Re: Perhaps all of India should adopt one script

mb wrote:

If I can't find an agreed-upon convention that deals with the matter,
how do I write them?

You don't.

What if I want to write to someone else who uses both words? Looking
them up in dictionaries, I can find one of the meanings only in a Tamil
dictionary and the other only in a Malayalam dictionary.

The purpose is not to reproduce someone's sounds but to communicate.

Very well; suppose I want to communicate using these words without
necessarily using their sounds. How do I do that?

.

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