Re: greetings and a couple of questions

--- In palistudy@..., "onco111" <dhd5@...> wrote:
> Dear Robert,
> I've done my years of Latin and Greek -- in fact I was a classics
> major for my first two years of college before switching to math!
I'm
> amazed at how similar a lot of Pali grammar is to Greek and Latin,
> although the vocabulary seems quite different (except for the
> numbers). Yeah, I know. Generalizations based on the first three
> lessons from Warder aren't worth the pixels their radiated from,
but
> that's my hypothesis for now: Similar grammar, different
vocabulary.
> +++++++++++++++++++++

Great advantage Dan. Nina has a background in Latin too. Very
interesting, your education!


> I can see how Warder would be formidable if you've never learned
> another inflected Indo-European language. I don't suppose Japanese
> helps as much (I'm assuming you know Japanese).
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No help at all. My japanese is simple conversations level, but they
are too different anyway.
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> P.S. Sorry to talk your ear off today!
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I cut out the rest of your nice post only so as to avoid
duplication. Please talk more!
robert