Dear Dennis & friends,

Reading Pali is like reading a musical score: actually Pali is musical in its own way. Each diacriticised character is a letter in itself. If the diacritics are removed, the result is clearly bad spelling! This is like removing all the vowels from the English alphabet.

Sukhi

Piya

--- "Dennis W. K. Khong" <denniskhong@...> wrote:

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> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Olds" <MikeOlds@...> wrote:
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> > In the USA it seems likely that the evenutal resolution will be
> to
> abandon
> > diacriticals altogether. Nobody knows what do do with them anyway
> and they
> > just pronounce the words according to their best guess or the way
> they heard
> > it from another...same way we learn English. Except for
> dictionary
> lookups
> > this isn't really a problem and my bet is that the dictionaries
> will
> 'give'
> > first.
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> We have three systems here:
> 1. Romanised pali with diacriticals (simply Romanised pali?)
> 2. Romanised pali using the Velthuis system
> 3. Romanised pali without diacriticals
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> Is there a term to distinguish Romanised pali with diacriticals
> from
> one without diacriticals?
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> I am thinking about this issue in relation to creating keywords for
> a
> wiki. The current practice is to use Romanised pali without
> diacriticals. Are there many instances where two common pali
> terms/concepts use the same word without diacriticals? Looking at
> the
> PTS dictionary, there will be many similar non-diacriticals pali
> words.
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> What do you suggest?
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