Friday , May 9 , 2008
Thai is a Tonal language...
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Thai is a Tonal language it has five tones and according to Dr Woo, a Chinese linguist, there is no language with more than six tones. If they appear to have more it's because they mix two of the six basic tones.Dr Woo, more about him later, says the six basic tones are all found in Cantonese. Starting from there Dr Woo gives us something he calls "The Musical approach". He has put the si....
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Saturday , April 12 , 2008
If you are a Physicist like Ian and Felix
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You decide to study Nature seen as a laboratory, only looking at the very basis of matter. You come up with something we can call “The laws of the lab”.Now, you feel the world should be filled with articles made of plastic. You construct a factory complete with lab and machines for producing the goods. Now you use your “laws of the lab” and without too much problems you produce plastic.So far you h....
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Thursday , April 10 , 2008
Unfair attacks on Thai on this weblog
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Sometimes when I read Ian’s blogs I found expressions like “Thai people don’t know how to plan”. This is certainly not true of Thai middle class but it might have a bearing of truth on very poor people. However this would be similar anywhere, in any country.The 45 million Americans who do no have a health insurance can be accused of the same thing. They cannot afford a proper medical coverage. And th....
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