Dear Charles, Rett and friends,

thanks for that. I now see that the question is also printed as

Ko jaanaati 'ki.m'eso karissatii'ti?'

The single quote in /karissatii'ti/ also indicates an elision. I
agree with Rett about the use of iti to indicate the scope (in this
case for /eso/) within a sentence.

I would write the sentence as

Ko jaanaati 'ki.m'eso karissatii'ti'?

What do you think?


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, rett wrote:

> All the apostrophes/single-quotes in 10 are giving me fits. My
text actually includes a fourth one after the question mark. Could
someone let me know if they serve some purpose other than causing
confusion?
>
> > 10. Ko jaanaati 'ki.m'eso karissatii'ti?
> > who / knows / what / he / will do
> > "Who knows what he will do?"
>

I could see the above being written:

10. Ko jaanaati 'ki.m eso karissatii' ti?

Then the single-quotes are just being used to mark the scope of the
phrase nominalized by the word iti. This can be helpful at times.

Apostrophes are also used to mark elided vowels, as in: yena bhagavaa
ten' upasa.mkami. ten' = tena with the short a elided by sandhi.
However this latter function doesn't apply above. So the apostrophe
in ki.m'eso above seems spurious to me.