"Farang" a Dirty Word?

**Iceman123** · 15-12-2016, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Latin and Greek are inflected, Thai and English are not.

Bob must be two thousand years old to be able to tell us about the pronunciation of Latin. Psst Bob - it's a dead language, pronounced/ with inflection different in Church and school settings. -no one can comment upon what is correct, because no one knows.

**NZdick1983** · 15-12-2016, 04:23 AM

Awesome Khun Bobby! I bow down to your superior knowledge of thai karaoke spelling...

khun geng mak na....sood yot krap!. *pls edit for spelling mistakes*

as I can't live with myself knowing I lazily used khun instead of khon... no wonder Za is so messed up - from 3 years of stalking me....poor girl suffers karaoke abuse stress disorder (KASD)...

**Nicethaiza** · 15-12-2016, 07:14 AM

DrBob should competition in spoken thai with Dickie in skype... I don't believe anyone can beat him...some of my friend asked me after heard his voice Dickie's dad are thai (joke about his dad)? why he fluent in thai (speak I mean )...

**IsaanBoy** · 15-12-2016, 07:15 AM

sawat dee craps

**NZdick1983** · 15-12-2016, 07:17 AM

What kind of man would say they were good/fluent at something and lie?

If you ask me anything I am not good at (the list is endless) I will soon tell ya...

*can't dance

*can't play the guitar

*can't parallel park

*can't' ow gun' man bottom heh... (how do you spell ow gun? aow gan?) anyway...

**Nicethaiza** · 15-12-2016, 07:18 AM

Isaanboy have Japeness GF..how about your japaness language

...

**NZdick1983** · 15-12-2016, 07:21 AM

^ Really? your missus is Japanese, IB san?

either way, Kia Ora bro..

**IsaanBoy** · 15-12-2016, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by Nicethaiza

Isaanboy have Japeness GF..how about your japaness language

...

I am also Irish

**DrB0b** · 15-12-2016, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Iceman123

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Latin and Greek are inflected, Thai and English are not.

Bob must be two thousand years old to be able to tell us about the pronunciation of Latin. Psst Bob - it's a dead language, pronounced/ with inflection different in Church and school settings. -no one can comment upon what is correct, because no one knows.

Eh?
grammatical inflection has nothing to do with sound or pronunciation, you idiot!

**Sumbitch** · 15-12-2016, 09:53 AM

So many smart posters on this thread.

I remember the pain and difficulty of becoming a native speaker (of English). Thank God so many years have passed that the pain is not remembered. But the hatred is. Yet I got over that too and even love the language now to the extent of teaching it here in LOS for 5 years.

<---Auroria?

And I love Thai so much that it's my second favorite language. Yet I can barely say "hello", "how are you", "what's your name?". Some people just have a way with foreign languages and I'm not one.

**BaitongBoy** · 15-12-2016, 10:24 AM

^ What's Seeking's sausage wrapper doing in your post?...

**NZdick1983** · 15-12-2016, 10:29 AM

^ I've seen that pic before... is that a dick warmer? good for winter...

**sabang** · 15-12-2016, 10:41 AM

It's as simple as this- if you are so damn sensitive about being called farang, don't damn come here. I'm not even going to glorify this stoopid, endlessly repeated tripe with the derivation of the word- which exists in many different languages. Google it, or just piss your nappy and go home.

**BaitongBoy** · 15-12-2016, 10:41 AM

It's a King Willy warmer...

**NZdick1983** · 15-12-2016, 10:50 AM

^ I think I'll stick with me flesh light thanks.. don't want willy rash from the wool...

**Sumbitch** · 15-12-2016, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

What's Seeking's sausage wrapper doing in your post?

I didn't know Seeking had anything of mine.

**BaitongBoy** · 15-12-2016, 11:06 AM

^ Fairy 'nuff...Sumbitch...

**Sumbitch** · 15-12-2016, 12:15 PM

^ is that cos seekingasylum is "outside, pissing in"?

**Auroria** · 15-12-2016, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by sabang

It's as simple as this- if you are so damn sensitive about being called farang, don't damn come here. I'm not even going to glorify this stoopid, endlessly repeated tripe with the derivation of the word- which exists in many different languages. Google it, or just piss your nappy and go home.

Is there a thread on how to correctly write Felang in English.

**NZdick1983** · 15-12-2016, 12:20 PM

^ They can't even decide a universal spelling of Don Meung/Don meang, etc, etc.. yet... as long as it's readable... 'sharng mun' (who cares?)...

let us bastardize their lingo, like they do ours.. no?

Originally Posted by Auroria

Is there a thread on how to correctly write Felang in English.

I propose.... Far-long... with emphasis on the long...

**Sumbitch** · 15-12-2016, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

let us bastardize their lingo, like they do ours.. no?

we already have and so have they and it's called Tinglish and it's a step in the right direction towards learning Thai and learning Eng afaic just bc we can meet halfway there. I speak it fluently and I've found that Thais don't think it's crass or stupid but westerners generally do. I tell you what they do think is stupid is when westerners "practice" speaking Thai with them.

**Nicethaiza** · 15-12-2016, 01:16 PM

For me I am thai I am happy if farang try to learn thai or can speak thai...I think most of us think the same ..you guys just go out from the tourist place maybe you can see more friendly thai people ( I suggest Issan my home 555+ just kidding)...only some who want to lie to you that they dont want you to speak thai they scared if you ROO MAK so they dont like if you know thai or speak thai but not a lot I am sure...

**Headworx** · 15-12-2016, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

I propose.... Far-long... with emphasis on the long...

In kareoke type I would propose fah-lung with a medium tone on the far and a falling tone on the lung. Well that's how my ears hear it. In any case who really cares, I'm just happy to be one

**DrB0b** · 15-12-2016, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

They can't even decide a universal spelling of Don Meung/Don meang, etc, etc.. yet... as long as it's readable... 'sharng mun' (who cares?)...

They've got a universal spelling, it's called the Thai alphabet, which along with the tone rules tells you exactly how a word is pronounced. It takes about a week to learn the alphabet fully. Are you seriously criticising a language because it doesn't transliterate well into a completely unrelated language?

**Maanaam** · 15-12-2016, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Headworx

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

I propose.... Far-long... with emphasis on the long...

In kareoke type I would propose fah-lung with a medium tone on the far and a falling tone on the lung. Well that's how my ears hear it. In any case who really cares, I'm just happy to be one

How about pronouncing it with an "r" instead of the lazy "l"?
Fa-Rung.

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