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29-01-2006, 22:57
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Your name in Thai (script)
While looking up the Thaiscript for 'name' the excellent dictionary at: http://www.thai-language.com/ threw up a whole bunch of Farang names and their phonetic (though not literal) translations. I cut'n'pasted 'n'PDF'd them for your amusement.
I usually have a notebook with me on tour to keep track of bars and girls, on the front of which I printed my name (in Western script) so that I could show it in those bars where the music is just too much... Next tour I'll have it printed in Thaiscript too....  Cheers, K. 
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30-01-2006, 00:23
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You forgot one
Simon = ไชมอน
Maybe LIL can give us the That translation for Sefton?
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30-01-2006, 01:49
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Don't know which one would be used as a name .  Quote:
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30-01-2006, 02:02
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Ah, there you'v made the obvious mistake. The above is not "what your name means in Thai" but "what's the closest you can get to constructing a sound like your name using Thai syllables". Hence Ken becomes "khaehn".
I think it was on a TV show with Stephen Fry recently where they took the closest phonetic Chinese equivalents of the panelists' names and translated that back into English with amusing results...
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30-01-2006, 02:06
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1. มัด mat[H] : verb to bind or tie 2. หมัด mat[L] : noun fist; punch or noun flea...
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30-01-2006, 03:20
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Thai society and culture, Thai language > Your name in Thai (script)
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30-01-2006, 17:21
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5555 I love it, 'float like a butterfly, punch like a flea' 
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25-03-2006, 00:28
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i have my name tattoed on my inner arm in thai. when bar girl asks my name i just show her arm.
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31-03-2006, 16:52
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Cool
 เอเดรียน it's pronounced as "aeh daeh rian" 
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31-03-2006, 18:10
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นิกเกะ (Nicke)
อี๊ด (Ead) นาตาลี (Nathalie)
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01-04-2006, 03:18
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กำือำพ Denver!
I have my kids names in Thai script as a tattoo on my arm. I also have butterfly in Thai tattoed somewhere else! 55555
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02-04-2006, 18:35
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Christopher คริสโตเฟอร์
Pee seuua thaawng ผีเสื้อ ทอง Pee seuua - butterfly Thaawng - gold, nearest in thai to blonde phohm see thaawng - blonde hair colour
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09-05-2006, 15:18
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But Jim - You know what the thai word "JIM" means ? E
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11-05-2006, 16:20
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What keyboard thing? BTW, what you wrote for Paul, doesn't say Paul. It says Yafeet. Hi, Yafeet!! Nice name! OK. I realized what you meant by keyboard thing. The answer is yes and no. But not as you thought. For example, the Thai letters(2 different Ys) which correspond to the English letter Y are both on the P key of an English letter keyboard. If you type English P, you will get a Thai Y. Capital P will give you the Y called "yoh ying"(which means "lady Y") and small case "p" will give "yoh yaak"(which means "giant Y"). They don't have capital letters in Thai. Small case "a" on English keyboard gets you one of the F letters in Thai. Capital A gets you a letter for which there is no equivalent in English. The other two Fs are at the / key and the > key. In other words, the "keyboard thing" does not do any translating for you! It doesn't translate English letters into Thai letters. It only lets you type Thai letters by their own keyboard arrangement of their letters. To write Paul, try typing small case z, small case v, and small case l. That basically is spelling Paul as P-O-L, but it is the O that sounds like au. As far I know, there is no equivalent for au in Thai. Then your name is prounounce same as pawn is in English, because in Thai if a word ends with an L, then it is pronounced as an N. There is no such thing as a word ending with a L sound in Thai. Thais(except if they have learned to be fluent in a Western language) are incapable of ending a word with an L sound.
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