Re:Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer's Take on the C...
by anilgulecha on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:05AM
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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
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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
As a Bollywood superstar famously quotes: English is a funny language.