Nina van Gorkom wrote thus at 21:59 27/09/2010:

>Op 26-sep-2010, om 13:33 heeft Ong Yong Peng het volgende geschreven:
>> "Eva.m, bhante"ti kho te bhikkhuu bhagavato paccassosu.m.
>>
>> "Make it so, sir," indeed, to the Blessed One, those monks assented.
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>N: Suggested: Yes lord, those monks assented to the Blessed One.
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"Make it so" does sound rather like Jean Luc Picard making a command upon a recommendation by a subordinate. If you rather not have "Yes, sir", how about "So be it, sir"?

kb

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>> Asabbhi heta.m, bhikkhave, upa~n~naata.m yadida.m akata~n~nutaa
>> akataveditaa.
>>
>> ??? Help needed for asabbhi.
>>
>> sabbhi = instrumental plural of sant.
>> - sant (ppr of atthi) being.
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>N: we would expect the ending of -ehi. But sat or sant is very
>irregular.
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> -sant means also true. I am inclined to connect asabbhi with
>asappurisa. Asabbhi upa~n~naata.m: it is wellknown with (regard to)
>the non-true ones, that is to say ingratitude...
>PTS translates with: congenial to mean people.
>Only the form sabbhi from sant is not yet clear. Perhaps Jim could help?
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>Nina.
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