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Pretty easy for those used to writing in Hindi. Write a 'Ra' and a straight line across the middle.
by GeneralMaximus 16y ago
Pretty 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!
- Setsuna 16y agoRomanji
- corprew 16y agoLatin Alphabet and Arabic Numerals.
- FraaJad 16y agoYou mean Hindu Numerals[1]. The Arabs just passed on the Positional Notations on to the Europeans. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_sy...