introducing a new member

Dear List Members,

I wish to inform you that a new member has joined our list, the first to do
so this year. Her name is Susanne Goetz and she lives in Nakhon Pathom,
Thailand. You can call her 'Susi'. With her permission, I quote from her
message which describes her academic work which should be of interest to us:

<< I am a German Ph.D. student (Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universitaet
Hamburg), and I just finished my M.A. degree with two majors: Thai Studies
and Classical Indology.

My ideas about my Ph.D. thesis are still in an initial phase, the current
title is: "Translations of canonical Pali texts into Thai: A diachronical
study of the translation practice." (This includes examining Pali Grammars
and textbooks used in Thailand, especially those of the Prince Patriarch
Vajirananavarorasa, as it is him who has introduced this kind of stereotype
translation practice rendering different cases and verb forms into Thai in a
certain way, producing a somehow artificial "translation language".)

The title of my M.A. thesis, written in German language but probably
forthcoming as a book in English next year, is: "The Significance of Pali
and Sanskrit in the Word Coining Process of the Royal Institute of
Thailand". >>

Best wishes,
Jim