Thread for discussing John Kelly’s Pāli Class (G&K) Class 4 for the class on April 7th/ 8th 2024.
Meeting ID: 829 5896 1475
Passcode: anicca
Homework preparation for this class:
Study Gair and Karunatillake Lesson II: Grammar, pp. 18 - 25
Study G&K Glossary II-1, pp. 15 – 17
Complete Lesson II, 1st set of readings, pp.14 – 15
If you didn’t complete the Lesson I Further Readings, pp.11-12, which was assigned as homework last week, please try and tackle them now. They all follow a very similar pattern to many of the Initial Readings which we went over in some detail during class today
Daylight Savings change back in NZ and some states of Australia.
On the morning of Sunday April 7, the clocks move back one hour as DST ends.
As far as I know, this will affect the start time of our next class on April 8 for @hoffmann , @Dheerayupa , and @Sumana . I hope I haven’t missed anyone.
For everyone else - if DST is changing in your time zone, please make a note of the changed class start time.
There is no DST where I live in Brisbane, so class time here will always be 9am on Monday.
The time in the OP was set to Sydney timezone (which seems to have a DST), that’s why there was an error for conversion on Apr 8.
@WayChuang please refresh the topic and check if the correct time is displayed now.
@johnk it’s better to set the start and end times in your local TZ, this way the system will always compensate for the various global TZs automagically
Sorry for asking a question unrelated to the New Course in Reading Pali. What is the exact gender of second person pronoun? Say, if I have tvaṁ in a sentence and there is an adjective describing tvaṁ, how should the adjective be inflected? Should I treat tvaṁ as of neuter gender and thus inflect the adjective using neuter, singular, nominative case? I’m playing with Pali Primer because Lesson 2 is too steep a hurdle for me, while Pali Primer is easier to digest.
I think it would depend on the gender of the person (or noun) “you” is referring to. So you would say “you are blond” to a man and “you are blonde” to a woman. Yes still in the singular and nominative.
BTW, Way Chuang, no need for an apology at all. As long as your question is related to learning Pāli, then that’s fine.
I’m playing with Pali Primer because Lesson 2 is too steep a hurdle for me, while Pali Primer is easier to digest.
I think this is a very good idea to supplement your learning by going through the Pāli Primer as well. I encourage other students brand new to Pāli to do this too. G&K Lesson 2 is indeed challenging and I will be going through it very slowly.