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Re: Old Languages

From:Karapcik, Mike <karapcik@...>
Date:Thursday, October 4, 2001, 21:56
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Amber Adams
| Subject: Re: Old Languages
|
| 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.

        You too?
        I remember reading through the index.
        To paraphrase: Here are the *eleven* (!!) noun declensions. However,
these are just samples as the last consonant in the word is also controlled
by the first consonant in the word. Also, since over 30% (!!!!) of the nouns
are irregular, the student should not rely two heavily on these tables.

        I think 30% is actually a higher ratio than irregular French verbs!
        That just looked horribly wicked to me.
        Then there are verbs, with singular, dual, and plural forms....

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