Richard W Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 (edited) Possibly not Thailand-related, but... Last night, I drove two Thai ladies to work as their normal transport had broken down. When I asked how they would get home, I was told (in Thai) or overheard (?) that the AA had already fixed it while I was picking them up. While navigating a road full of parked cars, I replied in Thai, but then realised that I wasn't sure how to write my reply in Thai. My reply was: เอ. ๆ ทำ ดี จริง ๆ [M]ee[M]ee [M]tham [M]dii [M]jing[M]jing 'The AA did well indeed.' Have I spelt it right? I can't help feeling that perhaps 'AA' (which started out as the abbreviation of 'Automobile Association') should be เอ. เอ. rather than เอ. ๆ Edited December 3, 2004 by Richard W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfessorFart Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 That does seem to be the Thai way of spelling the English 'A' There is a listing of Thai spellings of English Letters in one or other of the small learners dictionaries but I can't remember which. I'd have bunged in a 'Borisut' before the 'AA' as well just to highlight who I was talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the scouser Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hi Richard, I have no grammatical reasoning to back this up, but as a visceral instinct I would physically reduplicate the "a" as it's a proper noun. Scouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadish_sweetball Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hi Richard,I have no grammatical reasoning to back this up, but as a visceral instinct I would physically reduplicate the "a" as it's a proper noun. Scouse. I think that makes the most sense too. Intuitively, I would even consider skipping the stops. (There doesnt seem to be a clear rule governing stops in abbreviations - the people I have asked say you have to treat them on a case-by-case basis. They may have been ignorant of any existing rules though - does anybody else know perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDN Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hi Richard,I have no grammatical reasoning to back this up, but as a visceral instinct I would physically reduplicate the "a" as it's a proper noun. Scouse. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think that makes the most sense too. Intuitively, I would even consider skipping the stops. (There doesnt seem to be a clear rule governing stops in abbreviations - the people I have asked say you have to treat them on a case-by-case basis. They may have been ignorant of any existing rules though - does anybody else know perhaps? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In SE-ED's dictionary, the very first word is "A" and it's pronunciation shown in Thai is เอ, but no 'full stop'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard W Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hi Richard,I have no grammatical reasoning to back this up, but as a visceral instinct I would physically reduplicate the "a" as it's a proper noun. Scouse. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's certainly precedence for having to write it out in full because it's a proper noun. A Google search for เกาะพี found เกาะพี พี and เกาะ พีพี, but nothing like เกาะพี ๆ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard W Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 Intuitively, I would even consider skipping the stops. (There doesnt seem to be a clear rule governing stops in abbreviations - the people I have asked say you have to treat them on a case-by-case basis. They may have been ignorant of any existing rules though - does anybody else know perhaps? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In SE-ED's dictionary, the very first word is "A" and it's pronunciation shown in Thai is เอ, but no 'full stop'. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> On the other hand, in the Thai translation of the second edition of Kernighan & Ritchie's book on C, there are full stops after the initials of the authors, each of which is spelt out phonetically. The 'W' is spelt out in full, which always seems bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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