Dear Henry,
Thanks for posting this. What I should tell everyone
is that YOU did the bulk of the painstaking work in
compiling these and entering them into a document. I
just provided a few additions and amendments based on
my notes. As I have suggested in an off-list email to
you, please post the file to the Pali Primer
sub-folder that Yong Peng set up some time ago, so
that all the PP files are together, and while you're
at it, remove my initials from the file name, for the
reasons detailed above.

Henry and I are lucky to live in the same location
(suburbs of Washington, DC), and so we get together
every few weeks for a "Pali seminar" and compare notes
on the self-study books we are working on together. I
hope others of you on the list can similarly find a
"Pali Pal" in your neighbourhood!

JK
--- "Henry J. Grossi" <grossi@...> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> John Kelly and I recently finished working our way
> through Pali Primer.
> Along the way, we compiled a list of what we think
> are errors in the book,
> as well as inconsistencies. I've uploaded this list
> to the file section of
> the group as PPCorrections JK.doc. This is a Word
> text file. I hope that
> both Mac and Windows users can access it.
>
> You'll see from the list that most of our comments
> concern the answer key.
> Having worked rather closely with the key, I've come
> to the conclusion that
> it was compiled independently of the text. There are
> too many instances
> where a translation is acceptable Pali that does not
> conform to what has
> been presented in PP. One especially sees this in
> the choice of vocabulary,
> where the vocabulary introduced in a lesson does not
> appear in the key. So,
> if you are relying on the key to check your work, be
> advised that it is not
> always the only correct answer!
>
> But, all in all we are lucky to have it. Our small
> but enthusiastic
> community of Pali scholars must rely on whatever we
> can get.
>
> Metta,
> Henry
>

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