[Assam] Discussion in XOBDO

[Buljit Buragohain]

XOBDO is your dictionary! You can add words, challenge them and thus decide its destiny. Just initiate a discussion or post your view point on any of the ACTIVE discussions about the correctness of the spellings and their meanings. At the end of the discussion, your view point will be taken into considerations to update the dictionary entries. 
 
  
Remember the new site - www.xobdo.net. 
  
 
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.
 
Remember the new site - www.xobdo.net. 
   
   
  Thank You,
   
  Buljit Buragohain
  Publicity Team,
  www.xobdo.net.



       
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