On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, senthilraja P <technocr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > On 8/15/09, naga raja <naga_ra...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > > > can anyone suggest any kind of tamil related projects > > > For long, i had this in my mind.. let me know if it interests you. > > 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. > > 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. > we dont need another collobarative platform than wikitionary. already people from Free Tamil Computing list are describing words in tamil wikitionary. please check here http://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D > > I have few suggestions. > > 1. The requirement document for this project can be maintained in tamil > itself. (an initiative for software development in tamil) not necessarily important for project but though a good thing. > > 2. This can be developed as a long term project with wide participation, > and > such a project can become wikipedia of tamil.. (for words) > there is already a tamil wiktionary > > 3. If it clicks, we can get funding from tamilnadu government too :) > govt never funds for good project. - balachandar muruganantham உலகம்.net - இலவச தமிழ் வலைப்பதிவுச் சேவை - http://ulagam.net எனது தமிழ் பக்கங்கள் - http://www.balachandar.net/pakkangal Beyond Work - http://beyondwork.wordpress.com/ "மடியிலா மன்னவன் எய்தும் அடியளந்தான் தாஅய தெல்லாம் ஒருங்கு. " - குறள் எண் : 610 _______________________________________________ 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
