Languary Day 15: Begin a quote!

[aldersprig]

I'm going to do inventrix's idea of translating a quote.

I went to http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html and got:

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

oh, lord.

Okay, first half of this:

Love is an irresistible desire
[Love] [to be, conjugated] (article) [resist][-able]feal [desire]

* Question: Do I have articles?
after a quick bit of study, I think no.

* to be, pfa

-othe is the ending for:

Continuous present tense, third person singular.

[Love] phothe...

* -able?
-ud, dud-

[Love] phothe [resist]udfeal [desire].

Woo! *falls over*

Edit! Sentence order ack
Verb Object (Object adjective) (adverb) Subject (subject adjective)

Phothe [desire] [resist]udfeal [Love]

Phew!

Comments

[inventrix]

Hmm. I was going to say a thing but then I was looking at your sentence and realized I think I misinterpreted it.

So you have the object and its modifiers between the verb and its modifiers?

[aldersprig]

oh I don't know where verb modifiers go crap.

[inventrix]

Isn't that what "adverb" is?

[aldersprig]

Maybe I should go back to bed and restart today

[inventrix]

Barring that, there's always tea. 8)

[aldersprig]

Yes. Why did I put my adverb there?

[inventrix]

If you can't remember why, do what I do and either make up a reason or change it! >.>

[thnidu]

ISTR something like that when we discussed syntax, but the microscopic screen of my phone (away from home) is not conducive to searching for it