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Where do they get this statistics. On my latest travel up north in the mountains everything on two feet is smoking cheap Burmese tobacco rolled in banana leaves. ASH is abbreviation for a..holes.

Introduce vaping to the nation and tell them that this is the latest achievement of modern technology that will save millions of lives and precious Thai Bahts.

7 minutes ago, SOTIRIOS said:

...a couple was innocently sightseeing and snapping souvenir photos...after all...they paid for a holiday...

 

...a Thai person (?) came up from the other side....and photographed up the innocent woman's skirt...!!!

 

...who was being inappropriate....

 

...multiple posts suggest that tourists are often being followed...for who knows what reason(s).....???

 

...perhaps to garner attention and accolades by posting unsuspecting 'wrongdoers' in the social media accounts.....???

 

...pathetic...

 

 

Yes it is pathetic and if the lady was fined 5000 for sitting in in the wrong place and the man was fined for taking a photo 5000 Baht as well, by this logic the Thai poster who took the photo and posted it in media should be fined 5000 as well. Me thinking too mut

8 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

utter rubbish. and i don't mean that offensively. there should be some understanding of cultural ignorance and i believe the bib pointed that out already. the fine and punishment must remain. absolutely i agree having it posted all over social media is wrong. that's the way the world is now IMO

Well, I could mention disproportionate punishments when it comes to supposedly wealthy foreigners or turning the country into a bath of cultural virtues disregarding the feeding hand etc. It's true that most of the newcomers unfortunately don't dig deep enough to know more about the country they are visiting. I does help but many just don't. They travel without insurance, renting motorbikes without driving licenses etc. I still believe that in a case as this one a warning and explanation would suffice. But ...ups, someone has to learn English to be able to do that. "YOU 10.000 NOW. YOU YOU!!!       

I don't think that it is relevant but just for the accuracy the dominant confession in Serbia is Christian Eastern Orthodoxy of the Serbian Orthodox Church. And I see this story as another nail in the coffin of Thai tourism. I am  almost sure that this couple won't ever come back to Thailand. Maybe it was their first day in Bangkok and first time in Asia. They did nothing to deserve such public crucifixion. But what can one expect in the country of submarines. 

3 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

Rabbis?

 

Wow, didn't realise it was that serious.

 

Probably Mel Brooks at it again.

 

 

:) thanks for pointing out my mistake ... funny though

26 minutes ago, InMyShadow said:

Did you bother to watch the vid? russian dude was in the wrong here.What lunatic anywhere runs across a zebra crossing WITHOUT even looking!!! and it appears to be at a set of lights with green light in both directions.. regardless of the rules that was an incredibility dumb move and payed for it with his life. I wouldn't try that in the west let alone here

Sorry, my eye site fails me here. I can't see any green or any other color of lights.

Words fail me at this brilliant idea. Here is the video of horiffic accident that happened yesterday on zebra crossing and left a Russian tourist dead. I guess you have to be alive to take pictures. 

Hi there. I had the same problem with Bookmark as I've just bought new notebook with window 10 -64. So I contacted the software company and asked them for help. The problem is not the windows 10 -64, but Microsoft Office 64 version. Here are the instructions that I've got from the software maker:

So I gave up the idea to use my comp. with Bookmark. I hope this helped.   Enjoy your Bookmarking

they worked undercover

You have to learn a lot my friend before you call anyone a moron. What you will get is a 2 year temporary permit from TCT. I suggest you do some reading before posting. Good luck

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I've got a message on my You Tube from unknown Dutch guy named Davie.

I think the message is genuine and the young man needs some advice or guidance and some facts about Thai education system and school fees as well. As I was thinking what to replay, in order to be objective as much as I can, I've got an idea to share this with you experienced expatriates and Thai Visa readers. I will send him a link to Thai Visa forum, so he can read all your suggestions and opinions. I hope Davie wont mind me doing so.

Here is his message and link to his You Tube profile: Davie's You Tube

Hello sir,

My name is Davie from Netherlands. I was on vacation in Thailand and met my new girlfriend Jang from Chaiyaphum. She is very special for me, and her nephew now 4 years old is not going to school, because they have no money.

I m setting up an organization for children, and I hope you can help me, because I need information about schools in Thailand. Like names, and the cost for 1 year school, the material like books and stuff, and about the uniform. I m going back in January, and want to visit some schools and places where children not going to school.

My girlfriend have enough problems to think about, and i try not to talk so much with her about my project, because she need to take care about her parents too.

I hope you can give me some valuable information, maybe you now some volunteers who works with children. So i can put it in my plan, and maybe work together. If i have collect enough money i go back to Thailand and sent some children to a school nearby. I want to have the first year about 3 children to school. And after 2 years maybe 10 or more.

Greets Davie

"If you do not control the classroom on the first day of class, you lose them for the rest of the year."

I agree with Somtamnication.

And how much respect you really earned you will see next year, when you meet your old students on Teacher's Day. If they come to pay respect, you did a great job.

Some knowledge of Thai language would be beneficial, too.

Most of all be your self, and do your job best you can. No matter what the circumastances are. Don't give up doing the best you can and Jai-Yen-Yen....be cool.

I think people (protesters) in the Suvarnabhumi airport probably do not realize that they have the party of a life time. The concert they are having there is the most expensive concert in the history of human kind. True they could have better singers. On the other hand they are lucky, not only that there is no entrance fee, they even got paid.

Thanks once again everyone for help and useful suggestions .

