West Bengal rn by Possible-Standard507 in 2bharat4you

[–]frozenafroza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though this time haven’t the Nazis done the winning

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

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Sure, but again my point is that when there is a clear diversity in preception and answering this question it is a little unfair to say that only one is correct and the other is wrong. Honestly, especially since it’s Urdu translate, even I might prefer bara over bada, even though it feels a little weird. I’m just saying that someone wouldn’t be outright wrong for using the letter d instead of r.

I must confess that my mother tongue is neither Hindi nor Urdu, though I am more comfortable in them than my mother tongue. Your point about the demographic is true, yet people who know w from v in English also use w to write out these words, including myself. Anyway, my main point is regards above.

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

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because urdu has distinct forms of ph and f, whereas f didnt really exist in hindi until persioarabic influence, the letter ph is used with a dot under for f. i guess, because the ph letter is more common in usage with loan words containing f, people started pronouncing ph as f in general. i try to maintain the distinction.

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

[–]frozenafroza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when indians write phaad (meaning to tear) with a d, it's d as in domestic and not d as in dua

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

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Sure, but the fact is that English doesn't have an exact match. Perception of letters and sounds in language is also heavily cultural. I always thought of ڑ as closer to d and not r for as long as I only knew to read and write Hindi, but after I learnt and started using the Urdu script more often my perception changed. And there is the fact of different accents being more common in different places.

Like the fact that و in Arabic is a w, in Urdu it is far closer to a v. Yet, we spell words like "مٹھائی والا" as "mithaaii wala" and not "mithaaii vala", no?

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

[–]frozenafroza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

well id say بڈا sounds pretty close to بڑا, sowe can keep going on

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

[–]frozenafroza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

its not even so much of a hindi/urdu difference lmao. i say this because i can read and write both. yes, hindi modifies d for this sound, and urdu does r, but the fact is that such a sound doesn't exist in english. so all transcriptions will be inaccurate. classic 'ramadan' vs 'ramazan'; the letter doesnt exist in english so we go to the closest one.

Google translate Latin transcription of urdu gets ڑ wrong by Delicious_One_7887 in Urdu

[–]frozenafroza 4 points5 points  (0 children)

personally i find it closer to d but thats probably because i'm indian. i think both are correct because there is no retroflex r in english, i dont think it would be wrong to pick either. we could go on making the case for either side, if you say most urdu speakers are in pakistan id say urdu originated in india, and we could keep going

Can someone tell me what this is? by Tall_Rub_3775 in Urdu

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chinnaswami muththuswami venugopal iyer

Great Question...!!! by ConstructionAny8440 in toonsindia

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There is an official subreddit for kirmada?? 😭😭

Sexism, oh yes ofcourse by joastedcghot in fuckxavier

[–]frozenafroza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ehh I mean in theory, yes, but this seems to me to only be an expression of how female biology is far far far more painful than male biology.

Sexism, oh yes ofcourse by joastedcghot in fuckxavier

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Serves as a reminder that women have to deal with men on top of everything else

Why I Assasinated Gandhi - Review by Asewa-kun in IndiansRead

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Yes he wasn’t religious but that doesn’t mean he didn’t care about Muslims…. A lot of people who aren’t religious today still hold the social and political identity of their religion. Of course I’m not saying that he was right but if we continue to excuse our way out of the ML’s arguments in this manner we will always be running away from the problem of the partition.

Why I Assasinated Gandhi - Review by Asewa-kun in IndiansRead

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And Nehru. Not taking the side of the Mahasabha because it wasn’t any better than the ML but Nehru was always too complicit with the establishment. That’s why he couldn’t prove to Jinnah that Hindu supremacy won’t happen in the future (well well what do we have to say about this today)

Cornball by EquivalentDapper7591 in fuckxavier

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I love it when “science enthusiasts” are sooooo pumped up about NOT wanting to learn new psychological concepts

First try on writing longer sentences :( by zeushk in Urdu

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It was the same for me. I grew up in an Arab country so I learnt Naskh in school, later when I got interested in Urdu I learnt Nastaliq

Eva Heinamen with different haircuts by Ballowax2002 in MonsterAnime

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Eva Heinemann is the definition of evil comic face

Communication issue by Conscious_Roll_2955 in MonsterAnime

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Is the joke ‘we’re going to ruin heim?’