Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 10:06:51 EDT


On 07/30/2002 05:13:58 AM "Sinnathurai Srivas" wrote:

>OS should not be allowed to make Language a static thing of the past.
>At present the OS asumes that it understands the Grammar and prevents
>modifications and some times make mistakes in Grammar too.

It's not that OSes try to force languages to be static; it's just that
software must be designed to emulate some particular behaviour, and doesn't
automatically change just because the thing being emulated changes.

- Peter

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