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Speak Hindi all day, but cannot guess a single letter in a 100 tries! Shows how much this language's usage in writing and reading has declined.

cuteboy19 5y ago
devanagari is not meant for such puzzles
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- plibither8 5y ago
  In what way is it not meant for puzzles, as opposed to English?
  - cuteboy19 5y ago
    The Latin Alphabet treats vovels and consonants equally, whereas alphasyllabaries treat vovels differently. It's much easier to construct letter games if all the letters are more or less the same. Add to that the complexity that ligatures bring. Plus the number 9f letters should be small so that games like scrabble are more reasonable
umeshunni 5y ago
Do most Hindi speakers now use the Latin script?
- txtsd 5y ago
  Yes, and it's awful because it isn't standardized. Current generations frequently use only consonants to type out a word and I have no idea how to pronounce them. For example "hai" (pronounced "hey") roughly translates to "is". I literally see kids typing a singular "h" instead.
  - bakul 5y ago
    For most Indian languages you can use IAST & can use an IAST keyboard, as it transliterates sanskrit based letters precisely. Though I don’t know why people don’t just use the original scripts as they are much more beautiful and you can find (virtual) keyboards for them even for ios & android. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sans...
  - plibither8 5y ago
    Welp, don't get me started on the "hai"->"h" contractions! The one that irks me the most is अच्छा (good, pronounced "uh-ch-aah" with a hard and emphasized "ch") is written as "axa" in chats (more popularly written as "achha").
    - HarshitDoshi 5y ago
      I am old! "Axa" is seriously everything that is wrong with the way newer generations are using the language with English alphabets! I still cannot believe people do this. I have personally set a standard or a set of rules for writing Hindi using English alphabets myself and I have seen my friends follow the same. We do not use such shortcuts/shortforms. Hell, even "Acha" is not the correct way. It must be "Achha" (double Hs).
- captn3m0 5y ago
  Depends a lot on the medium and the demographic. Twitter has a lot of native Hindi users, and there’s more on some platforms such as Sharechat which focus on Indic languages. Twitter even does a good enough job of translating Hindi written in the Devnagri script. Doesn’t work if you use Latin script obviously.
- throwaway158497 5y ago
  Not really. news channels, print media, billboards, internet websites use devanagari script. But in Messenger apps, FB, Telegram, people use latin script.
Grumpy34 5y ago
I'm also a native Hindi speaker and I've never in my life used the word which is the correct answer. The game creator should have chosen more popular words.
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aldebran 5y ago
I’m in the US and very rarely speak Hindi let alone read it and got it in the first try. I thought it’s a very common word, no?

cuteboy19 5y ago

devanagari is not meant for such puzzles

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plibither8 5y ago
In what way is it not meant for puzzles, as opposed to English?
- cuteboy19 5y ago
  The Latin Alphabet treats vovels and consonants equally, whereas alphasyllabaries treat vovels differently. It's much easier to construct letter games if all the letters are more or less the same. Add to that the complexity that ligatures bring. Plus the number 9f letters should be small so that games like scrabble are more reasonable

umeshunni 5y ago

Do most Hindi speakers now use the Latin script?

txtsd 5y ago
Yes, and it's awful because it isn't standardized. Current generations frequently use only consonants to type out a word and I have no idea how to pronounce them. For example "hai" (pronounced "hey") roughly translates to "is". I literally see kids typing a singular "h" instead.
- bakul 5y ago
  For most Indian languages you can use IAST & can use an IAST keyboard, as it transliterates sanskrit based letters precisely. Though I don’t know why people don’t just use the original scripts as they are much more beautiful and you can find (virtual) keyboards for them even for ios & android. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sans...
- plibither8 5y ago
  Welp, don't get me started on the "hai"->"h" contractions! The one that irks me the most is अच्छा (good, pronounced "uh-ch-aah" with a hard and emphasized "ch") is written as "axa" in chats (more popularly written as "achha").
  - HarshitDoshi 5y ago
    I am old! "Axa" is seriously everything that is wrong with the way newer generations are using the language with English alphabets! I still cannot believe people do this. I have personally set a standard or a set of rules for writing Hindi using English alphabets myself and I have seen my friends follow the same. We do not use such shortcuts/shortforms. Hell, even "Acha" is not the correct way. It must be "Achha" (double Hs).
captn3m0 5y ago
Depends a lot on the medium and the demographic. Twitter has a lot of native Hindi users, and there’s more on some platforms such as Sharechat which focus on Indic languages. Twitter even does a good enough job of translating Hindi written in the Devnagri script. Doesn’t work if you use Latin script obviously.
throwaway158497 5y ago
Not really. news channels, print media, billboards, internet websites use devanagari script. But in Messenger apps, FB, Telegram, people use latin script.

Grumpy34 5y ago

I'm also a native Hindi speaker and I've never in my life used the word which is the correct answer. The game creator should have chosen more popular words.

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aldebran 5y ago

I’m in the US and very rarely speak Hindi let alone read it and got it in the first try. I thought it’s a very common word, no?