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I hope they don't die out. I like the Thai numbers. They're more elegant than the Arabic ones.
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I hope they don't die out. I like the Thai numbers. They're more elegant than the Arabic ones.
Strangely enough they are on the top row with our numbers but not quite in the way that one would expect, I have to assume that they have been off-set slightly as the middle of the keyboard is for vowels only. Anyway, here is where they are:Originally Posted by bgood
2(๑)3(๒)4(๓)5(๔)8(๕)9(๖)0(๗)-(๘)=(๙)
I think so too and it would be a shame if they fell further out of everyday use.
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Then maybe a better question for you to ask would have been "will the Thai language die out" because the numbers are of course part of the language. Like LLL said, there are only 9 of them, take 10 minutes and learn them and problem solved.
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I read an article lately that suggested ( the stereotype) why Asians students were a head of their western counterparts in mathematics ...And the reason being was Asian languages simplistic numeric systems.
WTF?! How am I being racist? I'm asking an honest question, I couldn't give a flying whether they do or don't. They can invent a whole new extra-squiggly lot for all I care. I just think they'll eventually fall into obsolescence and wondered how long it would take.
Now where's my can of spray paint? I've just got time to replace a few evil squiggles with some honest, upstanding 2s and 5s before school.
I think it's you who needs to get a grip and stop jumping down people's throats for imagined slights (on somewhere that I'm sure you probably bitch about just as much as the next person).
I asked my wife about this when she got back. She said (re thai numerals) 'we don't really use them'. She is someone who would flat-down refuse to wear (what I regard as beautiful) thai silk outfits because of her preference for aping western styles and who works in a 100% thai-speaking office where all electronic communication is done in English - including personal emails. I would suggest that she could probably be numbered among what sociologists call the 'opinion formers'.
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Don't forget the Thai zero shift Q (๐).
Jesus Christ, another rant.
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Thanks Bet, I was in two minds about that one to be honest as I didn't want the OP to have a coronary at the sight of tenth number.
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Hold on fella; someone just called me racist for suggesting Thai numbers might have had their chips. I started this thread as the result of a passing speculation. I hardly expected to be roundedf on by the Thai culture police and I fail to see why I have been. That's all.
No worries mate.
You're right there, mate. A rant-a-day. The old chestnut, lets do-away with the Thai alphabet, or Thai Transliteration: what-a-load-of-shite, will be next.
OP, What about the phinthi, shift B ( ฺ ) on the Thai keyboard? It looks like a Thai decimal point.
I have to confess that I also was unware of the existence of Thai numbers, though I've wondered at times why that is.
Usage of Arabic numerals could hardly be for the benefit of the tourists; I see them everywhere, from price/kilo scrawled on a piece of cardboard advertising the price of fruit of a truck, to class lists issued to me where the students' names are in Thai script but their student numbers in Arabic numerals.
You're right - they're used for the benefit of encouraging feelings of superiority in 'thaier-than-thou' English teachers. Thais stopped using them years ago, but they know ajarns get a kick out of them
Thai's have not stopped using them, they are still widely used in schools and official documents.
This is what you get when you start a ridiculous thread.they're used for the benefit of encouraging feelings of superiority in 'thaier-than-thou' English teachers
I assumed it was not so much that the Arabic numerals were for the benefit of the tourists as that the Thai numerals on, say, price lists at national parks, were "for the benefit of the tourists" in that if they don't know how much the Thais are paying, they don't know how much they're getting ripped off...
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