In Level 1, Challenge 14:
She said she wanted to speak with me.
Dwedodd hi bod hi’n moyn siarad gyda fi.
So far okay - I assume that the “pseudo past tense” (subjunctive originally) wanted in EL reported speech isn’t needed here; after all, they are talking about the present (same thing in my native German). However:
Dwedodd hi bod hi’n moyn siarad gyda fi neithiwr. She is saying something about the past here. So why is it not:
Dwedodd hi oedd hi’n moyn siarad gyda fi neithiwr?
Or in other words, why can I combine bod and neithiwr here? Does the bod perhaps not signal the present at all? Is the whole thing a kind of she-stated-being-in-a-state-of-wanting-to …, no matter whether now or last night?
Sorry for the long explanation, I hope this still qualifies as a “tiny question”. 