Randomly listing some English abbreviations and their Hindi equivalents: Those commonly known ones are either translated from English or are not much use in a cryptic clue. I'm possibly ignorant about this one but other than a few like musical notations and days of the week, I can't think of many crossword-friendly standard abbreviations in Hindi. The Hindi crossword setter, as far as I can see, does not have access to a large enough pool of handy abbreviations. The English crossword setter has no such constraints with common nouns.Ĭryptic abbreviations are a necessary tool for the setter to encode short segments of the answer. When the clue's definition is masculine, the setter is restricted to masculine forms only in the wordplay.
To create a clue in which the surface as well as cryptic reading is grammatical, the Hindi crossword setter has an additional dimension to take care of – the gender agreement of verbs/adjectives with nouns. Synonyms of the same noun can have different genders: हवा ( hawa – air) is feminine but पवन ( pavan – air) is masculine. You live in an अच्छा घर ( achha ghar – good house) but drive an अच्छी गाड़ी ( achhi gaadi – good car). Gender specificity of nouns => trickier surface readingĮvery noun in Hindi has a gender verbs and adjectives change form according to this gender. Hindi clue for पिया (drank/sweetheart), anyone?
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One has to strain to think of Hindi words with more than one meaning, plus it is harder to craft smooth clue surfaces for them. Word meanings in Hindi are a lot more fixed. The most deceptive cryptic clues come from words that shift parts of speech. This more or less rules out the homophone clue type.Įnglish has a rich vocabulary of words with multiple meanings. Since the Devanagari script is phonetics-based, the case of words with the same pronunciation and different spellings does not arise.
This limits the wordplay options available to the setter. An English word of length 6 letters typically uses 2-3 characters in Hindi. The outcome of it all is that it takes far fewer characters to write a word in Hindi than in English. Vowels get latched on to consonants, consonant clusters are written as conjuncts. Also, Hindi words are spelled not with letters but with syllables. This has a condensing effect - sounds that take 2 or 3 letters to express in English (cha-, tha-, etc.) require only a single character in Hindi (च, थ, etc.). The Hindi character set has 48 symbols (13 vowels, 35 consonants) as opposed to 26 in English. Short word lengths => reduced letter arrangement options Let's look at why, and explore other types of wordplay that may work in Hindi.Ĭryptic wordplay essentially operates on: Most cryptic wordplay techniques as we know them in English are not easily plugged into Hindi. The scarcity of cryptic crosswords in Hindi is not surprising. Think for yourself: Topics that boil down to "Should I watch.", "Will I like." or "Change my view on." are not contributing anything to the community.Have you seen or heard of a Hindi cryptic crossword? I have not. Meta: Send a modmail instead of making public posts or comments about: other users of this subreddit, the rules or moderators, the community at large or other subreddits, downvotes/upvotes. Spoilers: Utilize the spoiler system for any and all spoilers relating to the most recently-aired episodes, as well as previews for upcoming episodes. Keep on topic: All submissions must be directly about the Star Trek franchise (the shows, movies, books etc.) Insulting or disparaging remarks about any human being is expressly not allowed. We are not a place for gossip, rumors, or manipulative or misleading content.īe nice: If a polite way cannot be found to phrase what it is you want to say, don't say anything at all.
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