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Conlangery #114: Thai (natlang)

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Tie People Usually Use Nicknames

Almost almost everyone in tie land goes commonly by a nickname not by their given name and there are lots of ideas or stories about why that's true. The nicknames are more often some kind of trait that the parents or the family senses in the child when they're very young so if a baby is particularly small for example they might get the nickname lek which just means small you know lek lek means small is and not big. If somebody were being referred to by their nickname it would still get a mister little on it, he says.

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