Mícheál
Member Username: Mícheál
Post Number: 132 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 - 09:14 pm: |
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In An Tuiseal Gairmeach The Vocative Case, on page 22 of my copy of Gael Linn's Gaeilge agus Fáilte, it explains the use of the Vocative, and ends with "This rule does not apply to names that are not in the Irish language e.g. Conas tá tú Simone?" Does this mean then that the made-up names at these postings would not get the séimhiú when being addressed in the vocative? Maidhc Bím ag foghlaim Fáilte Roimh Cheartú
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Dalta
Member Username: Dalta
Post Number: 46 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 03:43 pm: |
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I think it usually depends on the writers inclination, that there's no hard and fast rule to it. I've seen things like a Jhason before, usually people just play with the language as they see fit. Words in Irish but that aren't names, eg mo cheannsa, can be vocative-ised. |