Thanks for the tip Kaare,
Sorry if I mispelt your name. Would you know of any book retailer that I could purchase this book from. I have ben looking for it for a long time and cannot find it anywhere. Pariyatti does not seem to carry it nor does amazon.

Thanks John Pruitt

"Kåre A. Lie" <alberlie@...> wrote:
At 15:36 24.09.2007 -0700, you wrote:

>Dear Yuttodhamma,
> The last few emails concerning the Pali compounds was incredably
> informative. You seem to be quite familiar working with the Pali language
> using its own terminalogy instead of western grammatical labels.
> Because you seem to be so familiar with pali from the inside, I was
> wondering if you might know of how pali is used to express such things as
> please and thankyou, hello and goodbye. Warder seems talk briefly about
> these expressions. Such as welcome, "svagato bhagavato hotu" . Warder
> also says that a greeting might be constructed using bhavo and the
> imperative of "as". Would this be constructed as "bhavo satu"? Any hints
> would be appreciated.

There is a small book, "Aids to Pali Conversation and Translation", by A.P.
Buddhadatta Mahathera, which you might find useful.

Yours,

Kåre A. Lie
http://www.lienet.no

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