Dear Jim,

it is good if you are alright with the typing. I was referring to compiling your postings, including your translations and probably follow-up discussions and ensuing conclusions.

I can understand if you have to take occasional breaks in-between the postings, which will last for a few years. Keeping it short, I look forward to the very first post on "aakhyaata.m".

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Jim Anderson wrote:

> I will still be providing administrative support as previous. I just wonder if anyone is interested to compile the material Jim will be providing over the next few years. It would be good if someone with good secretarial skills can help to put the materials in PDF format for people to download and read offline.

As for typing in the text of the 25th pariccheda, I can look after that and the proofreading. Help in this area will not speed things up. I have not studied this pariccheda on verbs before in any thoroughgoing fashion so this will be an opportunity for me to learn and try to understand as well. Most of my work will no doubt involve research on difficult points that usually entail extensive reading of otheruntranslated grammatical commentaries. I'm planning to make my first contribution this coming Monday. It will consist of the text and translation of the one introductory verse followed by an etymological definiton of the term "aakhyaata.m" (the finite verb) which I've already done some reading up on. I have the 3 lines of text translated in my mind. I will try to post an instalment each Monday with an average of 1 sutta per week. Some of the postings will contain 2 or more suttas if it can be done easily. In my readings so far it is becoming clear that the aakhyaata.m is the most important word in a sentence, grammatically speaking, as it carries vital information about the sentence structure. It is for a good reason that it is called the teller or the informer.

There will be periods when I'll be in another location with limited access to my research materials especially from late December to early April. I may also lose access to the Internet should my old laptop suddenly die. Just to let you know that things may not always go as smoothly as one would like.