Venerable Bhante,
that is a good solution to avoid the tiresome and so on, or etc. which
occurs endlessly.
Thank you very much,
Nina.
op 17-12-2004 13:04 schreef Dhammanando Bhikkhu op
dhammanando@...:

>
> Considering how often the expressions -aadi and -anta are used
> in the ancient grammars and commentaries, I think one ought
> to devise some way of avoiding this ambiguity. One
> possibility is to use 'first' and 'last', rather than 'begin
> with' and 'end with'. Thus: