Or not.
It's a real corker I can tell you!!
Here's the thing. In Mr. King's admirable tome "Basic Welsh: a grammar and workbook" he says that a Soft Mutation takes place after the subject (or notional subject ).
And here's another thing... he doesn't tell us poor sods what a "notional subject" is. That's a bit naughty isn't it.
At this moment I suggest you have a bit of a think ... what could this "notional subject" be ?Here's a soothing picture for you to contemplate while your mind is whizzing around...
FRIED WOODLICE PANIC !
This presumably could be considered to be an incomplete sentence, such as ...
" There has been a panic about Fried Woodlice in the suburbs of Thanet."
or " Fried Woodlice have caused panic in an Oxfordshire Police Station."
or " Fried Woodlice are in a panic over failed conservation efforts."
or " Fried Woodlice Panic all a student hoax"
or " Local Councillor pilloried over Fried Woodlice Panic"
... and you could then maybe decide what the subject of the sentence would have been had the complete sentence been displayed.... and then SM the word after it.
The trouble with that is, there are millions of possible sentences, in which the words they've given you are variously subjects, objects, indirect objects ....
So ... I did a bit of investigating ...as you do. Here's a chapter heading from "Harri Potter a Maen yr Athronydd "....
CALAN GAEAF
If we want to know whether any SM needs to be applied,which apparently hasn't happened yet, how do we decide what the notional sentence is and then ... what is its notional subject?
Hmm.
I'm going to try to clear this up in the next post, but I want my dear readers to have another think about it all... maybe someone will have a brainwave .... and while I'm waiting for that, here's Y Cyrff with one of their most magnificant songs ... Cymru, Lloegr a Llanrwst ... it has a beautiful guitar riff running through it .....
Weithia mae'n sbïo ochor yma ond di'o byth yn ddigonol
Hei rhywun yn gofyn wrtha fi beth sydd ar waith yma heno
Trosi a trosi yn fy meddwl does na ddim byd yma
Son amdan, Cymru, LLoegr a LLanrwst
Son amdan, Cymru, LLoegr a LLanrwst
Pan mae'r byrddau'n dechrau fflio dwi'n jysd yn eistedd yma'n llonydd
Dyma di'r unig amser pryd dwi byth yn teimlo'n aflonydd
Heno mae gwaed a gwydyr ar llawr yn y toiledi
Ond allai ddim cydymdeimlo hefo sgwadi
Son amdan, Cymru, LLoegr a LLanrwst
Son amdan, Cymru, LLoegr a LLanrwst
Son dim yn gwybod be sy'n iawn
Wel paid a eistedd yna yn gwenu
Os dwi'm yn gwybod be dwi'n deud
O paid a chwerthin ar fy mhen i
Hei rhywun yn gofyn wrtha fi beth sydd ar waith yma heno
Trosi a trosi yn fy meddwl does na ddim byd yma
Tyrd hefo fi lle ma'r anifeiliaid byth yn mentro
A gawn ni siarad am Cymru, Lloegr a Llanrwst unwaith eto
Son amdan, Cymru, LLoegr a LLanrwst
Son amdan, Cymru, LLoegr a LLanrwst
Thanks to Christine at the Y Cyrff site she runs for the words ... here's the link if you want to have a look ..
http://www.ycyrffgroupie.co.uk/
Today's Key Learning Objectives...
Notional Subject
Where that Y Cyrff song got its title from
Woodlice, fried or otherwise