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First non English post in Telugu

Tags: telugu

తెలుగు మాట్లడే వారు ఎవరైనా ఇక్కడ ఉన్నరా? మీరు Tildes ఎలా వాడాలి అనుకుంటున్నారు?

18 comments

  1. [5]
    ninja
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    English Translation : Are there any users who speak Telugu? How are you going to use Tildes?

    English Translation : Are there any users who speak Telugu? How are you going to use Tildes?

    10 votes
    1. [2]
      cfabbro
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      I don’t speak Telugu but I just wanted to comment on how beautiful your language’s writing is. That’s the thing that really struck me most in that last “let’s speak in foreign languages” thread...

      I don’t speak Telugu but I just wanted to comment on how beautiful your language’s writing is. That’s the thing that really struck me most in that last “let’s speak in foreign languages” thread too... just how many elegant and visually pleasing languages there are in the world. :)

      11 votes
      1. sid
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        One thing that always interested me is how the shapes of characters look before and after learning to read in that language. I remember, before I knew how to read Japanese, the hiragana ひらがな...

        One thing that always interested me is how the shapes of characters look before and after learning to read in that language. I remember, before I knew how to read Japanese, the hiragana ひらがな looked really curly and exotic to me. But now, I can't get that feeling back since I can read and I automatically parse them into words rather than looking at them like pictures. The closest I can get is looking at them upside down, but it's still not quite the same.

        3 votes
    2. [2]
      V2Blast
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      Not Telugu, but I do speak Tamil!

      Not Telugu, but I do speak Tamil!

      1 vote
      1. ninja
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        வரவேற்பு

        வரவேற்பு

  2. [4]
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    1. [2]
      xiretza
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      It's a proper noun, so it doesn't get translated.

      It's a proper noun, so it doesn't get translated.

      7 votes
      1. iiv
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        Tildes is a proper noun, but I'm pretty sure ~ isn't.

        Tildes is a proper noun, but I'm pretty sure ~ isn't.

        2 votes
    2. ninja
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      Telugu and other Indian languages (As far as I know) use these symbols !@#$%^&*()_+~`-=,./<>?;;"'[]{}| as is. There is no special noun for them.

      Telugu and other Indian languages (As far as I know) use these symbols !@#$%^&*()_+~`-=,./<>?;;"'[]{}| as is. There is no special noun for them.

      7 votes
  3. [6]
    crius
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    I wonder how your keyboard works. Do you have "quick switch" combination to change quickly from telugu to english? I'm asking because I'm seeing "tildes" written in english as it's a proper noun :)

    I wonder how your keyboard works. Do you have "quick switch" combination to change quickly from telugu to english? I'm asking because I'm seeing "tildes" written in english as it's a proper noun :)

    4 votes
    1. [4]
      Cirrus
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      Not OP, but on windows you can do win+space to switch between keyboards.

      Not OP, but on windows you can do win+space to switch between keyboards.

      3 votes
      1. [2]
        crius
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        :mindblown: As a developer with an italian keyboard.... this. change. everything. Thank you! :) Well, I use an eng layout on linux anyway but struggled to use some english keyboard symbol on...

        :mindblown:

        As a developer with an italian keyboard.... this. change. everything. Thank you! :)

        Well, I use an eng layout on linux anyway but struggled to use some english keyboard symbol on windows anyway (things like ` doesn't exists on the italian keyboard).

        2 votes
        1. merick
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          As someone with a similar problem, Win+Space is amazing. I have a USA keyboard, but english isn't my main language so a lot of symbols my language uses are not on the keyboard. If I use my...

          As someone with a similar problem, Win+Space is amazing. I have a USA keyboard, but english isn't my main language so a lot of symbols my language uses are not on the keyboard. If I use my language's layout, then I'm missing a bunch of other symbols because there aren't enough keys for all of them. Swapping between one and the other is great.

          2 votes
      2. pun-master-general
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        On a Mac, you can turn on a setting that allows you to use control+space and/or control+option+space to cycle through keyboards, too.

        On a Mac, you can turn on a setting that allows you to use control+space and/or control+option+space to cycle through keyboards, too.

        2 votes
    2. ninja
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      There are key boards made for Indian languages and it is bit tricky to learn the layout. Instead I use http://lekhini.org/ o type in Telugu. I just have to type Telugu words in English and it...

      There are key boards made for Indian languages and it is bit tricky to learn the layout. Instead I use http://lekhini.org/ o type in Telugu. I just have to type Telugu words in English and it converts it to Telugu script.

      But I use Telugu key board on my phone ( android as well as iOS )

      I would have written టిల్దస్ instead of Tildes. It is common practice to use English script intertwined with Indian languages.

      1 vote
  4. [4]
    unknown user
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    I also don't speak Telugu, but I wanted to share something about posts like this that always amazes me: the only thing stopping me from being able to read your post is the fact that I can't read...

    I also don't speak Telugu, but I wanted to share something about posts like this that always amazes me: the only thing stopping me from being able to read your post is the fact that I can't read Telugu. If you go back only 5 years, the font my phone is using to display the characters, Noto, didn't exist - so all I would see is empty boxes.

    3 votes
    1. [3]
      cfabbro
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      Isn’t Unicode wonderful? It even has support for Native American and Aboriginal languages like, my personal favorite, the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics... which is a fascinating, modern,...

      Isn’t Unicode wonderful?

      It even has support for Native American and Aboriginal languages like, my personal favorite, the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics... which is a fascinating, modern, constructed, written language designed to attempt to unify most Canadian aboriginal languages without their own system of writing. The shapes, their directions and accents dictate consonant-vowel pairs and pronunciation shifts, making it incredibly easy to apply it to almost any language and also easy to learn.

      E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics

      ᐃ = i, ᐊ = a, ᐅ = o, ᐅ = e
      ᐱ= pi, ᐸ = pa, ᐳ = po, ᐯ = pe
      ᑎ = ti, etc..
      ᑭ = ki, etc

      3 votes
      1. [2]
        brandt
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        Most, but not all, characters are represented in system fonts. If you ever need to read or write text in an obscure language, Google developed a font called Noto with the goal of representing...

        Most, but not all, characters are represented in system fonts. If you ever need to read or write text in an obscure language, Google developed a font called Noto with the goal of representing every character in Unicode.

        For example: Egyptian Hieroglyphs

        1 vote
        1. cfabbro
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          Thanks, definitely bookmarking that for potential use later. :)

          Thanks, definitely bookmarking that for potential use later. :)