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Nosdan	Posted: 29.05.2007, 10:28
registered: Sep. 2006 Posts: 1151 Status: offline last visit: 05.10.08	I'm trying to write a letter, and i cant work out how to use "would" properly, wandered if someone could help me? whats Cornish for: I would like (could this be a future tense of Bos + gans? - da vydh genev?) and If you would consider Mar vedhow avel gelvinek (as maazed as a curlew)


FlammNew	Posted: 29.05.2007, 10:54
registered: Mar. 2006 Posts: 1814 Status: offline last visit: 27.03.08	What's wrong with "My a vynn xxxxx mar pleg." for "I would like"? Best to use the simplest form you can, and remember that not every expression in English translates directly into Cornish. For "If you would consider" you could also use mynnes: "Mar mynn'ta" - "If you want to", "If you would". You're heading into the realms of the subjunctive and There Be Dragons in them there hills. If the "would" in your sentence is conditional on something else, you need the subjunctive, and the pluperfect in its conditional sense, e.g.: Mar kalla, y tempersa an gwyns - If he could, he would tame the wind. (From Wella Brown's excellent Grammar book, and, amazingly, from memory! Everybody serious about learning Cornish should have this book, there's nothing else like it out there.) dukkha-samudaya-nirodha-magga


morvyl	Posted: 29.05.2007, 13:24
registered: Feb. 2006 Posts: 388 Status: offline last visit: 14.05.08	NosdanI'm trying to write a letter, and i cant work out how to use "would" properly, wandered if someone could help me? whats Cornish for: I would like (could this be a future tense of Bos + gans? - da vydh genev?) and If you would consider I'd translate "I would like" as KS 'da via genaf' with the conditional of 'bos' = 'bia'. How to translate "consider" would depend on the context, but you could say: 'mar qwrussas predery...' or 'mar teffas ha predery...'


FlammNew	Posted: 29.05.2007, 13:57
registered: Mar. 2006 Posts: 1814 Status: offline last visit: 27.03.08	Of course it's da via genev, my brain was stuck. dukkha-samudaya-nirodha-magga


Nothlenn	Posted: 29.05.2007, 23:17
registered: May. 2007 Posts: 221 Status: offline last visit: 29.04.08	I have always used 'My a garsa...' from the conditional tense of 'Kara' (to like) implying 'I would like, if I were able [or permitted]. It's a good colloquial phrase.


Laghyades	Posted: 31.05.2007, 04:20
registered: May. 2006 Posts: 218 Status: offline last visit: 26.09.08	Forget about the first 1000 words in Cornish. The first two words in Cornish for most young men are : i) Beer ii) The future subjunctive for the verb 'to copulate' St Piran would probably have approved of the first. As for the second .... well, a close study of old medieval legal texts turns up some interesting little tid-bits. Such as the one about how a Parish priest was permitted to have a concubine, so long as he did not keep her in the Rectory..... Laghyades R-E-V-R-O-N-S, *Find out what it means to us.*


morvyl	Posted: 31.05.2007, 10:00
registered: Feb. 2006 Posts: 388 Status: offline last visit: 14.05.08	[quote=Laghyades]Forget about the first 1000 words in Cornish. The first two words in Cornish for most young men are : i) Beer ii) The future subjunctive for the verb 'to copulate' Though not quite in agreement with what I learnt first when I was a young man... which was "Yow, soce, thera ve tesky Curnooack."