Customization Services on ebay: Turn things into non-suicidal fonts

[Member jav…]

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Turn various things you use and buy to non-suicidal fonts using ebay
for example at www.ebay.co.uk / www.ebay.com

Do not use the suicidal k/K shaped letter and instead use non-suicidal
क/क shaped letter. Go on ebay internet site and in the search area
put ‘custom font’ or similar and a bunch of customization services for
things should get listed.

Examples of customization things:
Iron on transfer to use on any materials £2.99 excluding postage
Personalized name badge £1.99 excluding postage
Personalised T-shirt £9.99 excluding postage
Customized letter / number sign £9.95 each excluding postage
Custom font decals £2.65 excluding postage
Customized plastic letters and numbers £0.99 each excluding postage
Custom motor car etc sticकers £2.49 excluding postage
Custom internet site window, motor car sticकers £3.49 for 2

GET non-suicidal BBT or Rail Model fonts:
http://www.archive.org/details/BbtFont
http://code.google.com/p/railmodel/downloads/detail?name=RailModel.ttf&c

SEE philosophical reasons for not using suicidal k/K shaped letter:
http://Kalphabet.googlepages.com

[Member Joh…]

I'm amused that the 'non-suicidal' क looks like a gallows and noose.

[Member The…]

The totally visible holy river Ganges must be, in my non-occult opinion, way more deadly, what after being used as a bathroom (*), washing machine, and drinking water of about 200 million people, before coming out in the Bay of Bengal. At that point even an atheist would walk on it -- drowning may not be an option (although sufficating would, with a tip of the hat to Terry Pratchett).

(*) Those holy man, do they come out of the river to go to the bathroom, or do they let the water "flush all their sins away"?

[Member Nic…]

JavaScript, are you allowed to mingle with the other patients or locked securely in your own padded cell? I assume you aren't wearing a straitjacket as you are typing, unless you are holding a pointing device between your teeth.

[Member qua…]

I would prefer to make a serious reply to this post.

As I have noted, the "philosophical" reasons for this proposed change are inherently devoid of merit to anyone who isn't a Hindu; how much relevance they may have to most members of that faith is a question I am not competent to judge.

It's true that English with the unmodified Latin alphabet is widely used in India, and the OP's suggestion does not seem to have caught on there - but advocating something like this, however eccentric it may seem, at least has an intelligible basis in that context.

But what I would note is that many if not most commercial fonts have licensing restrictions that prohibit modifying them, even for your own use. Thus this could be an unwise move.

[Member Té…]

IIRC, @javascript claims to be from India, although I'm still convinced it's an AI system written in Lisp running on a forgotten Symbolics somewhere in Montana that's behind it all.

[Member alu…]

"I would prefer to make a serious reply to this post."

Don't make serious replies to spam

[Member jav…]

aluminum
It is not what you say it is.