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Dear Robert,
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say how helpful and encouraging
I find your explanations. I do feel a little Kreng jai to be taking
up your time. I'll try to do my homework and make proper use of your
help.
Metta
Robert
In Pali@..., Robert Eddison <robedd@...> wrote:

> Robert Kirkpatrick:
> > And secondly because quite often the English terms are rather more
> informative than the Pali ones. For example, if you don't know what
> 'accusative' means you can always look it up in an English

dictionary:

>
> "the case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing the object

of an

> action or the goal of motion" (Concise Oxford Dictionary).
>
> You can then invent some mnemonic device to ensure that you

remember what

> the accusative is for.
>
> By contrast, the Pali word for accusative is 'dutiyaa vibhatti'

('second

> declension'), which tells you nothing at all. Similarly with verbs.

The

> Pali for the imperative mood (used when giving an order) is

merely 'the

> fifth' (pa~ncamii). If you are learning Pali with Warder's book, my
> suggestion is that you stick to the English terms until about

lesson 13

> (when the author commences to describe the formation of compounds)

and then

> start to learn the Pali ones. A good resource for this is the list

of

> grammatical terms in ~Naa.namoli's "Pali-English Glossary of

Buddhist

> Technical Terms".
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert