Dear List Members;
Has anyone ever written a computer program that generates all possible
Pali words and phrases/compounds?
There is a file containing every word in the Tipitaka:
http://nibbanam.com/pali_language_tools.html#PaliWordList
John Kelly's Digha Nikaya translations and grammatical analysis that
he started recently certainly helps beginners (like myself) to start
doing this themselves.
He's probably memorized all these grammatical tables but maybe he
could provide a mental transcript of what tables he would use if he
had to.
Generating grammar is a lot easier for a computer to do than parse
(decompose) grammar so reverse engineering John Kelly's thought
processes might lead to an interesting and very doable little computer
program.
With metta,
Jon Fernquest