Comments on: Backpacker’s Secret Guide: Champasak, Lao PDR http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:26:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hal http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Hal Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:42 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-170 Thanks for the feedback, Andris. If you have more time in the region and want to escape the hordes, check the article "How to Get Off the Tourist Trail in SE Asia" on this site. By the way, the photos on your site are amazing! I really enjoyed browsing through them. Thanks for the feedback, Andris. If you have more time in the region and want to escape the hordes, check the article “How to Get Off the Tourist Trail in SE Asia” on this site.

By the way, the photos on your site are amazing! I really enjoyed browsing through them.

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]]> By: Hal http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1584 Hal Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:33:42 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-1584 Thanks for the feedback, Andris. If you have more time in the region and want to escape the hordes, check the article "How to Get Off the Tourist Trail in SE Asia" on this site.<br /><br /> By the way, the photos on your site are amazing! I really enjoyed browsing through them. Thanks for the feedback, Andris. If you have more time in the region and want to escape the hordes, check the article "How to Get Off the Tourist Trail in SE Asia" on this site.

By the way, the photos on your site are amazing! I really enjoyed browsing through them.

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]]> By: Andris http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Andris Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:20:53 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-169 Hi Hal, Great article! I unfortunately passed right by Champasak on my way from the Cambodian border at Stung Treng to Pakse. Once I was surrounded by comatose Friends-rerun watching backpackers in Vang Vieng I found myself wishing I had spent more time in the much quieter south of Laos. Andris Hi Hal,

Great article! I unfortunately passed right by Champasak on my way from the Cambodian border at Stung Treng to Pakse. Once I was surrounded by comatose Friends-rerun watching backpackers in Vang Vieng I found myself wishing I had spent more time in the much quieter south of Laos.

Andris

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]]> By: Andris http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1583 Andris Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:20:53 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-1583 Hi Hal,<br /><br /> Great article! I unfortunately passed right by Champasak on my way from the Cambodian border at Stung Treng to Pakse. Once I was surrounded by comatose Friends-rerun watching backpackers in Vang Vieng I found myself wishing I had spent more time in the much quieter south of Laos. <br /><br /> Andris Hi Hal,

Great article! I unfortunately passed right by Champasak on my way from the Cambodian border at Stung Treng to Pakse. Once I was surrounded by comatose Friends-rerun watching backpackers in Vang Vieng I found myself wishing I had spent more time in the much quieter south of Laos.

Andris

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]]> By: Bill http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Bill Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:07:45 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-155 You can find a reference to the Portuguese culpability of adding the "s" here: http://www.statoids.com/ula.html You can find a reference to the Portuguese culpability of adding the “s” here:
http://www.statoids.com/ula.html

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]]> By: Bill http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Bill Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:02:00 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-154 Hal, I do not know where I read the reference. But the first instance of the word Laos appears in a 16th century Portuguese document. The adding of the "s" was explained as a linguistic attempt to make the name conform to Portuguese usage. Something like Italians always adding an "a" onto English words. On the other issue as to whether it is Laos or Lao. Well, you can ask the same question of other English place names. Is it Holland or the Netherlands, Germany or Deutschland, Ireland or Eire, China or Zhoungo, Japan or Nippon? Hal,
I do not know where I read the reference. But the first instance of the word Laos appears in a 16th century Portuguese document. The adding of the “s” was explained as a linguistic attempt to make the name conform to Portuguese usage. Something like Italians always adding an “a” onto English words.

On the other issue as to whether it is Laos or Lao. Well, you can ask the same question of other English place names. Is it Holland or the Netherlands, Germany or Deutschland, Ireland or Eire, China or Zhoungo, Japan or Nippon?

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]]> By: Bill http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1582 Bill Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:07:45 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-1582 You can find a reference to the Portuguese culpability of adding the "s" here:<br /><a href="http://www.statoids.com/ula.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.statoids.com/ula.html</a> You can find a reference to the Portuguese culpability of adding the "s" here:
http://www.statoids.com/ula.html

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]]> By: Bill http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Bill Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:02:00 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-1581 Hal,<br /> I do not know where I read the reference. But the first instance of the word Laos appears in a 16th century Portuguese document. The adding of the "s" was explained as a linguistic attempt to make the name conform to Portuguese usage. Something like Italians always adding an "a" onto English words. <br /><br /> On the other issue as to whether it is Laos or Lao. Well, you can ask the same question of other English place names. Is it Holland or the Netherlands, Germany or Deutschland, Ireland or Eire, China or Zhoungo, Japan or Nippon? Hal,
I do not know where I read the reference. But the first instance of the word Laos appears in a 16th century Portuguese document. The adding of the "s" was explained as a linguistic attempt to make the name conform to Portuguese usage. Something like Italians always adding an "a" onto English words.

On the other issue as to whether it is Laos or Lao. Well, you can ask the same question of other English place names. Is it Holland or the Netherlands, Germany or Deutschland, Ireland or Eire, China or Zhoungo, Japan or Nippon?

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]]> By: Hal http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Hal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:17:35 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-151 Thanks, Bill, I hadn't heard that. Wikipedia and Lonely Planet both finger the French, but then I guess they're not the most reliable sources. In looking into this, I discovered a site that addresses a slightly different facet of the issue: is it "Laos" or "Lao"? Pretty interesting, check it out: http://lao-ocean.com/2004/11/05/whats-in-a-name-lao-or-laos/ Thanks, Bill, I hadn’t heard that. Wikipedia and Lonely Planet both finger the French, but then I guess they’re not the most reliable sources.

In looking into this, I discovered a site that addresses a slightly different facet of the issue: is it “Laos” or “Lao”? Pretty interesting, check it out:
http://lao-ocean.com/2004/11/05/whats-in-a-name-lao-or-laos/

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]]> By: Bill http://matadortrips.com/backpackers-secret-guide-champasak-lao-pdr/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Bill Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:54:28 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=39#comment-147 FYI, the "s" was added by the Portuguese long before the French ever came. FYI, the “s” was added by the Portuguese long before the French ever came.

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