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Re: Adding new words in hunspell dictionary

To: balaji <ksbalaji11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: amachu <amachu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:54:14 +0530
Cc: tamilspellchecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:49 +0000, balaji wrote:
> 
> Dear friends,
> Kindly correct me if I am wrong. I find almost 50% Sanskrit based
> words in the list! Is it not a bit too much to include this much
> Sanskrit based words in Tamil dictionary? To be frank, my mother
> tongue should have been Sanskrit instead of Tamil, if my forefathers
> were truly speaking the Sanskrit language. But that does not give me
> any right to allow percolation of too many Sanskrit based words inside
> a Tamil dictionary. Other language based words are also there - but
> only a few.


Balaji,

We have have just collected and put the wordlist available with Tamil
Lexicon of Madras University. We do find other language words in it.

--

Sri Ramadoss M

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Adding new words in hunspell dictionary
From: balaji, 2009-09-21