Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey

Re:Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey by jonsen on Sunday January 23, 2011 @11:16AM (#2132637)

"... modem examples like Martin Luther King or Ghandi"

For sure they were great communicators. But ... ;)

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Re:Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey by michael_dorfman on Sunday January 23, 2011 @11:53AM (#2132729)

Every time I see "Gandhi" spelled as "Ghandi", I die a little inside.

(And, just to be clear, it was NPR who got it wrong, not the poster above.)

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Re:Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey by da5e on Sunday January 23, 2011 @03:58PM (#2133310)

Hindi doesn't even use the same alphabet. So there is nothing that looks like Gandhi or Ghandi in Hindi at all. The equivalent translations are the same for both spellings.

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Re:Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey by exit on Sunday January 23, 2011 @12:00PM (#2132752)

why? both spellings are pretty close to the same pronunciation.

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Re:Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey by shrikant on Sunday January 23, 2011 @01:58PM (#2133036)

In English, yeah probably. In Hindi, not so much - the position of the 'h' matters.

In any case, is that rule one applies to names? That it's okay to mangle the true spelling as long as the pronunciation remains the same?

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Re:Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey by michael_dorfman on Sunday January 23, 2011 @02:50PM (#2133158)

Respect.

A man as impressive and significant as Gandhi, and people can't be arsed to get his name right?

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