> > > For any language, vocabulary indicates its richness. because, words > represent virtually everything, whether its object, or an abstract thought, > or an emotional feeling. So, richness in vocabulary means, refined > representation of ideas and objects. > > Now coming to the core point, English had the vast set of vocabulary, which > is used for comparative analysis and also differential learning. For > example, the meaning for discovery and invention is different in english > context, but its represented by the same word in tamil. > > There are many technical words, which doesnt have an equivalent word in > tamil. Which means, we could not represent those technical subjects > properly here. >
we missing a lot in Tamil. we have to do many more projects.. > The need of the hour is to create new words in tamil to represent the > developments, but at the same time, acceptable to the people. > > For that, we can develop a collobarative platform, so that learned tamil > scholars, (also common people) across the globe, could suggest tamil words > for english words, and discuss about that. When more people participate in > that, we have more number of choices of words, and as it matures, we can > choose a best fitting word for each english word. > > I have few suggestions. > > 1. The requirement document for this project can be maintained in tamil > itself. (an initiative for software development in tamil) > > 2. This can be developed as a long term project with wide participation, > and > such a project can become wikipedia of tamil.. (for words) > > 3. If it clicks, we can get funding from tamilnadu government too :) > > Advanced apology, if my idea is too silly. gud ides. if some one really interested thats great we can take this forward. -- அன்புடன் அருண் ------------------------------ http://ubuntu-tam.org http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-l10n-tam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-tam ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
