I bought the domain therawada.org and made a website with Qoder AI. Just wanted to get the domain for the community. Website is just kind of an unfinished information page for now. Please give me ideas on what I should turn it into.
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Orthodox, very nice layout.
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It would be good if you just spent your efforts to help proofread the website that we have, and help verify, correct and expand.
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Why w in there and not v?
It is the same. Some countries write and pronounce Theravada while others Therawada. The domain theravada was taken. The V and W being swapped is common in languages.
Also in Pali, I believe the ‘v’ is pronounced more as a ‘w’ but not 100% a ‘w’. I am not 100% sure about this but I saw it somewhere during research.
I would love to help. I think the orthodoxtheravada website’s UI could be a lot better. Did you make it with code or?
Yes.. the asians know this as “W”. However, we discussed this before that the commentary in pali says that the teeth should touch the lips.
In any case, it is not useful for an English website to be spelled that way. It is unknown to Westerners. Best to work on my website. There is a lot of work that needs verification and references. If they cannot be found, we must remove.
Yes, Venerable Sir. We discussed that in this thread. Pronunciation of 'V' in Pali
Probably because theravada.org is already taken. Most (nearly all) good domain names have already been taken.
IIT took theravado.com … lol. They have no idea how bad that sounds in many ways even though grammatically you can do that.
If you cannot get the right spelling, don’t make up a new one.
Orthodoxtheravada.org is good. I’m glad we have it. Theravada theravado therawada are too broad for me anyway.
I have been updating the website. We can work on the “style” later. The main thing is verifying and adding quoted material. I have beein doing that. You can search for “verified” on the website and see examples. (added search feature too).
We use Jekyll which is a framework based on MD “mark down”. Our classical theravada discourse server also uses the same md language.
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I also have made the domain therawada.org redirect to orthodoxtheravada.org.
v is pronounced as “v”, but the asians pronounce it as “w”, insist on it and will not change.
It’s interesting that “s” is pronounced as “th” and “c” is pronounced as “s” in Myanmar. I wonder why.
Legends have it that Thai people refused to pass on some sounds to Myanmar when transmitting the religion. Anyway, indeed, Myanmar Chanting is very, very out compared to international chanting, cannot even recognise the Pāli words unless one is very good at knowing which sound is substituted for which.
As a Burmese myself, Burmese Pali is very different. It sounds like a different language while still being Pali. It uses “z” sounds, a lot of “th”, etc…
Also based on Burmese chronicles and Sasanavamsa, the religion came to Myanmar 7 times, some of which were from Sri Lanka. It doesn’t mention the religion coming from Thailand. The religion first came to Lower Burma, Suvarnabhumi region. Historically the Mon Kingdom area and modern day Mon State in Myanmar.
I think Burmese Pali uses W instead of V because the V sound doesn’t exist in the Burmese language so it’s replaced by W. The S sound exists in Burmese though, but still Burmese Pali uses a sound closer to th or t instead of S for words like “Sarana” , “Sadhu”, “Sati”. I don’t know why Myanmar is the only country that doesn’t use the S sound for these words.
The J sound also exists in the Burmese language. I don’t know why Burmese Pali uses Z instead of J for the word “Jhana” or “Raja”.
The J in Burmese is weird. It is not the pure J sound. And it is written as KY instead of J.
There is also another type of J and its written as GY, this sounds more closer to the english J.
Ah indeed, AI said Thailand didn’t transmit Buddhism to Myanmar. But that when adopting Pali to the local language sounds, certain change happened, written alphabetically they got all the letters.