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Baht vs. Bath. ( rajah hotel in bangkok)
I often see English-speaking people adding "h" into words when
it does not change the pronunciation at all, and it adds nothing... and it's certainly not to make it "correct spelling". For example, its so silly to see people writing "Khorat" (Why bother typing the extra letter?:. I even see people writing "Khatoey". For that matter, I don't see why we even have 2 t's in pattaya....Why not just Pataya. In article , Chris Blunt wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:07:26 +0700, Chanchao wrote: You might as well argue that the common transcription "Pattaya" is actually very wrong. (Should perhaps be "Pathaya", "Patthaya" or something else.) Note that this "Patthaya" actually appears on a few road-signs. There's no point in arguing over someone's choice of transcribing a word, because it's a mess anyway. And if Thais apparently don't care about writing Pattaya on the first sign and Pathaya on the next, then why should we. Last time I was in Jomtien, I saw a couple of signs where it was spelt "Chomtien". First time I'd noticed it spelt that way. |
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Baht vs. Bath. ( rajah hotel in bangkok)
come to that....they should spell the river as jow praya ....not
chowpraya....never seen it that way though... "Chris Blunt" wrote in message ... On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:07:26 +0700, Chanchao wrote: You might as well argue that the common transcription "Pattaya" is actually very wrong. (Should perhaps be "Pathaya", "Patthaya" or something else.) Note that this "Patthaya" actually appears on a few road-signs. There's no point in arguing over someone's choice of transcribing a word, because it's a mess anyway. And if Thais apparently don't care about writing Pattaya on the first sign and Pathaya on the next, then why should we. Last time I was in Jomtien, I saw a couple of signs where it was spelt "Chomtien". First time I'd noticed it spelt that way. |
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Baht vs. Bath. ( rajah hotel in bangkok)
Chanchao wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:54:36 +0500, "mush97" wrote some stuff about " rajah hotel in bangkok", to which I would like to add the following: 800 baths? 400 baths? You mean "baht"? Allow me to vent a little: EVERYONE is guilty of hideous inconsistancies when transcribing Thai into English (Latin) characters. "Bath" is no better or worse than other commonly accepted (mis)spellings. You can even argue that "Bath" is pretty consistent because Th-tahaan is usually transcribed as 'th'. That it appears here at the end of a word you may not make this any different in the opinion of the transcriber; fair call. Also note that there is no sight of any 'h' or anything else in between the A and T sound in the Thai word Baht. What it does there, or who put it there, noone knows?? R's also have a way of popping into words for no apparent reason. So why not "Bart" or "Bhat" or "Baat". You might as well argue that the common transcription "Pattaya" is actually very wrong. (Should perhaps be "Pathaya", "Patthaya" or something else.) Note that this "Patthaya" actually appears on a few road-signs. Actually with the "implied" vowel it should probably be something like "Pat-Ya". There's no point in arguing over someone's choice of transcribing a word, because it's a mess anyway. And if Thais apparently don't care about writing Pattaya on the first sign and Pathaya on the next, then why should we. I drive past signs saying "Lampoon" "Lamphun" "Lumphun" "Lampun" every single day and they all refer to the same place. So who cares about bath, baat, baht? Thais obviously don't. If the reader understood what was being said, then the transliteration was good enough. |
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