OldChinaHam

Not to mention that these types need our protection as well.

There are only about 400 left.

Anyone who wishes to see a Wikipedia discussing the people I am referring to can find this anthropologically interesting Wikipedia article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia

and here for the Adamanese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese

I really do believe the OP has an important topic going here.

We should keep in mind that much of the differences between us are just color and fat distribution.

I know also that the OP knows this to be true.

Nice Topic, I think.

I will not post an image directly here because I actually do not find these differences to be funny once the image has been seen and understood.

The humor is in the imagination and in the misunderstanding of some readers.

Tolerance for people of all types is the best policy if we are to live and let live.

But I prefer my basketballs on the court, usually.

I would be very happy and feel privileged to share cake with any of the symmetrical women I have been discussing.

The men will need to bake their own cake without me.

And of course I made a foolish statement, as usual, above when I said that the little people with big things hanging off the back are an anomaly because they are not symmetrical.

One can still have a huge can and be symmetrical.

I am sure among these people there exists a few, maybe 5 percent, whose features are very symmetrical, and are therefor considered things of beauty. They still have huge buttocks, butt their cans are symmetrical cans, and their legs are symmetrical and everything about them is a thing of symmetrical beauty.

I further maintain that this 5 % would appear beautiful to any of us here on this worthy forum because we would be looking at symmetry to judge their beauty, and not thinking they have huge cans.

Live and let live

While we are still alive

Is good advice.

No matter how we like our cake

Nor eat it too

No one doesn't not just love this

Tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXmMMSo47s

The perception of symmetry as beauty extends beyond just human faces.

Even to the lack of beauty in a one armed paper hanger.

Also, I think what Morakot might be talking about is the finding that if we average together using computer techniques the different facial features from different races, then we come up with an image of a face which is extremely pleasing to everyone who grades it on a scale of beauty.

"apparently it's something to do with the averageness"

ii

I still say, the research points to symmetry as being what affects our perception of beauty most.

The average human is awful ugly.

But the ones who are uniquely beautiful are way out there on the old bell curve.

They don't pay big bucks to be beautiful unless one is symmetrical.

Beauty goes beyond racial lines, and it is finally only the symmetry that matters.

We love symmetry because it helps us judge which of us might be healthier, and better for procreating.

I don't know why the little people with the big buttocks are beautiful other than this is an anomaly brought on by living in places where food supply is unpredictable.

When I find the image of these people, I will post it.

Until then, please be patient.

Thank you.

Are you good without the surprise?

Smoking is revolting to those who smoke.

Some just do not know that they are actually revolted by their smoking.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

How true.

One realizes this most

When watching others

Work in

Sweatshops

You know,

It has been said,

Foreign languages other than Thai

Are not to be resorted to

And for good

Reason.

Hepatitis B?

What it that.

Helicobacter Pylori?

Another non issue.

Both much worse than the clap.

"Sedaris is a highly entertaining and talented essayist and short story writer."

Does not do much for This American Life though.

Thackeray on Tanqueray?

In a restaurant
At a spa
In a limo

Or any car
On the rooftop
Of a bar
Or anywhere at the
Night Bazar
Would I, should I, dare I?
Share a cake and glass of Spy?
With a human of a gender
Exactly the same as I?

In Taiwan, it is very strange,

In this case

People follow the non smoking rules.

Captain,

Thank you very much for the advice. What you say is true if my experience with learning Mandarin is any guide. You are correct also that the very work that it requires to produce one's own flashcards, on paper or on computer, is sometimes almost enough to completely memorize what one was trying to learn in the first place.

One last question if I may: If the new version of Anki will not support all characters, then what about other flashcard software? I have never really used computer file systems for flashcards, but just relied on paper and pen or pencil.

I usually adopt a jocular tone when learning Thai.

Also, having learned Mandarin, it is not the Thai tones which are difficult, it is remembering which words have which tones and when. Having learned another tonal language will not help you with this memory nightmare. You must just listen to the language as it is spoken, and spend about 4 or 5 years until you sound less like the foreigner that you are.

Posted 2011-07-06 14:14:44

Does anyone happen to know of a Thai flashcard database with about 5000 of the most frequently used words? Most frequently used word counts vary according to who is doing the counting. But a first year language course should cover about 3000 words, I had thought.

For language learning other than Thai, such flashcard databases are available without cost in many cases.

Does anyone here know where the Thai Anki files can be found, or have alternative suggestions?

"sadly I know of 3 women who have murdered their spouse."

Hope it is not getting too close for comfort, though

Are Anki or maybe Mnemosyne the best suited to learning Thai vocabulary, Thai characters, and Thai grammar constructions and sentence structure?

I realize that this topic is probably covered very often but still I am not sure if it has been covered completely. If one is using this flashcard software on a laptop or a desktop, what is the best approach?

In the past, I have found Mandarin learning flashcard databases which are very extensive and some quite massive. But Thai language flashcard resources do not seem to be anywhere near as complete, just as there are so many Japanese and Mandarin language textbooks, and far fewer language texts for Thai.

It seems kind of a shame for each Thai language learner to spend time duplicating someone else's flashcard work if there already exists a flashcard database containing what is needed.

After some time searching for these databases and suitable software, so far I have not found a great deal.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for finding these flashcard databases?