Language ramblings and stuffs
This shirt contains the Thailand alphabet. I lived in Thailand for around 4 years, but couldn’t read anything at all. What’s interesting is that the Wikipedia articled states that space is generally not used in writing because most words are monosyllabic. Never realized that also.
I sadly couldn’t speak Thai. Well, I probably can speak the two most important expressions for a man: “khong nam ti nai?” (where is the toilet?) and “pom rak kun” (I (male) love you). I’m of course using the never-before-heard Agronesian romanization.
Many Thailand sentences end with “kap” for male and “ka” for female. The ubiquitous example is “kapun kap” (thank you). I wonder whether it is the copula like the English to be…
We have this Thai language class in SIB, on the last year of my high school IIRC. The teacher taught that the Thai language has pitches. For example, the word “ma”, said with different pitches, means different things. One of them is “mother” and the other one is “dog”. I later learned that the Chinese language also has pitches.
Many language are unnecessarily difficult, and English is particularly famous for its hard to comprehend pronunciation. Well, I could luckily comprehend it because I once lived in Australia, but how about the others? The “u” in “pull” and “up” sounds different, for example.
The Indonesian language is also not without inconsistencies, but I think it would be nice if Bahasa Indonesia replaces English as an international language. How should we do that? Invading other nations is out of the question, we’ll lose anyway. Capturing the world’s attention by being a pioneer in mathematics, science, and technology is impossible, because we loathe them as a nation. The best route I could think of is to make lots of Indonesian animes and mangas.
Anyone up to the task?
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