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Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by anon291 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:15AM (#44794540)
Devanagari has much more phonetic structure than English spelling.

The English Latin letter arrangement holds a tenuous phonetic connection to pronunciation half the time, whereas the devanagari usually indicates exactly how you say it.

Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by anilgulecha on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:05AM (#44795101)
Perhaps explains why Indian accent is the way it is - most of the time it's a literal phonetic translation. Words like "champagne" are source of joke for any English learner, but even a simple word like "nature" has a phonetic translation of "Na two rae".

As a Bollywood superstar famously quotes: English is a funny language.

Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C... by anon291 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:50PM (#44804862)
It's that plus the fact that half of spoken Hindi is actually English words cobbled into the language similar to how English was latinized due to the normans and french