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Re:Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers by thedravidian on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:47AM (#27956770)
> If you know the name is from an Indian language, read "a" as the "u" in "putt"

Please stop making up stuff like "an Indian language". If you mean Hindi-Urdu and that language family, then just call it that, don't subtly encourage people to think that is the language for all of India.

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Re:Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers by Epenthesis on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:54PM (#27964537)
I believe it's true for most of the sprachbund, including my native language Kannada (which is a Dravidian language very much unrelated to Hindi)
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Re:Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers by thedravidian on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:53AM (#28034375)
Example?
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