Thread: A quick translation!!

Originally Posted by Humbert

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My sentiments, exactly...

Cheers...

Originally Posted by toddaniels

The topic was "Have you ever seen snow?" Now snow in thai is หิมะ (hì má), with both words being short vowels and low/high tones respectively; while a dog's pussy is หีหมา (hǐi mǎa), with both words being long vowels and both rising tones.

Fvcs me up every time that one.

"Have you ever seen a dogs pussy!"

"What?!!"

"Nevermind.."

Surely a classic the old Hee Maa

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Originally Posted by toddaniels

The topic was "Have you ever seen snow?" Now snow in thai is หิมะ (hì má), with both words being short vowels and low/high tones respectively; while a dog's pussy is หีหมา (hǐi mǎa), with both words being long vowels and both rising tones.

Fvcs me up every time that one.

And to think I thought Hima was short for Himalayas (ie: Lhotse, Everest)

Sorry for the thread devolving into being "a little academic".

I hate when that happenz on this forum....

Paddy Whackery; those mindless threads by one-post-wonders which are titled "urgent translation!", "please help!" "blah-blah-blah", are pretty funny most of the time..

In all the hundreds I've perused on the inter-web I've only found one where a foreigner's thai (in)significant other was talking to her real thai husband (who the foreigner knew as her "cousin").. The rest are by a large just drivel.

taxexile nailed that spoonerism, but Neverna was disqualified as they answered in english, plus they scoffed at the prize!!

Now in an effort to drag this thread even further afield err off topic;
I found a link on the inter-web which lists a TON of thai spoonerisms. Some are easy to work out, some are pretty fuckin' tough, or possibly just tough for me.

Here're a couple that I've worked out;
ไข่ยวย
งี่เหียน
จี๋เห็บ
เช่าวรรค - ชักว่าว
ซวยแค่บ

Thaiz appear to take some creative license on their spoonerisms. I can't tell if you take the initial consonant and leave the vowels or take the vowels and leave the consonants.. I mean is จี๋เห็บ - เจ็บหี or หีเจ็บ? So far I'm unable to find the rules of how to exactly parse them out..

Not that anyone is particularly interested but here's the link to the list of thai spoonerisms
Thai Spoonerismz

It would appear thai teens are creating "cutesy spoonerisms" too;
ปุ๊บน่าจาง - ปากน่าจุ๊บ
คังถึงจิ๊ด - คิดถึงจัง
ไรกันมัก - รักกันมั้ย
Although for the life of me I can't figure out why. Then again there I go, looking for logic where there is none to be had..

As an aside and only slightly more on topic;
Luigi and his; "How fucking dare a foreigner feel at one with Thais." question is so far out there the mind wobbles (unless it was rhetorical or sarcastic)... Feeling at one with these people is like becoming one with the 'collective" of the Borg from the sci-fi show Star Trek the Next Generation.

Now don't mis-remember what I'm tryin' to say;
I feel just fine living here 24/7, day in day out, in and amongst the ever smiling, yet diminutive indigenous natives, but in that same breath I sure as hell don't feel at one with these people; EVER! Most days I trust people (thaiz & foreignerz alike) about as far as I can piss; which ain't that far as I have an enlarged prostate.

You're looking for Western logic, Todly...which, in your [and others] mind is considered a standard. As we don't want to appear to be inferior to other lower cultures, do we?

Why..?
Don't know.

Please realize that while my posts are cynical, acerbic and hard core, I'm most definitely NOT tryin' to talk down to anyone.

I'm tryin' to talk to you people on your level.

Gimme your hand, I'll pull you up here with me..

Originally Posted by toddaniels

Please realize that while my posts are cynical, acerbic and hard core, I'm most definitely NOT tryin' to talk down to anyone.

I'm tryin' to talk to you people on your level.

Gimme your hand, I'll pull you up here with me..

Nothing condescending about that eh, Todd?

Originally Posted by thaimeme

You're looking for Western logic, Todly...which, in your [and others] mind is considered a standard. As we don't want to appear to be inferior to other lower cultures, do we?

Are there other types of logic? Logic is sentential calculus ie. math. Math is not subject to culture.