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You saw in Unit 4 that Seo is used to present or indicate things which are nearby. Sin is used for those which are more distant.

Sin Liam thall. That is Liam over there.
Seo do sheomra. This is your room.
Sin an seomra folctha. That is the bathroom.
Seo do leabasa. This is your bed (leaba + sa)
Sin leaba Shéamais. That is Séamas's bed.
Seo an chistin. This is the kitchen.
Sin an parlús. That is the sitting room.

The Irish equivalents of this room, that room, etc consist of the + noun + sin/seo.

an seomra, the room
an seomra seo, this room
an seomra sin, that room
na seomraí seo, these rooms
na seomraí sin, those rooms

Seo and sin can also follow a pronoun.
Cé hé seo? Who is this?
Cé hé sin? Who is that?
Cé hiad seo? Who are these?
Cé hiad sin? Who are those?
Cad é seo? What is this?
Cad é sin? What is that? (AHAHAHAHAH HI SONG.)
Cad iad seo? What are these?
Cad iad sin? What are those?

Remember that é, í, iad become sé, sí, siad when following a verb as subject.

Tá sé seo go deas. This is nice.
Bhí sé sin go maith. That was good.
[Verb] [pronoun] [indicator sin/seo] [... something?] [adjective]

Seo and sin are sometimes used on their own.
Tá áthas orm faoi seo. I am delighted about this.
Tá brón orm faoi sin. I am sorry about that.


Oi, Irish info dump.

It's funny. I'm editing my own writing now, after letting it sit for a little while and after my editor's gone over it, and between the two of us we are very much shredding this thing. I think there might be a few one- or two-sentence paragraphs left alone except for a note to picture this in more detail if not write the details down, but that's about it. Damn. Sometimes I wonder... well, a lot of things. Why I'm not a bigger wreck when my writing is covered in red ink, even my own. (Well, red and green ink. Digital ink. Red and green pixels.) Why I'm not editing and why I don't volunteer to beta often. (I bitch. A lot.) Why I ever thought I could post/publish anything without editing it first, heh, I wonder that a lot. Somehow I suspect these edits are more thorough than my original mixer for BigBang mixup expected me to get into. That's fine, I'll know I've turned in my best work for the inspiration and the time frame.

So, that means today getting started on my other BBMs, hopefully they go quickly, and then getting all that turned in on the first. Which is also inspection day! Hopefully that'll help me freaking remember.

Did an experimental disc burning today to see if a) the discs I have are CD-Rs and b) if, being so, the CD player in the front of the store will play them if I burn a music CD on them. I know there's some funkiness with older CD players maybe not reading burned discs, although they may have fixed that since the last time I resorted to burned CDs not in computers. I feel a bit weird, like I'm kitbashing technology together or something. Instead of, of all things, using it for its intended purpose. Anyway, I burned the playlist I put on when I'm writing Long Road, which should be all right both for me and for everyone who might share the front counter duties with me. Somehow I don't think Pink's Fucking Perfect is the best track to put on in our store. Much as I like it.

But if it works, there'll be a lot of other CDs I can burn and that'll bring some damn variety to the music out front. And today's the day I'm most likely to end up there. And, please Lady, I won't have much in the way of house stuff to deal with today if any at all, so I can work on fiber kits, getting the mail out, maybe restocking some shelves. Maybe, gasp, shock, some knitting. Although I'm almost done with one placemat, go me! Probably would have gotten done a lot quicker if I'd started dictating and knitting at the same time a little sooner, oops. Now I know. Well, remembered. Dragon is still occasionally a pain in my ass, but it's still good enough to free up my hands to knit while I write. God I love modern technology.

There probably should be something more here. I've been keeping an eye on the Washington and Maryland Marriage Equality things, yes, but I'm holding off on the full celebration till I know it'll stick. On the other hand, that'd be a little over 1/6 of the states in the US with fully equal marriage laws. Which just reminds me that this is a stupid thing to be arguing about in the first damn place, separation of Church and State should dictate the goddamn state isn't involved in your marriage, but I don't see that changing anytime soon. So we'll settle for making marriage equal across the board, yeah? Yeah.

ETA: Via Network, I have no idea who Kiera Cass is, but apparently she doesn't realize that the internet is a) forever, and b) everywhere. Her YA books are being made into a CW show, because now that all the soaps are being cancelled the teenagers need their own stories, and she has no idea how to deal with bad reviews in a way that doesn't make her look like the bitch queen of the high school. More relevantly, she's apparently a terrible writer? Now I need to get a copy of her book and spork the hell out of it for my own amusement. Because, yes, sometimes I'm a really shallow bitch like that. Someone get me a copy.