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Who says you need to be able to speak Thai? I'm saying you should let people store their names in your system the same way they were given them at birth. I rea

by davedx 3y ago

Who says you need to be able to speak Thai? I'm saying you should let people store their names in your system the same way they were given them at birth. I really don't see what's absurd about that. This website is so English language biased it's hilarious. Btw we're talking about banks not Starbucks or mom and pop shops

lelanthran 3y ago
> This website is so English language biased it's hilarious. As is most international websites. And systems. And content, in general. It's a sad fact of life that, as we sail into a globally-connected future, the world is going to consolidate on a small number of languages, and the majority of languages are going to be left behind, discarded, and eventually die out. People want content. They will learn whatever language gets them the most content. Right now almost all content is produced in a small handful of languages, with (in the west) English being dominant. At this point it looks like English[1] is going to be in that small set of surviving languages. It's inevitable. Railing against it is a pointless waste of energy. [1] My home country has 11 languages, all official. Until widespread internet arrived it was common to find locals who could not speak English. Now, I'd be hard-pressed to find non-english speakers, even in the very outlying areas.
sheepshear 3y ago
If a Thai bank only used Thai script, I would roughly transcribe my Latin script name into Thai script. When in Rome ...
shiroiuma 3y ago
So what exactly do you expect the bank employees to do when they see a name in a script that looks like gibberish to them? They can't say the name aloud, they can't verify the customer's name matches any documents (if you don't know the language, you're not competent to verify names in the script), the name won't match any official government documents, so what's the point?

by davedx 3y ago

lelanthran 3y ago

> This website is so English language biased it's hilarious. As is most international websites. And systems. And content, in general. It's a sad fact of life that, as we sail into a globally-connected future, the world is going to consolidate on a small number of languages, and the majority of languages are going to be left behind, discarded, and eventually die out. People want content. They will learn whatever language gets them the most content. Right now almost all content is produced in a small handful of languages, with (in the west) English being dominant. At this point it looks like English[1] is going to be in that small set of surviving languages. It's inevitable. Railing against it is a pointless waste of energy. [1] My home country has 11 languages, all official. Until widespread internet arrived it was common to find locals who could not speak English. Now, I'd be hard-pressed to find non-english speakers, even in the very outlying areas.

sheepshear 3y ago

If a Thai bank only used Thai script, I would roughly transcribe my Latin script name into Thai script. When in Rome ...

shiroiuma 3y ago

So what exactly do you expect the bank employees to do when they see a name in a script that looks like gibberish to them? They can't say the name aloud, they can't verify the customer's name matches any documents (if you don't know the language, you're not competent to verify names in the script), the name won't match any official government documents, so what's the point?