hi all, > > > People joining this list beware that posts will also be Tamil, the > > language of the state of Tamilnadu and tolerate and co-operate or > > learn Tamil. > > this is not the Linux Users Group of the State of Tamilnadu. It is the > Chennai > chapter of the Indian Linux Users Group. India is a country with around 35 > major languages and hundreds of minor languages.
People in ILUGC who are also member of Mumbai, Delhi, other metro and major cities' linux user groups kindly shed light on this. We can get to know whether people are allowed to post in their state language or English or their own mother tongue(those which are spoken by minimum people and the state language is different). And how they handle such threads. > And, except for a few > fanatics in a few cities, a country which enjoys this linguistic diversity > and > is very tolerant of other languages. Yes all indians respect each others' language. > > > > > I appeal all Tamil people, also to post in Tamil. Yesterday I was > > alone and Padhu, Thanigai, Arun and few more have joined now :-) > Here I am +1 so non Tamil people are not supposed to post in Tamil??? If they have such an interest towards the language tamil which has the second oldest grammar in Indian languages(Ofcouse tholkappiam's date may be even older) let them convert from beschi to veeramamunivar<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanzo_Beschi>. We aren't forcing anyone. > > > > > I expect more and more people join this initiative so that ten-twenty > > five years down the line we can dream the other way.. > > dream on - it will not happen. You are against "dream come true".... > > > > A decade back the situation was different and now its totally different.. > > please go and start a Tamil linux group There are already a bunch of tamil linux user groups. > -- > regards > kg > http://lawgon.livejournal.com > If there is any suggested way to post in Tamil or English let everyone follow it. To my knowledge there are people who are not able to post properly in english get some sarcastic comments here. We can allow them to ask their questions in the state language(here tamil). *Solution for this issue : * *Thread specific:* *Thread strarting : *Let the thread starter post in the language he knows more - tamil or english. If he knows both lang(eng & tam) let him add the translation or else some one who is proficient in both languages post translation. *Thread replies :* Replies can be both in English and tamil. If the translation from tamil to english or english to tamil is needed, whoever has free time can post replies in the thread with translations(I dont know whether this will be feasible). *Achievements:* Everyone gets answer/suggestion here. Even in archives there is answer for all questions. We can avoid this thread which gets started every 3 months... *Disadvantage: *Threads become big in size(twice or more. I know list admin wont allow this method). Some confusions may arise. Adding Thamizh or Tamil or Tamiz in the subject is needed when someone types tamil words with english alphabets. If the subject is in thamizh alphabets why ask some one to add Thamizh or Tamil or Tamiz in the subject. If so there will be a need for subject additions(If we all respect each other): Kannadam Malayalam Urudu Telugu ....etc., in all linux user groups. I posted the above to come to a conclusion let us not start a war from here. regards, Ignacius _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc