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Hi Kinnock. Interesting. What incorrect words did they hear for 3.Notไม่, 4.burnไหม้, 5.questionไหม?
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I suspect that in normal colloquial Thai speech when uttering a sentence, the tones are less clear and easy to hear correctly, compared to when the individual words making up that sentence are spoken separately.
Just like if you listen to colloquial Thai speech it doesn't sound like Linguaphone Thai or Thai as spoken by a news reader where every word is spoken clearly. In colloquial speech, for ease of speaking, the words are slurred somewhat as they run into each other.
Anyhow, here's a short experiment.
As mentioned before, the Thai sentence, New wood doesn't burn does it? ไม้ใหม่ไม่ไหม้ไหม contains all five tones.
Attached are the 5 sound files of the five words in this sentence spoken by a native speaker:
1.ไม้ 1.wood_ไม้.mp3
2.ใหม่2.new_ใหม่.mp3
3.ไม่3.not _ไม่.mp3
4.ไหม้4.burn_ไหม้.mp3
5.ไหม5.question_word_ไหม.mp3
Posters can play the files on their computer for a native Thai speaker to listen to. Make sure the file name is hidden, which may also be displayed in any audio software used to play the file. Also, don't play them in the order 1-5 or they might guess the sentence after the first few. Use a random order eg 3,1,2,5,4. Ask the listener what word they hear and report back the results and how many they get right. Also added are 6.come มา, 7.dog หมา and 8.horse ม้า.6.come_มา.mp37.dog.หมา.mp38.horse_ม้า.mp3- 1
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I'm pretty sure Ebay always keeps a copy of the advert and notes any edits to prevent sharp practice like that.
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More details from 2015, when Thaivisa reported on the story:
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Camera Conspiracies. This guy has a weird but entertaining take on camera reviews and all things camera-related:
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On 5/15/2021 at 4:18 PM, jackdd said:
This somehow sounds funny for me, to me อาหารแมวเปียก sounds better. But upon looking it up on Google อาหารเปียกแมว seems to be the correct order or words and my feeling deceived me.
I would probably prefer to say อาหารแมวชนิด (or แบบ) เปียกในซอง this feels the most precise to me.
Just asked a native Thai speaker. Her translation (below) matched your preferred word order:
อาหารแมวแบบเปียก แบบซอง
So, take that for what it's worth.
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To add to ColeBOzbourne's post, they appear to use envelope ซอง or pouch เพาซ์ to distinguish from a can:
https://www.robinson.co.th/th/maria-kitten-food-chicken-and-salmon-in-gravy-x-12-pcs-mkp0546933
eg https://supertstore.com/products/product/19792
So you could try eg: อาหารเปียกแมวแบบซอง- 1
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Footage of him from the Thai news being confronted by the victims and their relatives outside the police station yesterday:
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I think it's something like:I'm tired out from work, so easily hot-headed.
Try not to be too familiar if you don't know me well enough.
I'm an easy, uncomplicated person which means I could easily give you a slap.
Beware, you don't want to meet me in real life. The online and real world are two different things. The shoes and mouth aren't as far apart as you might think.
If you make a mistake, own up to it. You're two-faced. Don't be so slutty to me. I hate bulls.hitters.
If you see this you should know I'm referring to you.
Behind the shop is a large 12/5 space. I really would like to invite you to take a look at it. -
Native Thai speakers will of course always pronounce the tones correctly, however they won't always know the correct name of the tone eg เสียงเอก ตรี สามัญ ฯลฯ.
Just like in English, native speakers won't always know the correct grammatical terms for the different parts of speech they use.- 1
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What browser are you using? May be some some kind of night time viewing mode has been selected..
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9 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:
However I recently got a new 'phone and I synced all my stuff from the old 'phone to that Gmail account so I could access it on my new 'phone
Is the new phone an Android one with a Google Account? Maybe the new phone logged in automatically when you turned it on.
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Footage of his arrest.
Bizarrely looks like he was flying a drone at the time. Maybe was using the live feed to monitor approaching police?- 1
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It was captured on camera by some of the car drivers:
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On 4/23/2021 at 4:22 AM, doctormann said:On 4/23/2021 at 4:05 AM, MadMac said:
Let's hope they don't get any crazy ideas that they would need nuclear power then.....imagine Somchai in a Russian plant and he cannot read the buttons ????
Absolutely! As an ex nuclear instrumentation design engineer I think that I can confirm that the 'mai bpen rai' Thai mind set would not sit easily with the rigorous safety standards required on a nuclear plant.
However, all these electric cars are not going to pluck their power out of thin air. It's not just a question of providing enough charging points, it's more fundamental than that. The power has to be generated somehow and I think that the current infrastructure is going to need a serious upgrade. It hardly seems to cope now!
Thailand actually has a small research reactor in Bangkok which has been running since the early 1960s.
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Clips of him from the Thai news being restrained at the gymnastics event by members of the public
and also kicking the car 2 years earlier.
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7 hours ago, klauskunkel said:
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She is identified with her full name (Thanyaras Siriphanuruk) by the Daily Mail UK without having been convicted yet. However, the plaintiff enjoys full anonymity (Australian man, Padbury man) by the same publication.
From the article, she has been found guilty and will be sentenced on May 20th.
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The actor playing Charles Sobhraj in the series portrayed the character in such a way that in almost every scene he sat there in his dark glasses overtly exuding menace and danger like some kind of Bond villain. Bizarrely the other characters seemed not to notice.
Anyone in real life coming within range of a character like that would have immediately sensed something odd and kept their distance. Hard to believe he was like that in real life as he sought to ensnare his victims by gaining their trust.- 2
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I had a friend who used to put boot polish on his bald spot. Claimed it was cheaper than a toupée.
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Well, whatever reason the World News section really was purged for, its banishment must make the Mods' life a lot easier with less time having to be spent policing the arguments and heated discussions there. ????
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8 hours ago, jossthaifarang said:I think it's time we all just carried on about our business, if you need to get tested to find out you have it then how bad is it really? Is it worth closing down the world?
As someone said..."A vaccine so safe you have to be forced to take it, against a virus so deadly, you have to get tested to know if you have it."
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58 minutes ago, vinny41 said:
Why the BBC there are many reports on the internet where the BBC has been accused of being bias in its reporting
Well, it was just a suggestion of a news website whose storys could be quoted and might allow for the TV News section to return.
As to its bias, I agree with you, but that wasn't really the point.
The Myth of the Thai Tones
in Thai Language
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Thanks. The reason I ask is that 3.not ไม่ and 4.burn ไหม้, although spelled differently, would sound the same (both short, falling tone) so could be confused with each other. That would explain the wrong order of 3.not ไม่ and 4.burn ไหม้.
Also, 5.ไหม (short, rising tone) has more than one meaning. In addition to question word, it can also mean silk, silkworm, fine and penalty. But if they didn't say any of those words, then I guess that rules that out.