Dear Jon,

I had a quiet chuckle when I read in your recent email below: "He's
[i.e., referring to me!] probably memorized all these grammatical
tables but maybe he could provide a mental transcript of what tables
he would use if he had to."
I certainly haven't memorized all the grammatical tables, and I wish
my poor old brain could remember more than it actually does. The
simple, but slow, technique I use is lots of looking up in both the
dictionary and in grammar books as I painstakingly try to figure out
what's going on in the Pali to make a grammatical analysis. And, of
course, I may not always be right, and would welcome any corrective
feedback when somebody spots an error.

With warm wishes for continuing success in your Pali studies,
John

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Fernquest" <bayinnaung@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>