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Old 27-08-2008, 03:24 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Old 27-08-2008, 03:32 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Old 27-08-2008, 04:52 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Old 27-08-2008, 05:35 PM   #45 (permalink)
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What is an exact translation of "farang", and why do Thai people use this word so much to place focus onto people's ethnic appearance when doing so serves no purpose?
Dear Smeg,

I would like to answer what you wonder about 'farang' word. I am not sure what is the exactly true story but I have heard from my teacher when i was in high school. She told us in the class that 'farang" is the word that we called the foreigners who came to Thailand for the first empire like French. I would say " the modern word farang is DERIVED from the original commercial contacts vistiing Thailand who were Frenchmen. Then refered to generallly as Farance, meaning Frenchman and became "Farang" as in present. So Thai will call
European appearance that "Farang"

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Old 27-08-2008, 05:36 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Isn't "farang" an impolite or at least informal way to address a foreigner?
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Old 27-08-2008, 05:37 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Old 27-08-2008, 05:46 PM   #48 (permalink)
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Old 27-08-2008, 06:04 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Isn't "farang" an impolite or at least informal way to address a foreigner?
Dear K.Fabian,

It doean't matter. It is a common word to call them but we have Thai word to call foregner also "Chaaw-dtaang-chaat" or " Chaaw-dtaang-bpra-ted". You can say "farang but after you learn Thai from me today. You better try to use proper word as I suggest.

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Old 27-08-2008, 06:14 PM   #50 (permalink)
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I have to try to use the correct words anyway. My wife has studied linguistics and she will correct me all the time when I am saying something improper or incorrectly.

Thanks for your advise.
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Old 27-08-2008, 06:21 PM   #51 (permalink)
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I've been called that once in seven years. From a university director with a PhD.
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Old 27-08-2008, 07:07 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Dear Camel,

It's good to you to get more word from different people and situations, all will help you to fulfill your experience. I believe that many Thai words in your knowledge source will help you to select the proper word to say in daily life

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I would like to answer what you wonder about 'farang' word. I am not sure what is the exactly true story but I have heard from my teacher when i was in high school. She told us in the class that 'farang" is the word that we called the foreigners who came to Thailand for the first empire like French. I would say " the modern word farang is DERIVED from the original commercial contacts vistiing Thailand who were Frenchmen. Then refered to generallly as Farance, meaning Frenchman and became "Farang" as in present. So Thai will call European appearance that "Farang"
Amazingly, your teacher got it wrong. As with much of Thai culture, the word came across from India and Arabia.
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Isn't "farang" an impolite or at least informal way to address a foreigner?
Dear K.Fabian,

It doean't matter.
What you mean is "please don't ask that. Just drop it. Farang that thinks and knows too much catches us out"

Farang is an informal word. For a Thai to use an informal word to refer to a person they don't know is impolite, especially if it is a word which is also used as a common noun i.e. refers to a type of fruit.
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Amazingly, your teacher got it wrong. As with much of Thai culture, the word came across from India and Arabia.
Everything I have read states they don't know where the word "Farang" originated from.
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i don't speak Thai but i heard from a Thai-French friend that the word farang comes from "FRANCAIS" which means French (for a person) in french (the language).
Thai people couldn't pronounce it correctly: so they actually said "FARANG SAY".
And it is how the word farang was used to designate a white person.
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i don't speak Thai but i heard from a Thai-French friend that the word farang comes from "FRANCAIS" which means French (for a person) in french (the language). Thai people couldn't pronounce it correctly: so they actually said "FARANG SAY". And it is how the word farang was used to designate a white person.
I guess India and the ME must've got the same word from the Thais then.
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As with much of Thai culture, the word came across from India and Arabia.[/quote]
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Dear Marmite,

Your topic is interesting, can you explain me more about it root in the formal way. I'm ready to get more information to fulfill my brain.
PS. However, Farang(Guava) is my favorite fruit,then I have only the positive side with them.

Thank you,
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