On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM, senthilraja P <technocraze@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Hi,
On 8/15/09, naga raja <naga_raja1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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)
govt never funds for good project.
3. If it clicks, we can get funding from tamilnadu government too :)