----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Mulraney" <ataltanie@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> Jean-François Colson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
> > To: <CONLANG@...>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> >
> >
> >
> >>If you're interested, there's a free online Sanskrit course there:
> >>
http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/lessons/Devan/intro.html.
> >
> >
> > Err... That's rather a course about the Devanagari script. Nothing seems
> > available there about Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary.
>
> Interesting nonetheless.
> It's rather... involved, is it not? the script, that it. After working
though
> all the vowels and consonant-series, you're told that there are a few
thousand
> ligatures that are used too.
... and that most of them are made using the half forms of the consonants.
> If that many are needed, I'd judge the memory
> load of this script to be greater than the famed "5000 hanzi" needed for
> reading some level of Chinese. At least the hanzi are iconic.
Or the 1945 Japanese Jouyou kanji + some thousands you need if you want to
read some technical texts.
But are you sure that the ideographs are really iconic in the present time.
Those characters evolved to such a point it's difficult to make the link
between the character shape and its meanings, except perhaps if you have
studied their etimology. ;-)
>
> s.
>
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> >
> >>Jean-François Colson
> >>jfcolson (a) belgacom.net
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Stephen Mulraney" <ataltanie@...>
> >>To: <CONLANG@...>
> >>Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:02 PM
> >>Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>J Y S Czhang wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>In a message dated 2003:08:08 04:20:48 AM, Indiadivine@indiadivine.org
> >>
> >>writes:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Learn Sanskrit for Beginners: Simple and clear lessons for learning
> >>>>>sanskrit, beginning from the very basics of writing and
pronunciation,
> >>>>>up to complex grammar and comprehension. The complete CD for learning
> >>>>>sanskrit, for just $7.95.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
http://www.matchless-gifts.com/learnsanskrit.htm
> >>>
> >>> From what I've seen, the TY Sanskrit pictured on that page is a pretty
> >>
> >>good
> >>
> >>>text. My exposure to it is limited to glancing through in shops at
> >
> > various
> >
> >>>stages of my life and finding something interesting, like a brief
> >>
> >>disquisition
> >>
> >>>on PIE/Sanskrit "vowel grades" and whatnot. It looks good'n'nerdy.
> >>>
> >>>Of course, even if this is a CD version of that book, it may be no
> >>>But it if has recordings of the text, then that in itself is quite an
> >>
> >>advantage,
> >>
> >>>no? (hey, never mind that no-one ever speaks Sanskirt. What's that got
> >
> > to
> >
> >>do
> >>
> >>>with anything, eh?)
> >>>
> >>>s.
> >>>
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> >>>If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
> >>>he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
> >>>however measured or far away. ~Henry David Thoreau
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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