India (Assam): demolish the man-made language barrier

[Harold Schiffman]

Assam] XOBDO Policy
Sat, 19 April 2008 08:17
Buljit Buragohain

1. VISION: (a) To demolish the man-made language barrier and thereby
fuel mutual understanding and cooperation among the people of the
entire North-East India.
(b) Bring the languages of the North-East to the fore-front of the
Information Technology age.

2. MISSION: Cooperate constructively with all possible quarters to
build multilingual dictionaries and other linguistic resources to
strive to materialize the visions.

3. GENERAL POLICY (for Online Dictionary): (a) XOBDO attempts to
capture the languages as they are used (i.e. spoken, written and
understood) today in their original forms. It does not attempt to
enforce or express its own viewpoint about any spelling or semantics
to be right or wrong.

b) Therefore, XOBDO does not want to follow any specific dictionary or
any glossary/word-list published by any authority or entity; neither
it accepts opinions of any expert. Rather, it considers the
present-day meaning to be the standard as it is evidenced in
'contemporary use' i.e.
i) Appear in renowned newspapers, magazines or the writings of well
known authors and journalists

ii) Extensively used (spoken or written) in special fields or areas
like judicial courts, govt. offices, religious institutes, traditional
functions etc.


c) XOBDO also attempts to record the languages as they were used in the past.

e) XOBDO is not in the business of inventing or coining new words. Any
word proposed to be added in XOBDO must have 'contemporary use' as
explained above. In case of a new word coined recently, XOBDO will not
add it unless it appears in at least one renowned newspaper or
magazine.

d) Anybody can become member and contribute words to the dictionary.
He/she can also challenge the spellings or meanings entered. Through
discussions with other members of XOBDO a consensus decision has to be
taken within a reasonable time frame and the entry has to be updated
accordingly.



http://assamnet.org/posts/index.php?t=rview&goto=3406&th=1660#msg_3406

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