Re: Old Languages
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 12:28 |
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At 07:10 2001-10-05 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Amber Adams wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:58:13PM -0400, Karapcik, Mike wrote:
> > > I also have the TY book on Sanskrit which I have looked
> through with
> > > very good intentions. Does that count? ;-)
> >
> > I considered that!
> >
> > But it frightened me.
> >
>I think it's the best of the Teach Yourself books. It's
>the set book for Sanskrit at Leyden.
It certainly is the best Sanskrit introduction which exists. You can't
very well simplify Skt more than it does!
It could have selected more intersting text samples though (they mostly
used drama...)
--The man who once took Latin, Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan -- all
quickly deteriorating, I'm afraid... Old Norse sticks a good deal better,
if only because I used to be a semi-fluent speaker of Modern Icelandic...
/BP 8^)>
--
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X)
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