Guest deliarobertson Report post Posted November 18, 2007 All, does anyone have any sentence ideas for pregnancy announcements, the child in utero, exhibits, etc. I have received a pregnancy announcement which I would like to record. The expectant father created a "movie" from the video of the mom's first scan which is rather fun and which I would like to attach as an exhibit. Thanks much. Delia Robertson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Hannah 0 Report post Posted November 19, 2007 Hi Delia, I do not have such an event in any of my data sets, but how I would enter it would depend upon how many of such events I believed to be likely. For "one-of-a-kind" events I use a custom event with a very generic sentence: [P1] <and [P2]> [M1] <[D]> <[L]> <[M2]> With the two parts of the split memo (I use split memos a lot) you can make this sentence say just about anything you want. Of course, you could have Witnesses to the event (perhaps the unborn child, or the doctor, or ?) with a similar generic witness sentence: [W] [WM1] [P1] <and [P2]> [M1] <[D]> <[L]> <[WM2]> For your pregnancy example, if you made the parents P1 and P2, then M1="announced the coming of a son", and M2="and obtained a movie of the ultrasound". Then you might have grandma a Witness with WM1="began preparations to be a grandmother when" and WM2="by sending a movie of the ultrasound. She began knitting blue booties." You can do quite a lot with the split memos of such a generic event. If I thought there would be a lot of these pregnancy events, then I would make a custom event for just this situation. Hope this gives you ideas, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest deliarobertson Report post Posted November 20, 2007 Hi Delia, I do not have such an event in any of my data sets, but how I would enter it would depend upon how many of such events I believed to be likely. For "one-of-a-kind" events I use a custom event with a very generic sentence:snip If I thought there would be a lot of these pregnancy events, then I would make a custom event for just this situation. Hope this gives you ideas, Yes it does, thank you! Our family has a crop of 20/30-somethings that are in the process of beginning/adding to families, or seem to be heading in that direction. So maybe there will be quite a few of these events in the next half-decade or so. Thanks again. Delia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites