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== Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy ==

Hi Inre list links

As far as the megaliths are concerned I obtained information from these 2 sources for Angkor Wat.

Time Life Lost Civilizations series: Southeast Asia: A Past Regained (1995)
"Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World" edited by Chris Scarre 1999

I thought I added it to the page months ago but either I over looked it or it was removed since it doesn't appear to be there now. Scarre refered to it as an ancient site since it was mostly a primitive society at the time and most of the records were lost. Time Life also refered to it as a lost civilization. The five million ton figure comes from the time life book (it says it uses the same volume of stone as Kafre's pyramid) and the distance as well these are listed on the list of megalith page with these sources. I'll check the books again the next time I go to the library and perhaps propose it on the talk page of the site. The main reason Angkor Wat made the list is because of the large volume of stone used and that it was supposed to be moved in such a short time. This is also the reason Chris Scarre chose it for his list of Ancient Wonders. However I have found at least 2 or 3 alledged time frames for construction 30 to 50 years I think. One expert from one of the books said it would take 300 years to build today. Some of the megalithic statues were supposed to be over 15 feet tall but there weren't any exceptionaly large ones that I know of.

As for ] that was a suprise to me someone else put Angkor on the list all I did is link it up. I don't know what the source is I just gave it the benifit of the doubt. The ] actualy does include other sites from that period mostly in America but Borobudur is also from that time period or maybe a couple hundred years earlier off the top of my head. Some one from that site also rejected the link and refered to it as an uncited pseudoscience list but both Angkor Wat and Borobudur seem to be catagorized as Archaeoastronomy at the bottom of the pagees. It sounds like you may actualy know more about this one than me. :-)

If I find anything about either subject I'll bring it up when I look at the books again.
Good day
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Angkor Wat

Hi Henry, regarding you revert of the removal of the forced pixel count, what you should try is changing your preferences. Ie, click 'my preferences' then go to the 'files' tab - you can have pics as big as you want. However, if the article has a forced pixel count, this overrides all user preferences and for this reason the WP:MOS recommends against it. I don't see any compelling circumstances why this article is different.

Anyway, i have made the effort to discuss this on the talk page and would appreciate the favour returned. Also, you revert reverted a number of non-image changes, so please be a little more careful. Kind regards and happy editing. --Merbabu 09:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

It's not a question of my image preferences, it's a question of how the images are displayed to the vast majority of the site's users who aren't logged-in users. Henry 05:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

DSCH

Hi Henry, I won't bother adding the junk FAR template, but note that I have listed the Shostakovich article for FAR. Since you put in the hours, I think the article has slipped slightly. Cheers, Eusebeus 15:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

What is the "nh" in the transcription of Lao names?

Hi,

Could you please tell me what this digraph means in certain Lao names, such as Bouasone Bouphavanh and Bounnhang Vorachith? I searched the Internet this afternoon for some two hours but I didn't find any definite answer. :(

I have three or four ideas (but I'm not sure any of them is correct):

  • perhaps the palatal nasal ɲ, normally transcribed as ny or gn?
  • perhaps it's a normal sound, the "h" is there for some orthographic convention, and it was simply transcribed very literally?
  • perhaps it's a tone-modifying "h" (but why at the end of the syllable in the first name)?
  • or perhaps there is an aspirated version of in Lao?!

In fact, the "th" at the end of Vorachith is also dubious for me, since in Thai (which is quite similar) it's not possible to have a sound at the end of a word – or is it a very literal transcription, without respect to the pronounced form?

Thanks a lot if you can help me! (I need it for the Hungarian transcription of state leaders of the world, as we are supposed to transcribe all names from languages with non-Latin alphabets.) Adam78 18:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

This has been a bit tricky, because I haven't been able to find these names written in Lao script (in short supply on the Internet). However I have found a reference to Bounyang Vorachith, which strongly implies to me that it is indeed the palatal nasal. The palatal nasal is certainly something that might plausibly appear in that position in a Lao name.
The th indicates that the letter is one normally pronounced as an aspirated t; I think that as you say it's not aspirated at the end of a word, but that th is used in spelling-based systems regardless of position.
Hope that's some help! Henry 08:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


Thanks a lot indeed! I'm more or less assured about the Laotian names now. Yet, I don't quite understand to what extent Thai (and Laotian) transcription is actually spelling-based, e.g. Yasothon Province is written this way, although it would be written "Yasothor", if it were entirely spelling-based, wouldn't it? Adam78 19:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Transcription in both languages is certainly confusing - for each there are multiple competing systems, and many ad hoc transcriptions that follow no system at all. I think that most systems in both languages do distinguish between representation of initial and final consonants, at least for letters (like "r") that have very different values; they might not pay attention to more subtle differences such as aspirated/non-aspirated consonants, though. Henry 08:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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A new Oxbridge user box

Henry Flower...I am currently in the process of writing a user box for all of the colleges that are part of Oxbridge. This template is meant to replace your current college template. Please take a look at the work in progress and comment on it. My main concerns are college abbreviations and color choice. I am using scarf colors for the colleges. Thank you. - LA @ 17:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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Education in Thailand

Check out Education in Thailand, to which I added the subsection Thaification and images cropped from the back of a series 14/15 100-baht bill .

