English words where there is no Thai equivalent...

[rawlins]

Gingivitus

[rawlins]

Lend...

[somtamslap]

Not so much a word more of a collection of them:

Productive Brain Cell Usage.

[rawlins]

^ must be a translation for that.

Jeezuz

Compyootur

[rawlins]

Cheese on toast?

[somtamslap]

Insomnia

[somtamslap]

Cheese on toast?

Sheez bon kanom bung bing..

[Boon Mee]

Redneck

[rawlins]

Muthafucka

[WujouMao]

Tosspot

[rawlins]

Champions League Final

[nidhogg]

Gingivitus

Don't believe that for a moment. My secretary has a medical Thai-english dictionary on her desk, I will check that out later if I remember

[rawlins]

^ It's probably something like 'Fan yow'.

Aboriginee?

[kmart]

Muthafucka

"Mae yet" I think.. I've been called this on a few occasions.

[Thormaturge]

Lend...

Ad to that "repay" possibly exists but I doubt anyone understands it.

[somtamslap]

"Mae yet"

Other way around "Yet mae"..although 'mae', meaning mother is a tad too strong so they tend to replace it with 'maeng'..

[baldrick]

felch

merkin

bukkake

frot

[BaitongBoy]

"Mae yet"

Not fucking

[nidhogg]

Gingivitus

Don't believe that for a moment. My secretary has a medical Thai-english dictionary on her desk, I will check that out later if I remember

Looked at the dictionary on tmy way out of work today, and indeed gingivitus is there - whole entry for it in Thai. If anyone is desperately interested I could scan and post...

[DrB0b]

Gingivitus

It's spelled gingivitis and the thai word is เหงือกอักเสบ. Looks like this is yet another (of many) threads for those TD members who think (and for some here it probably is) ignorance is an achievement

There is nothing which can be said in English that can't be said in Thai or any other language.

bukkake

That's Japanese, not English.

[Lambik]

Free.

[Neo]

There is nothing which can be said in English that can't be said in Thai or any other language.

Ok professor.. translate these.

* TESTICULATING:

Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

* BLAMESTORMING:

Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

* SEAGULL MANAGER:

A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything and then leaves.

* SALMON DAY:

The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

* CUBE FARM:

An office filled with cubicles.

* PRAIRIE DOGGING:

When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

* SALAD DODGER:

An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

* SWAMP DONKEY:

A deeply unattractive person..

* AEROPLANE BLONDE:

One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.

* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:

The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

* OH-NO SECOND:

That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (e.g. You've hit 'reply all').

* GREYHOUND:

A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.


* MILLENNIUM DOMES:

The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside but there's actually naught in there worth seeing.

* MONKEY BATH:

A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: 'Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!'.

* TART FUEL:

Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

* PICASSO BUM:

A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got 4 buttocks.

[yortyiam]

There's some good 'uns there Neo . Testiculating ! love that one ! sadly it seems i'm a "swamp donkey" .

[Boon Mee]

There is nothing which can be said in English that can't be said in Thai or any other language.

I maintain there is no direct equivalent of 'Redneck' in the Thai language. Closest is 'Idiot' which does not convey the essence of being a 'Redneck'.

Brazil uses 'Caipera' for example...

[nidhogg]

There is nothing which can be said in English that can't be said in Thai or any other language.

Not true there bobby. There are thousands of English scientific and technical words for which there is no Thai equivalent.