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Originally Posted by Asper
My dictionary has 650 pages for the English-Thai and 350 for Thai-English.
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I don't envy ELF learners. Although Thai is a tonal language, how can anyone argue that English is not? There are endless combinations of sound stresses that can change the meaning of a sentence (or word!) in English - so English IS a tonal language, but the rules for using tones are ridiculously complex.
And I'd like to suggest that though the Thai dictionary may be shorter, this does not mean that Thais experience anything less profoundly than a native English speaker. Anyone care to make the argument for linguistic determinism?