Asimov's foundation - Can anyone speak Thai?

[kafka47]

Here is a great prop for any traveller group that does not involve a Thai speaking individual (and even it does, (s)he can play the Vilani)

[IMG]http://www.projectrho.com/galaxy_1280.jpg[/IMG]

Moderator Note: The link was correctly formed. I added an unparsed version so that the rest of us can see what's being talked about.

 

[Spinward Scout]

All I see is a red X.

 

[BlackBat242]

I don't even see that!

 

[su_liam]

Mr. Kafka, sir? Could you please fix your image link? I'm very curious to see this.

Thank you.

 

[Rraurgrimm]

After I did enter the site (http://www.projectrho.com/) the graphics there did not load at first, either. I had to go through several of the on-site links (especially the 3-D starmap looks really interesting) and all of a sudden the graphics seemed to load. Using the back-button of my browser I could now see the other graphics, including the one mentioned here.

 

[Beech]

That worked for me too - strange!

 

[ravells]

Cool site! Thanks!

Ravs

 

[kafka47]

Sorry about that, everything seems to work for me...just I am just special...anyhow here is a link to a PDF that hopefully will work for you all less ...

http://www.orbit.in.th/download/map/galaxy.pdf

It is of the Foundation galaxy.

 

[zakrol]

Aside from not being able to read Vilani , the main thing that struck me was how large the political entities were. I'd always pictured the four kingdoms and other provinces as being much smaller than that - the empire was so large and ungovernable that any individual province would be little more than a speck on a galactic map - or maybe the size that has been asssigned to (what I assume is) Terminus.

Interesting stuff, though. And what is that language?

Chris

PS- And now I've been to the site with the image, I can see it here too. Strange.

 

[aramis]

The language is written Thai. (I see it at work often.) In addition to seeing a lot of it at work, I compared the characters to the omniglot page for Thai

 

[Fritz_Brown]

I kinda figured that out when he mentioned Thai right in the original post...

Plus, I've made several trips to Thailand (when I was still military). It's a wonderful place. And, written Thai does make a great "alien" language.

 

[Timerover51]

My apologies for the bump, but for those interested, you can download a Thai phrase book published by the U.S. Army in 1944 at archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/TM30-331/page/n3/mode/2up