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We conclude that in order to work out whether a string of characters in Thai text represents an open or closed syllable, you have to know up front what the text actually says. This makes trying to determine how Thai … Continue reading →

I just used regexes and a big switch… case… statement. Sorry. Maybe next time.

The peculiar and rebarbative romanization Google Translate uses for Thai is ISO 11940, which is 86 Swiss Francs to you at the time of writing. I’m trying to work out something between that and the rather lossy RTGS, but my … Continue reading →

I’ve complained previously about Google’s romanization of Thai, which is hopeless and looks like this: M?w n??ng xy?? bn m? th?hi w and the RTGS transcription doesn’t mark tone. I can’t really experiment much more with someone else’s machine translation … Continue reading →

Lots of Indic scripts are abugidas, which mean that a “consonant” on its own means consonant + schwa (roughly), and otherwise you have consonants and vowels as usual. What comes as a surprise to lots of people used to the … Continue reading →

REVISION: If languages are ergative, like Basque and others I can’t remember right now, then they mark the subjects of transitive verbs, but not intransitive verbs. So “John opened the door and ran away” would require two “Johns”, one in … Continue reading →

Ah.

I may cheat and find a less rebarbative, browser-friendlier romanization of Thai than the one I’m getting from Google. It would help to be able to type rather than cut and paste.

C?h?n s???x s?xng m?? C?h?n s???x m?? s??m t?w C?h?n s???x s??? m?? C?h?n s???x m?? s?ib Japanese, Korean and Chinese tend not to have separate plural forms for nouns, but use classifiers instead, like “rasher” in “five rashers of … Continue reading →

There are, as well you know, two readings for that sentence. What does it look like in Thai? According to Google, like this: ??????????? chases ??? Maybe this gives us a clue about the training corpus. “Every cat loves some … Continue reading →