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"[T]his paper introduces some newly coined or newly defined technical terms in English for their counterparts in Tamil grammatical terminology. Traditional Tamil grammar, and particularly Tamil prosody, contains quite some features and theories that are unique and explainable within their own system only. Earlier studies on Tamil grammar, including those undertaken by the first missionaries and — in a way — "fathers of European Tamil studies", render the Tamil technical terms into terms common within our own grammatical systems, hence always largely influenced by Latin (or Old Greek) theories of grammar and thus bearing connotations which are not suitable to the Tamil system. In the same way, the modern development, applying new linguistic terms borrowed from different schools of modern linguistics and always carrying with them backgrounds of particular systems of grammatical theory, is not really helpful in the task of trying to understand (and to make understand) traditional Tamil grammar. Obviously, the on
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oligoglot / cat-all-pages-count.py
Last active November 27, 2016 14:35 — forked from junaidpv/cat-all-pages-count.py
Count all pages within a category and its sub-categories recursively
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Description
Count all pages within a category and its sub-categories recursively
Modifying Junaid's code with a Tamil Wiki example.
@author Junaid, Sundar
"""
import wikipedia
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oligoglot / setup_es_on_RHEL.sh
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
Steps to install Java and Elastic Search on a RHEL machine
wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Ftechnetwork%2Fjava%2Fjavase%2Fdownloads%2Fjdk-7u3-download-1501626.html;" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u3-b04/jdk-7u3-linux-x64.rpm
mv jdk-7u3-linux-x64.rpm\?AuthParam\=1393437081_af59f13f1a214e78002ff5b52af7ae59 jdk-7u3-linux-x64.rpm #the auth param will vary across sessions
sudo rpm -Uvh jdk-7u3-linux-x64.rpm
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.0.1.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh elasticsearch-1.0.1.noarch.rpm
sudo service elasticsearch start
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add elasticsearch
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install elasticsearch
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oligoglot / setup_es.sh
Created February 13, 2014 16:31
Steps to install Elastic Search
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.0.0.deb
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.0.0.deb