High Time the Vehicle Number Plates be in English & Thai

[critical]

@ wilko, I'm sure you're capable of coming up with your own conclusions on that one too.

Enough said. Cheers.

[vac]

You may have noticed that in Thailand a lot of people speak, write and read Thai. I would say the majority. If you drive in Thailand you should have a car, meaning you live here. I would be a nice thought to learn the alphabet. If you go to India or China, guess what ? they have their own alphabet.
Taxis have a registration number with the name of the driver well in evidence. So if you are scared of their driving jot down the number everytime you sit in one.
By the way, tourism in Thailand is not the main economic factor. Tourism accounts for less than 10% of GDP and Thailand hosts less tourists than ... Malaysia or Vietnam.
So maybe we adapt to Thai culture rather than Thais adapt to western culture which I am not sure is better anyeay.
Last point I am a farang

[critical]

@ vac, you are right about that GDP as it is about 6 to 7% per year. However, my point was that, it is one of the sources and that there are millions of visitors coming into Thailand each year and also those living here.

India, Taiwan & Hong Kong have their own albhabets but the vehicle number plates are in English. Again, my intension was never to say the number plates shouldn't be in Thai at all, but rather, a suggestion that it "might" be better if they were in english too, IMO. The numbers are anyways in English and not Thai. If it really has to be in Thai then why not make the whole thing in Thai itself, including the numbers?

I'm not against anyone here and yes we should adapt to their culture and norms as we live in their country.

[vac]

I still believe that we are better off here than in many other countries.
You are right about numbers. They help us stupid farands by using arabic numbering. By the way they also help us on direction signs ... I have lived in the PRC for some time and there signage (and plates) are all in Chinese ...
If you go to the Gulf signage is bi-lingual but plates are not ...
So at the end I believe that Thais have gone out of the way to make our life here acceptable (for historical reasons dating to the '60s and '70s). We can ask for more but it is not "high time ....". more "it would be nice and helpful if ..."

[critical]

@ vac, accepted that we should ask for it rather than it being high time.

[Silaworld]

@ vac, accepted that we should ask for it rather than it being high time.

Critical,
Now the matter seems to be settled!
Remains one question... who will YOUask?

Have a nice day!

[critical]

Will drop a suggestion to the proper authority while I go to choose my new vehicle's permanent number and keep my fingers crossed that it's read haha. Though, there's a big possiblity that the suggestion might be ignored but atleast I would know I tried.

[daninthai]

Sorry to those that disagree, but calling it the English Alphabet is fair enough. English, as a language, has an alphabet. That alphabet is derived from the latin alphabet, but guess what, we don't speak latin anymore.
Other languages use letters also derived from the latin alphabet. Some use the same letters as the English alphabet, some use more (e.g. Danish), and some use less (e.g. Italian). To suggest the Thai government use the 26 letters used in the English alphabet is clear enough; just those 26 letters, no more, no less.
Get over it.

[critical]

Well said danin.

[observer 101]

what the OP demands is tantamount to Thais living in US, Canada, South America, Europe, et,etc to demand the use of Thai letters instead of English or whatever is their national language on car license plates.

Why can't you just learn the Thai alphabet, consonants only ????? Its rather interesting if not fascinating.

For your sake better hope and pray they don't switch to thai characters pinned to entertainment women (go go, massage, etc)


The better demand is that to know, why is it that Thailand attracts so many low IQ foreigners?