I've always liked this meme. Also, more sketches
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
I am, admittedly, not grabbing THE nearest book, because that is a French/English dictionary and that's boring and also I am not sure how you quantify sentences in that context.
"8.3.2In ModFr, the forms celui, celle, ceux, celles, though originally demonstratives, are not now demonstratives but determinatives, i.e. the equivalent of English 'the one, the ones' : Quel livre? Celui que j'ai acheté ce matin 'Which book ? The one I bought this morning' ; Mes livres et ceux de mon frère 'My books and my brother's' (='the ones/those of my brother').
These determinative pronouns are transformed into demonstratives by means of the particles ci and là (celui-ci, ceux-là, etc.), i.e. the demonstrative function as well as the function of differentiating between nearness and distance is carried solely by the particles and not the pronouns.
8.3.3How is this transformation of the French demonstrative system to be explained? It is sometimes suggested that there was a tendency in OFr to prefer the cest series as adjectives and the cel series as pronouns. Even if this is true--which is doubtful--it is no explanation to say that the situation we are trying to explain arose not in, say, MidFr but in OFr: the problem remains the same."
Wtf LONG sentences, run-on much?
In other news, I'm behind in my sketch-a-day, of course, but here's some for of them. General qualit yis... meh.
Dude. CARS are HARD, omg.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
I am, admittedly, not grabbing THE nearest book, because that is a French/English dictionary and that's boring and also I am not sure how you quantify sentences in that context.
"8.3.2In ModFr, the forms celui, celle, ceux, celles, though originally demonstratives, are not now demonstratives but determinatives, i.e. the equivalent of English 'the one, the ones' : Quel livre? Celui que j'ai acheté ce matin 'Which book ? The one I bought this morning' ; Mes livres et ceux de mon frère 'My books and my brother's' (='the ones/those of my brother').
These determinative pronouns are transformed into demonstratives by means of the particles ci and là (celui-ci, ceux-là, etc.), i.e. the demonstrative function as well as the function of differentiating between nearness and distance is carried solely by the particles and not the pronouns.
8.3.3How is this transformation of the French demonstrative system to be explained? It is sometimes suggested that there was a tendency in OFr to prefer the cest series as adjectives and the cel series as pronouns. Even if this is true--which is doubtful--it is no explanation to say that the situation we are trying to explain arose not in, say, MidFr but in OFr: the problem remains the same."
Wtf LONG sentences, run-on much?
In other news, I'm behind in my sketch-a-day, of course, but here's some for of them. General qualit yis... meh.
Dude. CARS are HARD, omg.