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On Jan 29, 2008 10:00 AM, Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...> wrote:

>
> > Why not raise one of your kids speaking Pali :-)
>
> I would like to experiment with a chatterbot first :-)
> like Eliza
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot
>
> If Esperanto made it as an artificial language, why not Pali?
>
> Jataka stories and works like Dhammapada commentary I guess are more
> relevant but when I look at the number of alternative noun inflections
> in Duroiselle's grammar which is supposed to reflect these
> differences from the Sutta Pitaka, I shudder.
>
> A propos to phrasebooks, I've seen a Latin phrasebook to help readers,
> that has Latin time words and phrases in one section, for instance.
> Sort of a thesaurus. This sort of way of organizing vocabulary and
> lexical items might come in handy for learning Pali.
>
> Jon Fernquest
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, "Lennart Lopin"
> <lenni_lop@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why not raise one of your kids speaking Pali :-) Suddenly the dead
> language
> > is alive again. Anyone tried this with Latin :-)
> > As all things are impermanent maybe the death of Pali too...(*joking*)
> >
> > However, i recall a couple of instances myself, where Pali had helped me
> > communicating with (young) monks in Sri Lanka who did not speak any
> English.
> > It did work. My problem however was, that through the study of the
> Suttas
> > you tend to use words and sentence composition which is quite
> different from
> > the approach monks in Sri Lanka tend to study Pali, namely, with a huge
> > focus on the commentaries.
> >
> > On the other hand, that helped them having words for almost all
> (monastic)
> > activities and even short phrases, which derive from those little
> stories
> > narrated in the commentaries....Most of the time i understood what they
> > said, once i got the vocabulary. However, they found my answers strange,
> > because i would tend to use words found frequently in the Sutta-Pitaka
> >
> > with metta,
> >
> > Lennart
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>



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