SV: iCPD

Dear Lance,

Many thanks for your mail. I calculated five years ago that it would take
about three hundred if not four hundred ears to complete the CPD, if we were
to continue like in the old days. I have suggested to the University of
Copenhagen that we continue the CPD by making dictionaries of selected
texts, beginning with the Paatimokkha adding the vocabulary of each major
canonical text to the vocabulary described in the CPD. This would make it
possible to cover the total vocabulary of essential texts, from which it
would be possible to extrapolate. This, I believe, will make the dictionary
much more useful. In short, the idea is to make it a dictionary in the
making, and one that can be corrected or improved upon continually. This is
what I intend to do. One problem is, of course, that in the "modern world"
making a dictionary is just about like digging your own grave. What do you
think ?

Best wishes,
Ole
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Sendt: 5. juni 2007 18:43
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Emne: Re: [palistudy] iCPD



Dear Ole,

This is wonderful. I had not heard of this project until now. Do
please tell us a little more about it.

For me all the characters seem to display correctly. And it is
possible to cut and paste the results - really useful. The search
within articles also has the potential to be very helpful, although a
search for aadisati brought up as one of the answers upa-desa. Is
that correct ?

Anyway, there will no doubt be teething problems.

>I take the oportunity to inform the group that most of the published
volumes
>of CPD have been uploadet at <<http://hfg.myx. <http://hfg.myx.dk/pali>
dk/pali>http://hfg.myx. <http://hfg.myx.dk/pali> dk/pali>
><http://hfg.myx. <http://hfg.myx.dk/pali> dk/pali>http://hfg.myx.
<http://hfg.myx.dk/pali> dk/pali The project is in a
>preliminary stage and not every
>page has been proof read. For getting an idea of how it works, click
>soegeside.
>
>Ole Holten Pind

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Best Wishes,

Lance

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