my shit in a word document either in the cloud or in a word processor, that's how I learned and that's how I continue, but if Scrivener is going to help me as a layout tool for self-publishing I am all about that. I can just write in word processors and transport it into there afterwards! So that helped calm me down quite a bit, and Editrix and I talked through the massive snarl this week's Gods and Monsters caused, and all in all, I'm actually thinking I got more done yesterday at work than I would have if I'd taken the day entirely off. Woo!