  • The article is fairly new, and I'm not happy with it. For one, I don't see any mention of the military-style uniforms worn by government teachers (but not contract farangs.) MY teachers wore military-style uniforms with simulated military rank when I went to Gordon Military College (Barnesville GA), but it was a military college back then. Are uniformed teachers so common in Asia that it is not worthy of mention?
  • Another item I don't see is the inclusion of Isan culture, at least since the 1990s, in schools from primary level on up to Fine Arts colleges.
  • Another gaping void is any mention of the boarding schools for poor teens funded by Phra O. I know they exist only because there's one nearby.
  • Yet another, the Khun Poom fund for autistic and other learning-disabled children. I only know about because my dyslexic grandson and a neighbor's beautiful but extremely shy granddaughter received grants from it (he quit school and gave his back because reading gives him real headaches, and he was too far behind; she's going on to college). Speaking of girls: If you go to an Internet cafe that has no games on its computers, you'll find it filled with girls busily at work, usually in twos and threes. If you go to one with games, you're first of all struck by the stink, and of course it's packed with boys all playing games. I took them off of mine! Pawyilee (talk) 14:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on my Talk page. The article is fairly new, and needs to "grow up". When it does, the over-long section on English language instruction should be be to an article in its own write. Meanwhile, Patiwat has objected to the subsection on "Thaification" as being a "point of view" NOT supported by a scholarly article. He also thinks the "fair use rationale" for the images cropped from a 100 Baht note isn't adequate, but he hasn't deleted anything yet. Pawyilee (talk) 11:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thaification

Copied here from Thaification's talk page by Pawyilee (talk) 10:49, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Title of the article

Was the term "Thaification" ever used in any of the two references to this article? It sounds like an artificial term to me, and I'd like to confirm that it is in common use in serious articles or book on Thai culture. Patiwat (talk) 03:36, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Education in Thailand

You will see that I have copied the comments to date to the Education in Thailand discussion page, to encourage contributions and improvements from more editors. The article needs more balance. Kudpung (talk) 20:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

A rather belated congratulations!

The WikiProject Film Award
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Awarded 03:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


EDUCATION in THAILAND

If you are still taking an interest in this article, maybe you could help combat some of the spam and drivel that is has been subjected to mid May through mid June '08Kudpung (talk) 21:58, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Angkor Wat

Hey Henry, I checked the script and it looked like it was just question marks, i.e. an editor had put them in as a stopgap until someone inserted the correct Khmer characters in. However, you may well be right re our computers not reading the script, but I don't know any way to check! To the average English user it renders as a heap of question marks though, and doesn't look like it should be there. Cheers, Freestyle-69 (talk) 22:34, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy

Hi Inre list links

As far as the megaliths are concerned I obtained information from these 2 sources for Angkor Wat.

Time Life Lost Civilizations series: Southeast Asia: A Past Regained (1995) "Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World" edited by Chris Scarre 1999

I thought I added it to the page months ago but either I over looked it or it was removed since it doesn't appear to be there now. Scarre refered to it as an ancient site since it was mostly a primitive society at the time and most of the records were lost. Time Life also refered to it as a lost civilization. The five million ton figure comes from the time life book (it says it uses the same volume of stone as Kafre's pyramid) and the distance as well these are listed on the list of megalith page with these sources. I'll check the books again the next time I go to the library and perhaps propose it on the talk page of the site. The main reason Angkor Wat made the list is because of the large volume of stone used and that it was supposed to be moved in such a short time. This is also the reason Chris Scarre chose it for his list of Ancient Wonders. However I have found at least 2 or 3 alledged time frames for construction 30 to 50 years I think. One expert from one of the books said it would take 300 years to build today. Some of the megalithic statues were supposed to be over 15 feet tall but there weren't any exceptionaly large ones that I know of.

As for Archaeoastronomy that was a suprise to me someone else put Angkor on the list all I did is link it up. I don't know what the source is I just gave it the benifit of the doubt. The List_of_archaeoastronomical_sites_sorted_by_country actualy does include other sites from that period mostly in America but Borobudur is also from that time period or maybe a couple hundred years earlier off the top of my head. Some one from that site also rejected the link and refered to it as an uncited pseudoscience list but both Angkor Wat and Borobudur seem to be catagorized as Archaeoastronomy at the bottom of the pagees. It sounds like you may actualy know more about this one than me. :-)

If I find anything about either subject I'll bring it up when I look at the books again. Good day Zacherystaylor (talk) 06:44, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

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