TAC 2016 Koko — Italiano, Dansk

[vijayjohn]

Lo scritto tailandese doe

It's me bringing Italian into English

I've literally never seen anyone but you use the word doe this way.

[Koko]

Well, it's a fairly common way to write it as in "Dat [ting] doe" (ie, that [thing] though)

Hasn't mōdgethanc used it before?

[OldBoring]

Koko, how do I put it… it's not the first time you write things that are indecipherable to me.

[Koko]

Koko, how do I put it… it's not the first time you write things that are indecipherable to me.

Good to know I have my own English

[vijayjohn]

Hasn't mōdgethanc used it before?

No, he uses tho.

[OldBoring]

doe

http://youtu.be/ps52qEFiLbg

[Koko]

Literally lol'd!

[vijayjohn]

Damn, that sure does bring back memories. Too bad it's not the whole song.

[Koko]

Damn, that sure does bring back memories. Too bad it's not the whole song.

How long ago since you last saw it? We watch like, at least twice a year (own it on VHS).

[vijayjohn]

I haven't seen that since like elementary school probably.

[OldBoring]

Damn, that sure does bring back memories. Too bad it's not the whole song.

Edited and fixed.

[vijayjohn]

Thanks!

EDIT: Listening to the whole thing again reminds me how hard it always was for me to do that whole thing where they sing the notes to the tune in the middle (and towards the end). It still is!

[Koko]

Yes!! I said a sentence a couple hours ago in Thai with perfect tone and everything! (maybe not final particle but…)

เขาแมวเล็กไหม
Isn't she a small cat?

Anyways, it came out super smooth

Random Complaint: Why is the Thai font so stupidly tiny?!!

[kevin]

http://youtu.be/ps52qEFiLbg

Never realised that English would pronounce it [doʊ] and [ɹɛɪ]... That feels simply wrong.

[OldBoring]

Well… how else would you have expected them to pronounce?
In China everything imported from the West is imported through English, so they are pronounced with the Chinese approximation of English pronunciation [toʊ̯] and [ɻu̯eɪ̯] in the North, [leɪ̯] in the South.

[kevin]

Well… how else would you have expected them to pronounce?

Well, I had never thought about it. And it seems that was the right thing to do.

[vijayjohn]

Yes!! I said a sentence a couple hours ago in Thai with perfect tone and everything! (maybe not final particle but…)

เขาแมวเล็กไหม
Isn't she a small cat?

You don't have to have a final particle there as long as you're using an informal register there, but isn't it supposed to be เขาเป็นแมวเล็กไหม? (Without the question mark, of course).

Random Complaint: Why is the Thai font so stupidly tiny?!!

'Cause programmers are pretty Western-centric, I guess. This is also why if you ever take a look at Urdu in the Hindi/Urdu forum, you'll notice that's typically written in large font here on UniLang, too.

[Koko]

I thought that Thai worked like other Asian languages where the copula could be deleted It lied to me for being Asian!!

[vijayjohn]

Well, I could always be wrong, so maybe it's me who's "lying"! We should probably ask either a native speaker or someone like ling who knows Thai way better than I do.

[Koko]

I haven't seen ling on for a while though

EDIT: Apparently he was last on on the first, though, so who knows?