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Honestly, all the effort I've put in to learn the Thai script was entirely worth it if only so I could have such a full appreciation for just how atrocious Pat's handwriting is:

I can tell what most of those letters are supposed to be, but frankly it's impressive that anyone can read this lol. I say this as someone with both a deep love of Pat and as a person with atrocious handwriting of her own

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Thai consonants according to etymological pronunciation, for the benefit of learners trying to make heads or tails out of the abundance of confusing homophonous retroflexes in the orthography.

Notes:

Based on Wikipedia’s colour scheme:

green for ‘mid’ class

pink for ‘high’ class

blue for ‘low’ class

The colour of the letters themselves represent the modern Standard Thai reflex (in onset position); the legend for those appears in the ‘old vocal folds’ column.

Generally, when tonogenesis occurs, voiced consonants tend to entail low tones, and aspirated ones entail high tones. This explains why sonorants and etymologically voiced consonants are in the ‘low’ class, even though they have merged into the aspirate set some time in the 14th–16th century.

The fricatives are voiceless, as aspirated fricatives are generally very marked, and the phonological feature of [spread glottis] generally manifests in fricatives as simple voicelessness.

The generally obsolete letters indicating velar fricatives have both merged into the velar aspirate.

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Garden at Chiang Mai University June 2015

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Sak yant tattoo with lotus and traditional Thai script

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Ok so here's a thing I noticed. This is how the Thai script "usually" looks, right?

But one thing I noticed watching a lot of those food ASMR videos from Thailand (don't judge me) is that a lot of sans thai fonts ommit those circles

And like... Here's the thing. To me, it almost looks like Latin? And like I'm not saying this as a bad thing or anything, in fact I think it's kinda neat!

The Thai script works very differently from Latin, and it developed about as far away from Rome and the rest of Europe as possible, and yet it still looks superficially similar in a few common fonts.

That's all.

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