Hi sauravda,
I guess we were talking at cross purposes all this while ! I wrote in my very first post,
"This scheme is not meant for use in software program just becaue it is too complicated and scores of more practical systems can be figured out to do the same ... "
When I prepared the scheme I did it so that we can write Assamese words (esp names of people, places, songs etc) in Roman font without losing or trying not tose their original phonetic quality so that even a person inexperienced in Assamese can read it. I didnt think of writing down the roman font and getting back the assamese fonts thru some software at that time... But now your question seems to be how to MODIFY the phonetically correct (really !?) scheme so that people can intuitively use it in softwares, emails etc.. The 'o' u propose is DEFINITELY superior to my paltry 'a' while typing for the layman...
Now there are two things we can do about the 'a'/'o' perplexity....
1. Change the original scheme and use 'o' as a Universal Standard.
2. Use 'o' in "roman-input-to-assmese-font-output" softwares and use "a" while writing Assamese words in english..
If we use the "o' as an universal standard we might face quite a few problems ....e.g., as Mr. Rabin Deka pointed out .....we will write Chandra kanta Bharali or Chondro Kanto Bhorali ?? Thats why I guess using 'o' when we r using "roman characters as input and want to get assamese characters as output" and using 'a' when ' we start from assamese characters but wanna get roman characters as out put' should be a better suggestion....
Thanks for ur advice
Syamanta Saikia
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Saurav Pathak Wrote:
syamanta-da,
i accept your arguments. but the purpose of suggesting "o" instead of "a" was to make native speakers comfortable with the transliteration, not foreign speakers. as jugal-da pointed out, the "a" makes it uncomfortable. i use transliterated assamese sometimes in my personal emails. and to me "o" came naturally.
i am afraid that if the native speaker doesnot feel comfortable, he will desist from using it, and then there will be no need for a scheme anyway.
on the other hand a standard, widely accepted scheme has many advantages.
saurav
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