Thread: Perception of what is Thai

Heh, you humans and your endocrine systems, you get wound up so easily, all those messy chemicals sloshing around. Thanks for playing.

...while you clever types are cnuting and twating away, i'm still trying to understand the point of the OP... help!

Ignore DrBob, he's been struck off. (malpractice)

What I was fuzzily trying to say is that the drive to create a thai identity results in people being ignorant of their own language. These days in Chiang Mai you generally hear thai spoken or a thai/muang mix. The muang language is on the way out. The kids I was refering to thought they were speaking thai.

Originally Posted by Begbie

Ignore DrBob, he's been struck off. (malpractice)

What I was fuzzily trying to say is that the drive to create a thai identity results in people being ignorant of their own language. These days in Chiang Mai you generally hear thai spoken or a thai/muang mix. The muang language is on the way out. The kids I was refering to thought they were speaking thai.

Don't be disrespectable of the Doc, Begs. You realize his Ph.D disciplne and expertise is in Thainess.

There are a lot of foreign words mixed in everyday Thai but English is just as bad. It seems like to get fussy over tapsap goes nowhere in the end. It will just end up in a debate about where the first hamburger came from or something like that. And we know that the hamburger was created in America. The chips or fries originally came from France. Noodles from China. etc etc.