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Thai is world champ

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Now here's a Thai who knows his English! Pete :cheers:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... t-thai-win
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Mods, this one may be good enough to be in 'news', you decide. Pete :cheers:
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:bow: Respect to the Thai gentleman.

I think you're right, he's Thai and it's news - moved to the news section.
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Big Boy wrote::bow: Respect to the Thai gentleman.
Couldn't agree more. Terrific.
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Well done chaps - an excellent victory. I think there is however a clue to explain this success in the Thai competitors names, viz. Nemitrmansuk, Siriwangso and Panyasophonlert.

If, as a child, they have to remember such complex names in its Anglicised format then the World Scrabble tournament must seem like a walk in the park to them.

Again, my hearty congratulations to the Thai competitors.
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Go Thais - which of the 3 romanized spelling systems did they use I wonder?
You could hardly expect an American to win given what they have done to the ENGLISH language and their inability to spell apart from those few little kids that "lob" up for the national spelling bee and the winners tend to be Chinese anyway ha, ha.
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I had the unfortunate experience of overseeing a Scrabble competition at the university a while back. The student who won was certainly not the best English speaker/writer at the university - he'd just memorised the ridiculous words from one of the Scrabble books that you can buy. They take it pretty seriously here, and you can buy books with combinations of letters (I'm not even going to call them words) which I've never heard of or would ever use.

I think that there should be a new rule in Scrabble competitions: You should be able to give a definition of the word you put down. I don't want to take away the glory from the Thai guy, but I just wonder how good his English really is... :|

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