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By: Die Konsonanten ก bis ง (die Velaren, กัณฐชะ) « akSara thai anwa Akson Thai อักษรไทย อ่านว่า อัก-สอน ไท

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By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:20:36 +0000

‘Ko heißt K vom Huhn. Das kho vom Ei ist in einem erschöpften Zustand’

When I asked my Thai teacher about เอ๋ย, she said that it didn’t really mean anything. That it was put in there to make the sentence flow better.

Not exactly like the Canadian ‘Ehhh?’ though…

Vocative, ablative, locative… time to dust off the ‘ole grammar in 2009.

Btw – Happy New Year everyone!

By: aksarathai

aksarathai — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:58:00 +0000

“First off, เอ๋ย was an unknown, so I started googling.

เอ๋ย eeuy [a sound expressing affection or politeness, used after a vocative by a man or woman]

So we need to think of it as expressing fondness and affection towards a chicken? Hmmm…”

Oooops … most recently I had a debate with my boss who thought that vocative is one of the 6 Latin cases. Pointing on the fact that Serbo-Croatian has an instrumental which is not an ablative … he admitted that the 5th case of Latin was locative but not vocative …

What has this to do with oei? Ko oei ko kai? Anyhow, the ko in this “memorizing” sentense is the only one which has a “vocative” but not a name. The kho has the name of khai, khuat, khwai, or khon, but not the sad and lonely ko oei (voca- but not locative).

K called K of egg? Sweet K named K of egg?

Btw… Thinking in German … easy to translate:

Ko heißt K vom Huhn. Das kho vom Ei ist in einem erschöpften Zustand …

aksarathais last blog post..Das leidige Thema: Transliteration, Transkription, Romanisierung und “Umschriften” – kann man das essen?

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By: cat

cat — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:18:19 +0000

Kaki, that’s a great find. Thanks! Which reminds me, I need to change the alphabet poem as you suggested… so that’s a double thanks from me :-)

By: Kaki

Kaki — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:13:35 +0000

Hi Cat, I’ve found that the Giant’s wife in question has an English name: she is Mandodari, the wife of Ravana (the aforementioned giant). Read all about it here http://www.urday.com/mandodari.html and have a nice day.