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Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi
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Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi
#52Speak 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.
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?
Re: Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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").
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).