Hinglish


Hinglish

My friend Rakesh Raju speaks both English and Hindi. At one point when he was doing a lot of writing in English, he decided that the Roman vowels just took too long to write. So he started using the vowel diacritics from Devanagari together with the consonant symbols from the Roman alphabet. The result is a hybrid system with some of the advantages of both.


22 June 1998