digbeth Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I've seen people refer to certain products by a strange name, like the บรีส detergent here Some people called it USA.... Have you seen case of any other where due to choice of font, Thai words appear English aast water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digbeth Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Lay's is nicely done though But most case where a Thai word try to appear English, it ended up horribly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daffy D Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Going the other way - English writing looking like Thai Available here for free:- http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/AW+Siam+English+not+Thai/ Download the .TTF file and place in your Fonts folder. Computer - System disk - Windows - Fonts. Have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiMaai Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I usually describe this sign as looking like "OHS" when directing people to the local branches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketsub Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Going the other way - English writing looking like Thai Thai not English!.jpg Available here for free:- http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/AW+Siam+English+not+Thai/ Download the .TTF file and place in your Fonts folder. Computer - System disk - Windows - Fonts. Have fun I downloaded it and hit 'open', but it is a .ttf file that opens in ACDSee Quick view, a program on my computer that I never use. Is there an easy way to get these fonts going in Notepad or Microsoft Word (.docx)? I don't want to spend all morning trying to figure it out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketsub Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Going the other way - English writing looking like Thai Thai not English!.jpg Available here for free:- http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/AW+Siam+English+not+Thai/ Download the .TTF file and place in your Fonts folder. Computer - System disk - Windows - Fonts. Have fun Ignore that request. I figured it out. I just had to open in Windows rather than the default ACDSee QuickView. thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I always thought Coke in Thai looked like TAn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aforek Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Do you really think they try to imitate Latin ( sorry, not English, these letters are common to many other languages ) letters ? Thai language allows many artistic interpretations, these ones are only some of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblecat Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Do you really think they try to imitate Latin ( sorry, not English, these letters are common to many other languages ) letters ? Thai language allows many artistic interpretations, these ones are only some of them No, I don't think that's what people are saying. They're just pointing out examples when Thai script could be mistaken by the reader for Roman / Latin script- especially for people who grew up speaking the Western language. It's a pretty simple concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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