Talk:Tinglish

message: Are there any features of Tinglish in particular that are not due to linguistic interference? Markalexander100 07:09, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks- I've merged the two articles here. Mark1 05:54, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: in part 

message: How about "english" words that have been adopted into Thai/are used by Thai's speaking english?
The one I can think of right now is "hiso" (as in "That car/sweater/octapus is so hiso!"). It's from the words "high society" but really just means "cool" or whatever.Tomorrowboy 07:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: new words

message: The article states that words like 'snore' and 'sleep' are pronounced as 'sanore' and 'saleep' which is true, but it should be considered interference from the Thai language as consonant clusters such as this do not exist, and where written, it is understood in Thai that a short a is implied.  For example สนาม is pronounced as sanaːm and not as snaːm, which is most likely the reason why Thai people would say 'sanail' as opposed to 'snail'. Nintala (talk) 04:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: More Thai Interference

message: I, anonymous user, just added that after being driven nuts by my Thai girlfriend and her friends' pronunciation of that word, despite being confused and trying to reinforce some closer pronunciation over and over with all of them.  I read this article because I was curious about the subject in general but this transformation violates a few of the stated rules.  So I added it, it's my own original research, as yet unpublished.  I also have a PhD (not related), does this count?  Why not?  I hear it consistently on the off chance that this word comes up among a group of like 18 people from Thailand   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.178.97.221 (talk) 00:15, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: that bit about ''blood'' pronounced ''brush'' I just added

message: Is this soup? (means "are you drinking apple cider?");
This can't be right, Thailand doesn't even have apple cider (apples don't grow locally).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.89.168.181 (talk) 18:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Soup

message: In Thai, between two consonats it's automatically added a short "a" (ah) to create a syllable. The only consonants that can blend together are pr, pl, gr, gl, kr and kl. All the other groups of consonants, especially the one starting with "s", will have a short "a" added in between:
should probably be worded like this:
 In Thai, consonants generally cannot be blended together (exceptions to this rule are pr, pl, gr, gl, kr and kl.) A short "a" (ah) sound is automatically added between any other two consonants.
216.144.26.242 (talk) 18:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  this needs to be reworded. 

message: As stated above, the problem has been uncorrected for over three years now. How can one even be sure that Tinglish is a real phenomenon and not a hoax? If the phenomenon described here is real, it should be possible to find references for its existence and its antecedents or causes. Proposal for deletion will follow unless corrected. TippTopp (talk) 13:38, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entry listed as "original research" due to complete lack of substantiation 

message: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1002685/obec-orders-english-class-hours-boost
The Thai Government has increased the number of English language class hours in schools.  This announcement is dated today (see time stamp below) in the Bangkok Post.  English is the Lingua Franca of ASEAN - The Association of South East Asian Nations.  Thailand, as a member state, needs more English speakers; that is, speakers of English and not Thaiglish.
This article is amusing to foreigners who live here in Bangkok.  Of course, Wikipedia is not meant to be an amusement and requires solemn references to epenthesis and consonant mutation and so on in street Thai.
I offer only observations.  Many Educated Thais, who form a small but significant minority, have been to English-speaking schools.  These are the people you will meet at international conferences.  They speak Thai well too.
Ordinary Thais do not speak Thai well.  They tend towards Thai-Lao dialect which confuses / r / and / l / sounds (present in writing) or omits / r / altogether.  One self-indulgent illustration: if I go out onto the street and ask a taxi driver, in Thai, to take me to RAMA III ROAD round the corner / pra ram sam / [tones omitted] he may repeat the destination back to me as / paam saam / which sounds close to the Italian cheese Parmesan.
As for English and other language words in Thai, the number has increased since the earliest dates on this talk page.  One last illustration: Pizza Hat (not Hut) built a leaning tower of round, flat breads and called it The Leaning Tower of Pizza.  This is an unkind joke on people who know no different.  Thai phonology cannot distinguish between Pisa and Pizza.
Steve (talk) 10:16, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Language in Thailand 

message: Hello, i have looked for some university work on this subject, in order to have "better" sources for the article. I found that, what do you think ?
#http://etd.eprints.ums.ac.id/3862/1/A320040240.pdf : An Analysis of Thai-English Code Mixing Used in Kullastri and Khwanrean Thai Magazine (2007) YUSRO
#http://human.pn.psu.ac.th/ojs/index.php/eJHUSO/article/viewFile/73/84 Code-Mixing and Virtual Identity in the Bilingual Chat Rooms: Tinglish, Awareness and Attitudes  
#http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/11704Thai-English codeswitching: a Hawai case study  (Suraratdecha, Sumittra)
--Aghuk (talk) 09:02, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources 

message: I suggest this article to either be deleted, or completely rewritten. It's an absolute mess. It does not use linguistic methodology correctly and consistently, it is not written in neutral tone, it does not contribute anything of value at all. In fact, it is condescending, elitist, prescriptivist, and racist in tone. 
There is a grand total of one (1) reference, and that is just a sentence in a newspaper serving as an example of the word "Tinglish" being used. Not a single statement made in the article is referenced. That means it's either original research (and bad one at that) or just made-up nonsense. The article on English-influenced pidgins links here, but this is not a pidgin. 
Honestly, this article reads like it was written to make fun of native speakers of Thai learning and speaking English. So I suggest it be rewritten from the ground up, using sources like the ones linked by the user above me, or it should just be deleted. --Qxentio (talk) 13:51, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing your comment, I considered reducing the article to a one-paragraph stub, but looking at the current content it doesn't seem that bad, even if it's essentially unreferenced. The subject has been covered in academic sources, so it likely won't be deleted at AfD. I've identified the following. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:59, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion