Thai Tones....eureka Moment?

[kokesaat]

I'm always looking for shortcuts/easy ways to remember anything that has to do with Thai language. Learning high/middle consonant tone rules seemed easy enough, but I had problems remembering that low consonants with a dead short vowel were high tones and low consonants with a dead long vowel were falling tones. Then I had a eureka moment while working on a passage from Tong Daeng (ทองแดง), one of the King's dogs, that was describing the dog's posture (ท่าสงา) When I first looked at the word, I thought it might be ท่าส งา .....and then, light bulbs came on! It couldn't possibly be ท่าส, because IF it WAS ทาส, there wouldn't be a tone mark because the syllable would be a falling tone by virtue of it being a low consonant+long vowel+dead syllable end. While that may not make a lot of difference to anyone else, it is just another shortcut/way to remember Thai tones and decypher thai script.

On that note, it's been some time since I've seen anyone refer to the outstanding Thai Cheet Sheet v.12 by NguuMuu at http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/lofiversion/...php/t46552.html A ton of rules all crammed together on one page in an easy-to-read format.

[meadish_sweetball]

EDIT: It seems the first link is dead now, but further down in the thread is a .doc attachment by the same poster, containing the same information - I just tried to download it, and it works. Click on the link below instead.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...ost&id=2262

(I erased a few posts discussing the dead link as well as my previous one so as not to clutter up the thread too much. Thanks /Meadish )

[gampaan]

Got it now...Thanx.....

dave

[cervin]

EDIT: It seems the first link is dead now, but further down in the thread is a .doc attachment by the same poster, containing the same information - I just tried to download it, and it works. Click on the link below instead.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...ost&id=2262

(I erased a few posts discussing the dead link as well as my previous one so as not to clutter up the thread too much. Thanks /Meadish )

This looks really useful. Could someone please be so kind as to post it as a .pdf file? My U.S.-version of MS Word is not capable of displaying Thai font.

Thanks a bunch,

cervin