Note to spectie/explaining an obscure commit message

I've had too much 19th century Polish poetry here... now for something completely different:

<spectie> There is no indefinite article in Manx. The definite article precedes the noun and is differentiated by number but not gender. For singular nouns, it is yn (‘n if following a vowel, y if between two consonants), and for plural nouns, it is ny.

interesting
only celtic language which has a number differentiated article
that i know of
<jimregan> what???
<spectie> does irish ?
<jimregan> both ga and gd have that
<spectie> i thought it was 'an' for everything
<jimregan> an fear - the man; na fir - the men
* spectie rings the bell of ignorance
<spectie> aha
<jimregan> heh
the next time this happens, I'm going to make you keep a chart of linguistic discoveries, so I can definitively say 'we talked about this before, more than once' :)

(spectie, consider this that reminder).

Then there's this obscure commit message:
apertium: ftyers * r8244 /trunk/incubator/apertium-ga-gv.gv.dix: and yea, one more entry be thrust upward

Easily explained:

<spectie> this grammar is too old :(
<jimregan> what gave that away?
'if the Noun be of the feminine gender'
<spectie> :D
yep basically
<jimregan> heh
English's appendix
'quick! amputate the subjunctive!'

Back to the nonsense...