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**buIf6yoW** · 09-21-2012, 06:53 PM

I baught a few days ago a Thai music instrument and it was delivered with a small book about Taai music instruments.

As I'm not fluent in Thai, I scanned the pages in, ran them trough a OCR program, and let a Thai-English dictionary translate the booklet.

But at the page of "Foreword (translated)" a sentence was translated as "Don't imitate fahrangs and copy this document (translated)"

I showed the page to my wife, and she confirmed that the translation was conveying the meaning pretty well.

I was under the impression that copying and cracking was a Thai speciality and not a fahrang speciality.

I give here the original text for who want to translate it themselves.

What's your opinion?

09-21-2012, 06:53 PM	#8
buIf6yoW Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 481 Senior Member	"Don't imitate fahrangs and start copying..." I baught a few days ago a Thai music instrument and it was delivered with a small book about Taai music instruments. As I'm not fluent in Thai, I scanned the pages in, ran them trough a OCR program, and let a Thai-English dictionary translate the booklet. But at the page of "Foreword (translated)" a sentence was translated as "Don't imitate fahrangs and copy this document (translated)" I showed the page to my wife, and she confirmed that the translation was conveying the meaning pretty well. I was under the impression that copying and cracking was a Thai speciality and not a fahrang speciality. I give here the original text for who want to translate it themselves. What's your opinion?
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