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Dear list-members,

I'm pleased to inform you that a new member (the ninth) has recently joined
our group. I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Nina van Gorkom.
It's a real honour to have her with us and I'm sure her presence and
participation will be greatly appreciated by all of us here. She'll be  away
on vacation from May 12-28 so she's just around for a few more days. Without
realizing it until afterwards I had coincidentally subscribed Nina on an
auspicious Visaakha day.

The list has been relatively quiet since mid-March but now that Nina has
joined us I should really start working again on more contributions to Pali
study. I had started on the sutta concerning the niggahiita (.m) but it
still needs a lot more work. This particular letter is probably the most
difficult to understand of all the letters (at least in my mind).

You don't need to wait for my contributions to participate. You're all free
to make your own contributions, ask questions, put forth any Pali word or
short text for comments or study, or anything else that you might think
appropriate. I've been thinking of posting something on the uses of the
future passive participle like sevitabba touched on in Rob's recent post to
dsg and perhaps something on the Lumbini inscription.

Best wishes,
Jim