Re: Old Languages
| From: | Amber Adams <amber@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 8:07 |
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Yeah, but with Hindi, I can actually talk to people! ;)
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:13:24AM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > You just summarized the main reasons I decided to steer clear of Sanskrit,
> > and continue with Hindi instead. ;)
>
> But the noun declensions are quite easy to remember,
> and a great help if you're studying Indo-European.
> It's the verb conjugations that are truly horrible,
> but fortunately, Sanskrit relies mostly on participial
> construction, and preciously few finite verb forms
> occur in actual texts.