Swiss diamond????

On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:09:33 GMT, "Lawrence"
wrote:

you paying just $30(relatively low for diamond earrings)...diamonds named
"sawit", makes me think that's just another fancy marketing term for lab
created stones - just like russian cut cz's, or the home shopping network's
'diamonique', etc.

I was thinking along those same lines. The fact that the jewelry
industry is notorious for huge markups makes me unsure. After all, how
many hands does a cut stone pass through (each marking the price up)
before it gets from the cutter in Chantaburri to a display case in the
US? With a 400% markup they might sell for $150 in a retail store
here.

Anyway, today I found out that an acquaintance has a daughter that
owns a couple of jewelry stores here and he took the earrings to show
to her. Hopefully she will be able to tell me what they are. I thought
it would be a simple task to find the meaning of "sawit". I went with
low cost pieces just in case it turns out to mean something like cz.


Tim


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On Fri, 13 May 2005 00:43:46 GMT, "Marilee J. Layman"
wrote:


Now see, that bit about Inuit having lots of words for snow is not
true, so it's really not a good comparison.

I couldn't resist, I had to look it up. :-)

Anyone interested can read about Inuit snow terms here.
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.d.../5/5-1239.html
I found it interesting.


Tim


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what I didn't know then.

interesting, thanx!

Carl


Tim wrote:

On Fri, 13 May 2005 00:43:46 GMT, "Marilee J. Layman"
wrote:


Now see, that bit about Inuit having lots of words for snow is not
true, so it's really not a good comparison.


I couldn't resist, I had to look it up. :-)

Anyone interested can read about Inuit snow terms here.
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.d.../5/5-1239.html
I found it interesting.


Tim


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what I didn't know then.


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On Fri, 13 May 2005 05:45:35 GMT, Tim
wrote:

On Fri, 13 May 2005 00:43:46 GMT, "Marilee J. Layman"
wrote:

Now see, that bit about Inuit having lots of words for snow is not
true, so it's really not a good comparison.

You may be right but I would find that surprising since here in the
midwest we have several different kinds of snow.

We have several different kinds of snow even here in Virginia, but the
bit about the Inuit having hundreds of words for snow is wrong.


Who told you "Sawit" meant "Swiss"?

I had the store owner write what the stones were in Thai. The
handwriting is pretty hard to read but it was translated as "swiss" by
two different Thai people. Also, if you speak any Thai you will
recognize how Thais would generally insert a vowel between an "sw"
consonant cluster, and a word ending in the letter "s" would be
pronounced as if it were a "t". So what I heard as "sawit" could
correspond to the Thai pronunciation of "swiss" or possibly even the
word "service". If you can read Thai or have access to someone who
reads Thai the handwritten text can be seen here.
http://solyimps.com/sct/image.jpg The bottom two lines are those
containing the "sawit" references.

I know bits of Thai, I can't read it.

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On Fri, 13 May 2005 05:45:44 GMT, Tim
wrote:

On Fri, 13 May 2005 00:43:46 GMT, "Marilee J. Layman"
wrote:


Now see, that bit about Inuit having lots of words for snow is not
true, so it's really not a good comparison.

I couldn't resist, I had to look it up. :-)

Anyone interested can read about Inuit snow terms here.
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.d.../5/5-1239.html
I found it interesting.

A dozen or so is not lots, or even hundreds, which is what most people
claim.

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Marilee J. Layman

On Wed, 11 May 2005 03:28:58 GMT, Tim
wrote:

Recently I was in Thailand and bought some earrings that were
represented as "sawit" diamond. This has been translated as swiss
diamond but I have never heard the term. Anybody know what I have,
assuming of course that I have what I was told I was buying?

I asked a linguist I know and he said this isn't his area of study, so
the best he can come up with is that "sawit" is the shorter of two
names for Switzerland. (He also notes that in Malaysian, "sawit"
means "oil palm.")

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Marilee J. Layman

On Sun, 15 May 2005 04:33:41 GMT, "Marilee J. Layman"
wrote:

I asked a linguist I know and he said this isn't his area of study, so
the best he can come up with is that "sawit" is the shorter of two
names for Switzerland. (He also notes that in Malaysian, "sawit"
means "oil palm.")

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Marilee J. Layman

Thanks Marilee. Oil palm diamond doesn't sound promising. :-)


Tim


I wish I didn't know now
what I didn't know then.

Tim wrote:

On Fri, 13 May 2005 00:43:46 GMT, "Marilee J. Layman"
wrote:


Now see, that bit about Inuit having lots of words for snow is not
true, so it's really not a good comparison.


You may be right but I would find that surprising since here in the
midwest we have several different kinds of snow.

On the other hand, the Maltese have no words for snow. On the rare
occasions they have it they use their word for ice.



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