Talk:คนโง่

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คนโง่

SOP --YURi (talk) 06:10, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

• Keep: now entered to mean "stupid person" but before short entered as "fool, idiot". Entered by User:Atitarev. If this is most common Thai word used for that, I'd like to keep it. What are other Thai words to refer to "idiot"? --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:53, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

It's not easy to decide, for a language like Thai, what should be included and what should not. The etymology is very straightforward คน (kon, “person”) + โง่ (ngôo, “stupid”).

คน (kon) is used to form words, like the English -er: คน (kon) + งาน (ngaan) = คนงาน (kon-ngaan, “worker”)

Nationalities and ethnicities: คนไทย (“Thai (person)”) = คน (kon) + คน (kon, “ไทย”)

Other uses of adjectives with nouns: ภาษาไทย (“Thai (language)”) = ภาษา (paa-sǎa) + คน (kon, “ไทย”), or fully qualified words for Thailand: ประเทศไทย, เมืองไทย (mʉʉang-tai). Both are formed by adding a word "country". My small dictionary only includes "คนโง่" in the Thai-English section but includes other similar words formed with คน (คนงาน - worker: "person" + "work", คนไข้ - patient: "person" + "sickness").--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:11, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Delete, literally means "stupid person" in its own language, which is in itself SOP, though many words in English represented in one word mean this same thing. Philmonte101 (talk) 23:59, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Keep. Not a straightforward case. There are many Thai words where คน (kon) + adjectives are in dictionaries. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:12, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Kept. No consensus to delete, not enough input. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:18, 21 September 2016 (UTC)