Re: pa.tipatti

Hi, Karaoke:
Thank you very much for telling me about the interesting story of
your King, whom every Thai respects, commenting on the Thai language.
A langauge has its own life, so, it is not easy to try to retain
all the so-called linguistic traditions.

When you type the pronunciation of "karaoke" as "karaoke!", your
typing indicates that at the word final position, there is
a so-called glottal stop, which is a very natural/slight sensation
of the stop of air flow at your throat.  If it is the case,
these newer loanwords are pronounced in the same manner
as the following traditional(Indic) words are pronounded:
"sati!", "samaadhi!", and "pitu!" (father). So, the younger
generation is not creating a new phonological device.
However, they may think that saying such a word as
"karaoke" as "karaoke!" is far more 'cool' than saying it more
natural/Thai way: namely, "karaok".  tadao