Hello Jos Flachs, On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:59:26 +0700 GMT your local time, which was Friday, November 22, 2002, 4:59:26 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Jos Flachs wrote: > Hello Dierk, > Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 12:54:23 AM, you wrote: DH>> Hello Jos! DH>> On Monday, November 18, 2002 at 10:37:00 AM you wrote: >>>>> in: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya >>>>> Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet >>>>> Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit >>> The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the >>> impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world >>> endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous >>> Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated >>> god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn. DH>> Now, that tells me why the National Geographic didn't give the DH>> "correct" name for the town in question in its current edition ... > No. Only the Guiness Book of Records does. well , as they write it in abc there will be potential variations around as Thai written in ENGLISH letters with its irregular spelling of its own shows some great (out of topic) confusing results.... Thani, Thanee etc etc I was told that peacecorps had to so with setting rules up in Thailand regarding spelling.. a great pity(g) as almost any other language would have been better to give a systematic result.. My son's name is RAAD. The way we gave it to them, long A. Idiots in BKK when making a passport made it into RAT. This distinctly sounds different(g).... and has a different meaning. Obviously Thais donot realise that RAT isnt a suitable name in European languages... as they themselves use NOO (ie mouse/rat ) as nickname... When translating various papers I always tell the translating office what certain words like names where to prevent identical disasters... By the way Burirom in the long name above is also name of a town providing many of the nice girls one encounters in Thailand... -- Best regards, tracer Using theBAT 1.60q mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] C.C.S. Associates FAX (USA): (208) 460-3753 pgp 6.5.3 : 0x909D9B10 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
