User talk:Zekkelley

Thai diacritic
What does this Thai diacritic mean? "găo" Does it represent the low tone? Badagnani 19:45, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it rising - low would be the one found in "gèe" Zekkelley 05:45, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Why don't you use aigu accent, then (á)? That's the one used for rising tone in Chinese pinyin. Badagnani 05:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm not very familiar with Chinese but, from experience hearing Chinese people speak Thai, the tones are apparently different; the Chinese pronunciation of Thai sounds very strange... Having no formal method of marking Thai tones though, I don't have any objections if you'd want to change the diacritics to match Chinese pinyin but I do think that could possibly lead to people familiar with Chinese confusing the two. Zekkelley 14:20, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I've studied Thai but I've forgotten what the normal diacritics are for the 5 tones (high, middle, low, falling, rising). Probably we should use these, but I can't find a listing of what the marks are at the Thai language article. Badagnani 21:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If you're talking about using อ่, อ้, อ๊, and อ๋ then I think that's a bad idea as those follow rules based on the accompanying Thai letters. There's no official method for marking tones but my dictionary uses the diacritics that I originally used so I find them to be most agreeable. Zekkelley 09:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

No, I didn't mean the tone marks used with Thai letters. Why don't we find which diacritics are most commonly used to represent the 5 tones with Roman letters, then standardize that in the Thai language article, and throughout Wikipedia? Badagnani 09:27, 6 April 2006 (UTC)