Thanks for the phrases.
Does "subha.m atthu" mean hello or thanks? Perhaps, if it is not too much trouble, you could tell us what these phrases mean. Also, has anyone ever come across in the jatakas animals greeting other animals or any kind of informal speach such as thanks or goodbye?

John Pruitt

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From: Piya Tan <dharmafarer@...>
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Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:09:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: Pali phrase book?














Ko nu tva.m pana aarabhasi?



Subham atthu



Si.mhapure Piyo

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

> >

> >

> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

> >

>

>

>



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