Re: [WMASTERS] vikramAthithanum vEthALamum

[Bala Pillai <bala@apic.net>]

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Anbulla Velmurugan,

Many thanks for taking the trouble to:-

a) express your opinion in webmasters and
b) adopting a non-intimidating tone in doing so

I respect your opinion although I disagree with its implementation
*timing*. Yes, it is very important that opinions from all ends of the
spectrum are aired in somewhat *clinical* non-intimidating fashion. 

Otherwise, we will have too many trapped genies that will strangle
decisions during their execution phase.

anbudan..../bala
bala@tamil.net
sydney, australia

p.s. thanks to avid tamil dot netter, Ramani, for introducing me the term
"trapped genies" :-)

At 09:37 PM 10/5/97 -0000, Velmurugan Periasamy wrote:
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>Hello All,
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>I have zero knowledge in font encoding and standardization efforts. But I
>have been observing the discussions going here,only because my mother tongue
>is Thamilh. On that front, I dare to write here. Thanks.
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>Shanmugavel Ponniah Wrote:
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>>My main intention was that all of us should start thinking about the
reality.
>>The first 'EuroEnglish' email clearly tells us that if anybody wants to
>>reform 
>>any well established language used by millions of people world wide then 
>>you have to name your version of the language as 'EuroEnglish' or 
>>'SomeEnglish' and here comes a new language.
>
>I beg to differ here. At first, any new idea will seem to be far from
>reality. But in reality, they are not. Take the case of New aikAra
>letters(in stead of ORNL's). How many people are exposed to the new scheme?
>Had not the old letters well established? How the transition has been made
>possible? I'm not talking about long long ago. It happened nearly 20 years
>ago. And the new letters have been accepted and become standard. 
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>I'm not telling that we should ignore Grantha letters. But we should think
>of other possibilities also. Discarding something new only because it's more
>different from the old or there'll be lot of practical problems implementing
>that, will do no help for us.
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>We are coming up with new things only because the old ones are flawed. Then
>why do we need to stick to the old ones? We have to think of the
>alternatives also. But in this forum, we are all more concerned about the
>implementation problems and more or less heading towards accepting Grantha
>letters. I agree, Keeping Grantha will reduce a lot of problems. But our
>attitude should not be like this. We should try to make Thamilh more usable
>in every walk of life by enriching that. There lies the growth and life of
>the language, not in dumping some new charecters now and then.
>
>That is the exact worry of people like Dr.Anu. We may disagree with them.
>But we should give respect to the sentiments of them. If we don't use
>anything, eventually it will become useless.
>
>My point is,we should have to be open minded to new things.
>
>My heartiest thanks to everyone in this forum for working to keep Thamilh
>alive. Hope we will draft the standard in time.
>
>Thanks for reading.
>Velmurugan.
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