"A screaming" - question to native speakers

[Paul Mackin]

2009/7/1 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
> Paul
> No no no, I've already translated it, so don't worry. I just want to
> find out why it turned out the way I did.
> J
>


Oh yeah I realize that. Just thought you might be reaccessing some of
the decisions you had made.

Cheers,

P


> 2009/7/1 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Che Molava<chemolava at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> (Paul Mackin)>> There are possibly many screamers or sources of the screaming.
>>> A chorus of terror: "Now everybody".
>>>
>>
>> Everybody's screaming comes across the sky.
>>
>> Somebody's screaming comes across the sky.
>>
>> I had myself sort of convinced this morning that "a" supplies an agent
>> for "screaming" (someone or something we know not what) but now I'm
>> losing confidence in that idea.
>>
>> I still for the life of me can't suggest to Janos what the "a"
>> contributes to the sentence.  Information he might need in making an
>> accurate translation.
>>
>> O me.
>>
>> P
>>
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