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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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