What Is The Correct Orthography

[wileycoyote]

A friend has asked,what is the correct Thai orthography for the word penguin.

Wiley Coyote

[JetsetBkk]

A friend has asked,what is the correct Thai orthography for the word penguin.

Wiley Coyote

"Orthography" ? Do you mean "spelling"?

เพนกวิน -- pá-nêk-win

http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/14482.html

[mangkorn]

That Thai spelling is correct, but as often happens with computerized programs, the phonetic guide is way off the mark. The word is pronounced "penguin."

(The program is mindlessly following a basic Thai construction rule for a word that it does not recognize, and in which case the rule does not apply. One should be wary of such Romanized pronunciation guides. Even the otherwise-excellent site thai-language.com suffers badly from the same type of flaw: proper dictionary entries must be compiled by capable human brains.)

Edited October 3, 2007 by mangkorn

[DavidHouston]

That Thai spelling is correct, but as often happens with computerized programs, the phonetic guide is way off the mark. The word is pronounced "penguin."

(The program is mindlessly following a basic Thai construction rule for a word that it does not recognize, and in which case the rule does not apply. One should be wary of such Romanized pronunciation guides. Even the otherwise-excellent site thai-language.com suffers badly from the same type of flaw: proper dictionary entries must be compiled by capable human brains.)

Althpough the latter dictionary does render "phaehnM gwinM". That seems pretty close to the English, no?

[mangkorn]

Right you are, in this case.

But there are hundreds of examples on other words that are simply wrong, because they are transcribed by some program.

Yet, I am and shall always be a huge fan of thai-language.com

[wileycoyote]

Thank You jetsetBKK.

Beieve it or not,an acquaintance wants it for tattoo and is concerned that the taattoist hasn't written "sweet & sour pork or something else .

May Thanks

Wiley Coyote

[JetsetBkk]

That Thai spelling is correct, but as often happens with computerized programs, the phonetic guide is way off the mark. The word is pronounced "penguin."

(The program is mindlessly following a basic Thai construction rule for a word that it does not recognize, and in which case the rule does not apply. One should be wary of such Romanized pronunciation guides. Even the otherwise-excellent site thai-language.com suffers badly from the same type of flaw: proper dictionary entries must be compiled by capable human brains.)

Althpough the latter dictionary does render "phaehnM gwinM". That seems pretty close to the English, no?

Yes, I should've checked the other site ( http://thai-language.com/id/136437 ) when I thought the pronunciation looked wrong. The g/f has just confirmed it's pronounced the same as in English.

Does anyone know if Mike at Thai2English is still looking after the site? I've tried a couple of times to submit corrections using the link at the bottom of the page, but it gives a "404 Not found" error.

[gampaan]

Thank You jetsetBKK.

Beieve it or not,an acquaintance wants it for tattoo and is concerned that the taattoist hasn't written "sweet & sour pork or something else .

May Thanks

Wiley Coyote

Good call ...Is he a Batman fan ??