Sawasdee - Phien Dich tu Bangkok Post 7-10-2003

khruu kap aajaan
The feature story in learning post dated 2 September 2003, entitled English: The Asian Way by Kingsley Bolton is extremely interesting for me. One sentence reads õ?~Recently the Macquarie Dictionary team from Australia, compiled a list of Thai words to include in the Grolier International Dictionaryõ?T. And the first on that list is õ?~acharnõ?T. Ah, I think this is a good subject for this column. Why? I was asked one question many times õ?" whatõ?Ts the difference between õ?~archarnõ?T and õ?~khruõ?T? The Grolier definition explains the terms this way:
acharn noun Thai English a teacher, normally at tertiary level õ?" Other Forms: Other spellings are ajarn, ajaan and archarn. Teachers other than at university are usually called khru. This word is borrowed into English from Thai.
What do you think of this definition? Thong, in todayõ?Ts conversation, observes how we Thais use the terms.
á-áưá? á,áưá-ááĂáưáạ"áÊáôáTạ^áưáÂáêá Thông, xin hoè?i giè? chuèt nghe
áĐạ^ááĂáạ?áƠá Noèi tặĂèi luôn
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ạ?áÊáãạ^áưá?áTáàạ?á.áưásáÂááạáđá ChuyêèÊn naè?y traè? lặĂè?i khoè Sh.
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