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Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by ashishb on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:13PM (#44793625)
> My personal theory is that this is because you can make every sound you hear in English using the Devnagari script, but not the other way around.

Not true. There are phonemes which are similar but distinct.

For example

  -  `v and w` map to the same thing in Hindi
  - th and थ are allophones but different sounds
https://ashishb.net/linguistics/hindi-english-phonemes-that-...

Hindi written in Devanagari is highly phonetic (not perfect but near perfect). However, English is not phonetic at all. E.g., "Th" in Then is different from the "Th" sound in Father.

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Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by devilbunny on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:32PM (#44793727)
We must be using different forms of English, then, because they sound the same to me. “Thin” and “then” do not.
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Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by ashishb on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:10AM (#44794256)
Sorry I meant think and not then.
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Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by umeshunni on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:49PM (#44793817)
Indeed.

In US pronunciation, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑðɚ.

In UK (received), Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːðə(ɹ).

In Indian English, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːd̪ə(r)

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