In case someone needs Doulous SIL font that work good with capital letters and characters for tone marks , just contact me.I did some changes, so now tone marks fit above capital letters perfectly.

Hi Richard W

If you mean Charis SIL and Doulos SIL fonts , they have only the basic vowels combined with tone marks above.

So there is still a problem with the extra vowel letters.They don''t have tone marks above. Or you had some other font in mind.

Thank you very much Rikker, I think I finally understand your explanation.

So if I want to write tone marks above characters, all I have to do is to use

Combining Diacritical Marks, that can be found in Unicode Block.

(hex. decimal values of marks that I use are 0300,0301,0302 and 030C ).

In my Microsoft Word I open symbol and make keyboard shortcuts for all four tone marks.

So I type them just the way as I would type tone marks in Thai writing.

First type the vowel and than tone mark with help of shortcuts that I made. So the tone marks appear above the vowel. Tone marks place great above Charis SIL and Doulous SIL, with other fonts this is not the case.

There is just one thing that doest work the way I imagined.

I had an intention to type in capital letters. The tone marks place perfectly above the Latin Capital characters, but not with capital Cyrillic and Latin Extended-B characters. Tone marks sink in to character as they are small characters.

So I gave up my intention to use capital letters. I will have to be satisfied with small letters instead.

Thanks again everyone for good suggestions and replays.

You guys helped me really a lot.

Thanks AyG for Doulos SIL fonts, they do look nice.

And as Rikker suggested I download Charis SIL fonts and Babel Map.

So I was quite busy last two days looking for the solution inspired by your suggestions.

They certainly widened my knowledge.

So I could get the basic vowels AEIOU with all 4 tone marks above: ÀÁÂÂ ÈÉÊĚ ÌÍÎÍ ÒÓÔǑ ÙÚÛǓ .( I hope they will show up in here).

But for extra vowels like:

เออะ >I use Ә

อึ >I use Ʉ

เอาะ >I use Ɔ

แอะ >I use Ɛ

They don't have the tone marks above.

So I think the only way to get all of them is by using some Font Editor program to make the missing characters and place them in to the character map positions for user fonts.

I hope all this characters will show on the forum correctly, if not….excuse me.

Any further suggestion more than welcome.

While this may sound off-topic;

You may think investing time into learning to read and now evidently type "karaoke thai" can help you initially. However, I would suggest learning to actually read thai characters as a far more time effective endeavor.

Here's a Breaking News Bulletin: NOTHING ANYWHERE in thailand is written in karaoke thai, nor can most thais make heads or tails out anything written in it AT ALL. It was developed as a study aid to facilitate foreigners to start speaking thai faster by bypassing the time it takes learning to read thai script ONLY.

Anyway, good luck, any time spent studying cannot be discounted as a complete waste of time if you're learning something.

Hi Tod-Daniels. Thank you for replying my post.

Nothing is off-topic, I am glad to get any respond.

I do speak, read and write quite some Thai now, true I am not an expert.

I agree with your opinion that is worth to learn reading and writing the language if a person lives in this country for a longer period.

I started with Karaoki Thai first, and as I continued to learn there was no other way but start with Thai alphabet, and I am happy I did it.

The reason I am looking for such fonts is that I am in a process of writing a text book for very beginners or travelers that do not have a need to make such an effort and study Thai alphabet. And the transcription is not for English speaking population.

So I had to adjust (romanization) transliteration for Slovenian language which is in a group of Slavic languages.

I believe I did a good job with transliteration and not to be modest about it, it is certainly more adequate for Slovenian language than the major two transliteration method standards made for English language ISO 11940 and The Royal Thai General System of Transcription.

Both of them have quite big imperfections, but that could be another topic.

And please forgive me if my initial topic was two short and unclear.

Thanks again for sharing opinion.

Hello everyone !

Can anyone help me in search of transliteration(transcription) fonts like those in the Benjawan Poomsan Becker's text boks.

I would be happy to get any hint.

Thanks in advance.

There's probably several ways of going about this, and no doubt some are more elegant than others.

Although I've thought about the same question myself I've never gotten around to having a good look into it.

However, you posting made me have a dig into MS-Word.

In MS-Word if you do an <insert><symbol> from the pulldown you can have a browse through a lot of characters which would seem, on the surface, to be one solution. A quick hunt finds several of these special characters.

Solution might depend on how much typing you want to do. Insoerting or cut/paste character by character is not a route for lengthy texts.

Hi Artamus. Thank you for reply. I did dig in to MS-Word before posting this tread.

I even wrote and partially translated a book. Using inserting symbols, not by copying or pasting, I use the keyboard shortcut. That can be assigned from the symbols window. True that is a hard work because besides writing the text including special characters for some vowels and consonants I had to write one more extra row above the text , just for the tone marks. For better illustration you can see my web site http://www.thailio.890m.com, true it is in Slovenian language, but you can find the example by clicking on "Lekcija 1".

So I was wondering if anyone on Thaivisa has fonts as the ones in Benjawan Poomsan's books. That would make my work a lot easier.

I also got an idea to make fonts by my self. Using some Font Editor. But font editor programs can get pretty expensive. I even downloaded such a program, (pirate) and got a virus that smashed my computer. So from now on I am a bit more careful.

Thank you again for your reply and forgive me if there are mistakes in my writing since I am not a native English speaker. Any further idea would be more than welcome.

Hello everyone !

Can anyone help me in search of transliteration(transcription) fonts like those in the Benjawan Poomsan Becker's text boks.

I would be happy to get any hint.

Thanks in advance.