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Interesting. Looks very pretty but also time consuming to draw - 4 lines and not particularly easy transitions between them. I'll hazard a guess that people wi
by lionhearted 16y ago
Interesting. Looks very pretty but also time consuming to draw - 4 lines and not particularly easy transitions between them. I'll hazard a guess that people will naturally evolve a stripped down version of it for common usage.
- nreece 16y agotime consuming to draw - 4 lines You can write it in just two strokes.
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- igravious 16y agoI just tried a few times and I make it 3 strokes. Also my attempts look crummy compared to the elegant representation on that indianexpress.com website. The euro, yen, sterling and dollar are easier to get sort of right and all look more natural. I could easily just be biased due to prolonged exposure. Interestingly the Chinese yaun (Renminbi?) shares the same currency sign as the Japanese yen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A5 edit: yup, 2! Start from the top right and go left then make the r shape and then the other line across. Nice! Thx!
- GeneralMaximus 16y agoPretty easy for those used to writing in Hindi. Write a 'Ra' and a straight line across the middle.
- FraaJad 16y agoYou mean Devanagari. Hindi has no script of it's own. Few other Indian languages also use Devanagari. Eg: Sanskrit, Marathi, Konkani.
- kranner 16y ago"A few" other Indian languages...
- sid0 16y agoConflating "few" and "a few" or "little" and "a little" is a common Indian English-ism, I find. /Indian
- kranner 16y agoCorrect, articles are dropped and sometimes arbitrarily added; at least the 'the' is. I wouldn't mind normally, but in the case of 'few' vs 'a few' it can be genuinely confusing because there is a drastic change of meaning.
- FraaJad 16y agoYou are right. By the time I saw your comment, the "edit" link had disappeared.
- jacobolus 16y agoHe likely means Hindi. It would be perfectly reasonable to say, e.g., “Pretty easy for those used to writing in English to write a $ symbol”.
- ugh 16y agoThat got me thinking: what would be the English equivalent? Latin alphabet? I’ve never heard anybody say that (outside of contexts were writing systems were explicitly discussed).
- sgrove 16y agoI often say "the Roman alphabet", which seems a bit odd. I suppose it's because I most frequently started talking about it in Japanese/Korean, where it's called "Roman letters". A bit of googling says that it can be called both Roman and Latin. Yay for trivia!