[Fsf-friends] Tamil translation for "free software"

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Dileep M. Kumar said on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:16:19AM +0530,:

 > In  Malayalam   we  can  call  Free  Software   as  "Swatantra  Ganana
 > Soothram". What do other Malayalees in this list say ?

While this  is literally accurate, in modern  Malayalam, `soothram' is
understood as a `trick'.

My vote is for `software'.

Let us  not go the French  way.  The French, unlike  the English (that
is,  people  living  in  England)  have a  sort  of  puritanic/fanatic
approach  to their  language. They  go out  of way  to find  their own
substitutes  for  concepts borrowed  from  other languages.  Linguists
agree that  as a consequence  of such fanaticism, the  French language
is much poorer.

We can try to learn from errors of the French.

BTW, French term for `software' is something like `logicel'

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