Re: pa.tipatti

Hi, Khun Amara:
(i) Thank you for Betty's e-mail address.
(ii) Yes, Alan was a brilliant guy. (if he have been
reborn as a deva, he should be able to observe us from
the deva-loka. Is it not true that some devas can see our
manussa-loka?)
(iii) It's very interesting that now Thai is deviating its
preference to mono-syllabicity. (Eventually,
the phonological/tonal nature of Thai may
change quite a lot.)
(iv) When you prononce such loanwords as "pikachu' or
'karaoke', do you place a "glottal stop' after the word
final vowel. For instance, when you pronounce,
'sati' (mindfulness), a glottal stop follows the vowel
/i/. You can feel the stop as a kind of choking
sensation in your throat (at the glottis). Do you have
the same kind of choking sensation (=prsense of a glottal
stop) when you prononunce the above Japanese words.
Or can you prolong the word final vowels as 'pikachuuuuuu' or
'karaokeeeee'? (If you can prolong these vowels,
then, there is no presence of the glottal stop at the
word final position. And such a pronounciation is
totally a kind of new phonological phenomenon in Thai
(as far as I can see).
tadao