On Jan 30, 2008 10:24 AM, johnny pruitt <mahasacham@...> wrote:
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Piya Tan <dharmafarer@... <dharmafarer%40gmail.com>>
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>
> 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:
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> >
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> > > Why not raise one of your kids speaking Pali :-)
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> >
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> > I would like to experiment with a chatterbot first :-)
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> > like Eliza
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> >
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> > http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ ELIZA
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> > http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Chatterbot
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> >
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> > If Esperanto made it as an artificial language, why not Pali?
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> >
>
> > Jataka stories and works like Dhammapada commentary I guess are more
>
> > relevant but when I look at the number of alternative noun inflections
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> > in Duroiselle's grammar which is supposed to reflect these
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> > differences from the Sutta Pitaka, I shudder.
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> >
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> > A propos to phrasebooks, I've seen a Latin phrasebook to help readers,
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> > that has Latin time words and phrases in one section, for instance.
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> > Sort of a thesaurus. This sort of way of organizing vocabulary and
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> > lexical items might come in handy for learning Pali.
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> >
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> > Jon Fernquest
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> >
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> >
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> > --- In Pali@... com <Pali%40yahoogroups .com>, "Lennart Lopin"
>
> > <lenni_lop@. ..> wrote:
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> > >
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> > > Hi,
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> > >
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> > > 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*
> )
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> > >
>
> > > However, i recall a couple of instances myself, where Pali had helped
> me
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> > > communicating with (young) monks in Sri Lanka who did not speak any
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> > English.
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> > > It did work. My problem however was, that through the study of the
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> > Suttas
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> > > you tend to use words and sentence composition which is quite
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> > different from
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> > > the approach monks in Sri Lanka tend to study Pali, namely, with a
> huge
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> > > focus on the commentaries.
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> > >
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> > > On the other hand, that helped them having words for almost all
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> > (monastic)
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> > > activities and even short phrases, which derive from those little
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> > stories
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> > > narrated in the commentaries. ...Most of the time i understood what
> they
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> > > said, once i got the vocabulary. However, they found my answers
> strange,
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> > > because i would tend to use words found frequently in the Sutta-Pitaka
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> > >
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> > > with metta,
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> > >
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> > > Lennart
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> > >
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> > >
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