Surely "naan" would have been a way better transliteration choice than "non", right?

walrus01 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I got a job at the local Uzbek restaurant, but before I could learn all the recipes and secret ingredients, I had to sign a naan disclosure agreement.

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roncesvalles 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1. English transliteration has its own cultural inertia. It's not just about what's most phonetically sensible (that too only for some particular English region: how an American phonetizes non would be different from how a Brit or Aussie would).

2. Don't assume the Uzbeks say this word the same way as the Indians do. It may very well sound closer to "non" in Uzbekistan.

	▲	Aspos an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Uzbeks do say "non".

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debo_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems like a non issue to me.

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shrx 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Probbly a deliberate choice to distinguish it from its Indian sibling?