Hi Charles and group,

>I used "saddhi.m" in 11 (Aha.m madhunaa saddhi.m yaagu.m pibaami!).
>
>I followed the previous discussion related to the use of saddhi.m,
>but I'm unclear on the concensus opinion for its proper usage. Was
>it decided that the only usage for saddhi.m supported in canonical
>writings was "with another person"?

As far as I can tell we didn't arrive at a conclusive answer. This is
the sort of question that trained linguists are well-equipped to
answer, but it requires doing a special study, preferably based on
the entire corpus. Even then, there is a risk that there are
acceptable usages that just haven't made their way into the
literature. Also, there can be a newer stratum of the language which
has developed among monks in SE Asia using Pali in their
communications. This could be somewhat different from the Pali we
encounter in the old books, but still be correct for its place and
time. After all, English today is quite different than it was even
500 years ago.

In any case this sort of issue is almost certainly going to come up
if we use materials with artificially constructed exercise example.
It's both a problem, but also an interesting challenge.

For beginners, though, I think it is much better to use exercises
culled from the literature, to be sure to preserve idiomatic
subleties. If there aren't enough of these 'genuine' practice
sentences at the right level, we might need to create them ourselves.

best regards,

/Rett