On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 01:37 +0530, Vinod Parthasarathy wrote: > Pure tamil is primarily for purists, poets and tamil enthusiasts, just > as > pure mathematics is for mathematicians and math enthusiasts!
there is nothing as such as pure Tamil. If one doesn't understand a Tamil word, he is lacking skills on Tamil, the ways to rectify it is to refer to a Tamil dictionary. translation is done for people who lack English skills. Say Virtualization. It will take time for such people to understand what the word Virtual means and then later its meaning. But if it is represented to him as பாசாங்கியல் - the word பாசாங்கு in Tamil refers to இல்லாததை இருப்பது போல் காட்டுதல், he understands it even better. thats the whole purpose of translation. hope that makes sense, we will maintain Linux as Linux etc., No worries.. Where there is no alternative (there will be certainly be cases of that kind), we can take up the word itself converting it phonetically, just like திருவல்லிக்கேணி becomes Triplicane in English. -- ஆமாச்சு
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