[Hamara-devel] indian english spell checker in hamara ?

[akshat]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:32 AM, mandiv <mr.mangesh at openmailbox.org> wrote:

>
> think language is medium of communication so adding new words is Ok as far
> as people understood  it. and happy to use those words
>

​So you mean to say that any word can be added, as some people will be very
happy if they find abusive words in the dictionary.
​


> because there are some words there in pure Indian languages those are not
> in use  and people can not understand them.
> like "*kalfalak*" for *keyboard* in Hindi/Marathi so we don't have any
> option other than  keyboard  to use.
>
>
I agree these words are not in use but these are the case with the words
which got popular because their origin/invention is native to some other
country. Like Biscuit is a french word and widely adopted similarly most of
the Science and Technical words are adopted from Greeks so, we can live
with that in addition to have their hindi or language specific
counterparts, but polluting a language with its slang will not be a good
option.

​


> On Monday 30 November 2015 11:52 AM, akshat wrote:
>
>
> I don't think its a good idea to spoil the dictionary of a language with
> inadequate mixing of unnecessary urban words. However it will be much
> better to have hindi words in hindi dictionary by hindi I mean pure hindi
> and there also please don't add urban hinglish words and also spoil hindi,
> if anyone wants they can make separate dictionary or they can add the word
> to the dictionary database according to their need but it should not go
> bundled by default with the distribution. Moreover jugaad is not a pure
> hindi word its a slang and we should not promote slang on the name of
> hindi, much more adequate word bhi prabandh. So, please don't add tadka and
> Garam Masala in pure Salad to make it feel like chicken Biryani. If anyone
> wants chicken Biryani of their flavor they will make themselves by adding
> the ingredients of their choice.
> On Nov 23, 2015 11:12 PM, "shirish" < <shirish at hamaralinux.org>
> shirish at hamaralinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While there are various English spell-checkers in Debian and other
>> distros. there isn't an Indian english spell-checker for various languages.
>> It would be nice to have such a spell-checker in hamara which will reduce
>> the time it takes for a new user to start using the system. The
>> spell-checker would be useful in many ways :-
>>
>> a. We would know words that we use and those get added to the database
>> and hence new release of the package (say every 3 months or so).
>>
>> b.Each regional language has its special 'tadka' or twist to English
>> terms. For e.g. 'Jugaad' while being a hindi/devanagri word is also written
>> in English and is very much part of the Hinglish generation. There is also
>> a movie which just came out which reinforces the term
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaadi_Dot_Com which is a Punjabi movie.
>>
>> A list of such Indian-English words, updation, support etc. would make
>> hamara a pretty unique offering.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Shirish Agarwal,
>> Community Lead,
>> Hamaralinux.org
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