{"id":58439,"date":"2023-04-16T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58439"},"modified":"2023-04-17T05:31:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:31:01","slug":"thailish-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58439","title":{"rendered":"Thailish, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/endofwheelchair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/endofwheelchair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chiang mai, Thailand. On a trail in a botanical garden.<\/p>\n<p>The Thai on the sign says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">t\u0255ut sin sut rot\u00a0k\u02b0en<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u0e08\u0e38\u0e14\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e49\u0e19\u0e2a\u0e38\u0e14\u0e23\u0e16\u0e40\u0e02\u0e47\u0e19<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\"end of wheelchair [pathway]\"<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The \"pathway\" is omitted in the Thai sign, so the English version is the literal translation of the sign.<\/p>\n<p>More grammatically, the Chinese would say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">l\u00fany\u01d0 d\u00e0ol\u00f9 de j\u00ecnt\u00f3u<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u8f6e\u6905\u9053\u8def\u7684\u5c3d\u5934<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\"end of the wheelchair pathway\"<\/p>\n<p>or, more naturally:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">l\u00fany\u01d0 j\u00ecnzh\u01d0 qi\u00e1n x\u00edng<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u8f6e\u6905\u7981\u6b62\u524d\u884c<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\"wheelchairs are prohibited from proceeding forward\"<\/p>\n<p>Detailed explication of the Thai text from Bob Bauer:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/bauer-wheelchair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/bauer-wheelchair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"zh-TW\">\"<\/span><a title=\"Permanent link to Thailish\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=21658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D21658&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1681698580668000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ShUOTKNOlSYd91lajYUov\">Thailish<\/a>\" (10\/15\/15)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Mixed Thai, English, and Chinese sign\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D58404&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1681698580668000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3-Tk5MMWwC6nAXSGyyUcKp\">Mixed Thai, English, and Chinese sign<\/a>\" (4\/11\/23)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Thanks to Zihan Guo and Pattira Thaithosaeng]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-in-translation","category-multilingualism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58439"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58469,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58439\/revisions\/58469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}