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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2011 (January-February) » Archive through January 22, 2011 » Bíodh 'cuid' ann nó ná bíodh! « Previous Next »

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Sineadw
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Username: Sineadw

Post Number: 613
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 09:22 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit PostPrint Post

"Cuirfear fáilte go forleathan roimis saothar so Mháirtín ar chúiseanna iomadúla....."

Just thought I'd share this first line of the introduction to 'Gort Broc' as I remember someone here (Taidhgín measaim) once saying how 'cuid' is a much (ab)used word in our language which I have to say I agree with.

'Cuid' would have really stepped on this sentence..

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Carmanach
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Post Number: 1122
Registered: 04-2009
Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 10:53 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit PostPrint Post

Sinéad, I don't wish to sound facetious or flippant but how can "cuid" be said to be a much (ab)used word?

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Sineadw
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Post Number: 616
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 04:04 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit PostPrint Post

As in how it could be said to be so excessively used as to be abused. Where you have to say 'mo chuid gruaige' and so on, well the use of cuid just stretched out into all contexts of possession, whenever something 'of' somebodys is being written about, and where despite the séimhiú being so neat cuid always gets used instead.

Anyway I can appreciate how there may be an intangibleness to it and so maybe it's something you either feel or don't feel to be the case!



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