He might have been a lecturer at a medical school. But this digression will hardly help Dipa, who was rightly puzzled at why doctor's (singular) was translated as vejjaana.m (plural).

To suggest that the whole group has overlooked that doctor's is most likely to be a single doctor is itself to overlook the fact that as a matter of simple English and simple Pali, doctor's can only be singular and has to be vejjassa, and doctors' can only be plural and has to be vejjaana.m

----- Original Message -----
From: grasje
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:00 AM
Subject: [Pali] Re: Lesson Six Pali Primer question


Dear Dipa,

I think the whole group has overlooked that "the doctor's teacher cals" is most likely a single doctor, and thus vejjassa and not vejjana.m.
Exept if you think the teacher teaches a class full of doctor's, then vejjana.m is the correct answer. My english is not good enough to decide if "the doctor's teacher" might imply more doctor's.

By the way: if you are now already on lesson 6, you make excellent progress!

Kind regards,

Ria

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <palismith@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Dipa,
>
> you may have read the question incorrectly. Please see the original at VRI: http://www.vri.dhamma.org/publications/pali/primer/lesson06.html
>
> I also encourage you to refer to tipitaka.net's solutions, as it has gone through our group's assessment, and we had picked up some mistakes in the original publication.
>
> http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/pali.php?palidd=a06
>
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Dipa wrote:
>
> I am about to finish up lesson six in the Pali Primer and have a question regarding the answer for 16. The sentence is:
> The doctor's teacher calls the child's uncle.
>




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