Dear Yong Peng and all,

A few comments on your post:

> I can't agree less that this is a very ambitious project.

First an OT (off-topic) note on English - what you meant to say was "I
can't agree more that ...", idiomatic English for "I agree VERY
strongly ...". What you actually said was idiomatic for "I don't
agree at all", which I know you didn't mean! ;-)

> AN is the largest of the four Nikayas with around 10,000 suttas.

Actual sutta counts vary, depending on who's counting and how some
suttas are counted as multiple tiny suttas in some editions and as
just one larger sutta in other editions. The PTS edition count comes
in at 2,214, which is a lot less overwhelming to comtemplate.
However, it is true that the AN is the largest of the 4 main Nikaaya.

> I am proposing that we start with the Ones, and proceed sequentially

through to the Elevens.
Agreed.

> The detailed grammatical analysis actually aid in the trilinear, if
> only John can illustrate further.

Yes, I will, in a follow-up post.

However, I also think that perhaps we shouldn't take on a grammatical
analysis of the whole Nikaaya. It would take more lifetimes than you
might imagine!
But it is a very useful Pali learning aid. So we should do some.

> I plan to run it as a dual thread on weekends, there are several ways
> of going about it. I just thought of two:
> 1. The Ones on Saturdays and Twos on Sundays.
> 2. Grammatical analysis on Saturdays, and trilinear on Sundays.

Of your 2 ideas, I like #1 better. However, I'm not sure we can be
that rigid about the days. Those of us who might be interested in
participating all have different schedules, and we need to be flexible.

> If all things are set, we can likely start with the preliminaries on
> July 1!

Thanks for keeping the momentum going on this, Yong Peng.

With metta,
John