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Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought?
head_dunce writes "It seems that this economy has inspired a lot of businesses to move to Linux, with Red Hat posting profits that beat everyone's expectations. There's a dark side to being a highly profitable company in a down economy, though — now there are talks of Citigroup and Oracle wanting to buy Red Hat. For a while now, we've been watching Yahoo fend off Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer so that they could stay independent, but the fight seems to be a huge distraction for Yahoo, with lots of energy (and money) invested. Will Red Hat stay independent? What potential buyer would make for a good parent company?"
Good, KDE sucks.
Well, in addition to your post's basic premise being a little over the top, you're completely wrong on your analysis of Thai: one syllable names show nothing. In fact, traditional Thais normally have relatively short names (e.g. Kao Klai, a K-1 fighter), yet they _still_ take nicknames. Thais generally use their nicknames, like "Nok," throughout their adult lives, even if they are movie stars or university professors. The use of the full given name is really rather rare unless it's used for identification purposes (i.e. in a news article).
Thais generally use repetition (lek lek), alliteration (sum sarm), or rhyming (reuay beuay) to create a diminutive, though these can also be used to create flowery language in an article, a song, or a poem.
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I'm not trying to have an argument with you. Did you arrive at this theory through your own experiences?
In my years studying Thai, no one ever mentioned this concept, and my gal (a native Thai speaker of Chinese decent) doesn't get it, either. Her nickname is Goy, which she uses exclusively. I've never known a Thai (male or female) to use the given name in normal life. The exception is for identification purposes (e.g. news reports and rosters).
My guess is that we're bound to disagree on this point and should probably drop it. Are you teaching in Thailand? I've been in Korea for far too long and need to get back to the tropics. Now is not a good time to take my money out of Korea, though. Sigh. The won is shit.
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