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In Topic: No Megaflood In Thailand This Year: Water Committee Chair

2012-04-26 13:13:27

View Posttrainman34014, on 2012-04-25 20:41:28, said:

Personally I don't think there will be bad floods this year because we just haven't had anything like the rain in the North that we had already had by this time last year.  Last year it started raining on March 1st and rained almost every other day in large volumes until October.  All that water ran South and became the top up for what had already accumulated there. This year it has barely rained at all yet.

In the final analysis nature will decide the issue and if there are no floods it will certainly not be due to the efforts of the current Government.  Of course if there are no floods we all know that they will be congratulating themselves for a magnificent job done !
That and the initial statement is very reassuring. I don't follow news much when I am in England and didn't realize that the very unusual rainfall  in the North.
It would seem that neither did the powers that be consider it a problem, or as was the rumour, had not the will to stop it or the power to lessen its severity.  
I think that we should be happy that the rains are likely to be less this year and that if not, that the government has the means and the will not to let the floods happen again to the same extent.
I got the impression that some people actually wanted Bangkok to be disrupted and that for those who camped in the capital before, it was considered divine intervention in support of their's and what they consider the government's main task.

In Topic: Thai-Language.Com

2012-04-26 10:24:50

View PostRichard W, on 2012-04-24 02:16:38, said:

I got the message too, even before I logged back in.  Did you notice the statement 'A ban has been issued on your IP address.'  I've left a message with the 'Board Administrator' and referred to this thread.

I wonder if the drawbridges have been raised because of another spam attack.  There have been two English language barrages of spam recently, and very recently someone was spamming the board in Thai, though only a few of the forums were affected.
Thank you for the reply I have just realized what it says, not knowing the significance of IP address and its relevance to spam attack I ignored it.  You were casting pearls before swine I am afraid. David's post showed me that Southampton had been blocked not just little me.

In Topic: Thai-Language.Com

2012-04-24 10:51:31

View PostDavidHouston, on 2012-04-24 06:17:28, said:

Friends,

For those of you who have received "banned" messages on T-L.com, please send me by PM your IP addresses so I can check out if they are on the chat board's "banned" list. You can find your IP  address by clicking on http://whatismyipaddress.com/ .  I will try to promptly remove your IP address area from the listing.

We are trying to reduce the waves of spam attacks we have been experiencing.  Thanks for your assistance.
Thanks everybody for that quick response, I am able to log in again now and hope that  anyone  else affected is soon.

In Topic: Thai-Language.Com

2012-04-24 01:42:58

View Postendure, on 2012-04-24 01:34:26, said:

I don't think it's confined to you. I just tried to enter the forum and was told that I'm banned too. Thing is I've never been a member Posted Image
That was a quick response thank you. I don't know  much about computers, perhaps it is a technicality, I feel a little better.

In Topic: How Did You Learn The Tone Rules For Reading?

2012-03-28 08:17:08

View PostRichard W, on 2012-03-28 06:16:39, said:

I read

Quote

ไม่มีคู่เทียบเสียงระหว่างเสียงสั้นและเสียงยาว
as:

"There are no contrasting pairs between the long sound and the short sound".

Actually, I have come across Thai claims that some indubitably closed syllables have long diphthongs and others have short diphthongs, but we only communicated in writing.  Northern Thai and Lao do have short diphthongs in closed syllables - the Lao spellings can be seen at http://en.wikipedia....iki/Lao_script.  However, the vowels are far more commonly long.

When transliterating Northern Thai, maitaikhu is normally used.  The rule used in books that if you can't right a mark above another you write it to the right, which I have also seen applied to tone marks in public signs.  When typeset, the maitaikhu normally ends up on the following consonant.
I did take a while to work out what คู่เทียบเสียงระหว่าง (pair alongside sound between sounds) meant I came to the conclusion that it meant that since both are long or short and said together there was no way of knowing whether they were long or short unlike สาระ for instance.
This book is standard Thai and says that  อ็ replaces อะ in เอะ แอะ  and เอาะ in words like น + เอาะ + ก  = น็อก
in fact it says that ล่อกแล่ก ว่อกแว่ก are also เอาะ  at least this gives อ่ a purpose.  
The conclusion has to be that this is something which I shall rapidly forget, as befits someone who is not in the language business, and just copy Thais in their pronunciation.

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