Thread: Seminar; Thai Bites LIVE "The Road to Fluency"

Originally Posted by bowie

ltnt: "Perhaps many foreigners shut the door before they should on Thais? Over the years here I've met numerous English speaking Thais and they didn't seem to "mangle," the language. Many spoke better English than many of the poster's here type."


Salute!

I have many Thai acquaintances and several close friends who are truly outstanding intelligent human beings. I am very fortunate to be able to call them friend. And yes, a couple of them speak flawless English.

Is that you Scampy?

I too have many, many thai friends, in fact far more than I do foreign ones. Once a thai gets over the fact that I'm abrasive as coarse sand paper they're usually okay with me after that.

Bowie; "outstanding intelligent human beings" is a fine compliment to give any human bean, err being.

It brings back the memory of an 80+ year old American guy who has a thai wife.. He said to me one day, "You know Tod, my thai wife's very clever." I said to him, "Monkeys and racoons are clever too but I wouldn't marry one."

I guess I'm off his christmas card list as I haven't heard from him in a while now. Either that, or his clever thai wife got sick of playing nurse and just offed him..

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by bowie

ltnt: "Perhaps many foreigners shut the door before they should on Thais? Over the years here I've met numerous English speaking Thais and they didn't seem to "mangle," the language. Many spoke better English than many of the poster's here type."


Salute!

I have many Thai acquaintances and several close friends who are truly outstanding intelligent human beings. I am very fortunate to be able to call them friend. And yes, a couple of them speak flawless English.

Is that you Scampy?

No. 'tis not Scampy. Sorry to disappoint.

Originally Posted by toddaniels

I too have many, many thai friends, in fact far more than I do foreign ones. Once a thai gets over the fact that I'm abrasive as coarse sand paper they're usually okay with me after that.

Bowie; "outstanding intelligent human beings" is a fine compliment to give any human bean, err being.

It brings back the memory of an 80+ year old American guy who has a thai wife.. He said to me one day, "You know Tod, my thai wife's very clever." I said to him, "Monkeys and racoons are clever too but I wouldn't marry one."

I guess I'm off his christmas card list as I haven't heard from him in a while now. Either that, or his clever thai wife got sick of playing nurse and just offed him..

Tod, Compliments, I try to call them as I see them and I am fairly stingy in offering them up.

I to would be put off if you called my wife a monkey, as the 80 year old interpreted you comment. For the 80 year olds sake, may he have the smarts to have foregone the purchase of a life insurance policy.

Sod Off Todd, you just a Toot Ling!

Originally Posted by mingmong

Sod Off Todd, you just a Toot Ling!

Actually there "mingmong" the phrase isn't ตูดลิง. That phrase carries no negative connotation in thai to thaiz. It's almost like clueless foreigners who try to call a thai an asshole and use รูตูด the actual thai word for anus, but again it carries NO meaning in thai other than identifying an orifice in your body..

I believe the phrase you're lookin' for is ดากลิง. When said by a native thai speaker sounds remarkably close to the thai-if-a-cation of the engrish word "darling". I've heard "ไก่หลง" (lost chickens/aka streetwalkers) refer to their customers with this to their faces and it never fails to make me smile...

Now without further ado, we return you to the "let's slag off Tod Daniels" match already in progress.

We now return to the pissing match already in progress!

piss off then...