Talk:ลามก

Adjective, verb or both?

As discussed on my talk page, I agree with those who treat Asian (Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, etc.) adjectives as adjectives only, even if they can be used as predicates without a copula. That's just the way adjectives are in these languages. --Anatoli 01:54, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Well, Chinese does have adjectoverbs like this one that require no copula, but it also has ones that require shi...de. I can't remember any of them, but uh. Ya :D I'm not sure if Thai is similar, so I just put both. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 01:56, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Shi ... de (是...的) is used for emphasis only on adjectives and other parts of speech, they are not a copula. The usage of Chinese adjectives is very similar to Thai, only the Chinese prefer not to use the simplest model: noun/pronoun + adjective, an additional word must be inserted.e.g. 很 (very) - "he is happy" 他很高兴 (lit. "he very happy"), 很 doesn't add the meaning of "very" here but makes a sentence sound better. Cf. Vietnamese: anh ấy mừng, which is just like Thai - lit. "he happy". --Anatoli 02:14, 7 February 2011 (UTC)