ignoring my computer terminal for several days. Regarding your interest in Mad Magazine sentences, their relation to Welsh, and their appropriateness on this net: first, I'm not the most regular subscriber to this list and I would be interested in what the regular subscribers have to say, so I won't take it upon myself to censor this discussion; second, if you're interested in this subject and thought about it for more than five minutes together, you'vethought more deeply than I. When I wrote my first message about Mad Magazine sentences, I was merely remarking on the previous moments observation. I had noted these "absolute" constructions before, and on the particular occassion in question, it occurred to that similar constructions in English are very pragmatically or stylistically marked, and thus it occurred to me to wonder what pragmatic, stylistic, generic, etc. characteristics accompany the use of these absolute constructions in Welsh [pardon my rambling sentences]. So, all I can do is bounce the question back to [oops] Welsh-L: is there any similarity between some uses of the Welsh construction Ti eisio paned o de? and the Mad Magazine sentence Juan buy a stretch limo!? If not, when *can* you use a sentence having no inflected verb? If this is the wrong topic or tone for mailings to the Welsh-L, please inform me. I'll mend my ways. David in Buffalo