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language education update 

I have now cunningly isolated nine distinct strains of Thai letter: the birdies, the horsies, the owls, the sneks, the wiggles, the houses, the hooks, and flags, and the et cetera. 🙃

If you thought any of the above categories provided any clue whatsoever to their letters' phonetic properties, friend, you thought wrong. ​The birdies, alone, are pronounced "j", "k", "n", "ph", and "th".

Except when they're not, like if they're at the end of a word or they're a Sanskrit loan or you forgot to pay your consonant fees.

language education update 

@zebratron2084

GAH!!! I new I lef someting out o te buget tis mont!!

language education update 

@zebratron2084 There are 3 Thai students in my Finnish class of 12, and I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that Thai is a motherfucker to learn for *exactly* the opposite reasons that Finnish is.

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