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Every time I see "Gandhi" spelled as "Ghandi", I die a little inside. (And, just to be clear, it was NPR who got it wrong, not the poster above.)
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
Every time I see "Gandhi" spelled as "Ghandi", I die a little inside.
(And, just to be clear, it was NPR who got it wrong, not the poster above.)
- exit 16y agowhy? both spellings are pretty close to the same pronunciation.
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- shrikant 16y agoIn English, yeah probably. In Hindi, not so much - the position of the 'h' matters. In any case, is that rule one applies to names? That it's okay to mangle the true spelling as long as the pronunciation remains the same?
- michael_dorfman 16y agoRespect. A man as impressive and significant as Gandhi, and people can't be arsed to get his name right?
- da5e 16y agoHindi doesn't even use the same alphabet. So there is nothing that looks like Gandhi or Ghandi in Hindi at all. The equivalent translations are the same for both spellings.