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Ballsburstin
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hmmm, mai kaow jai, khup ...
- Balls
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Posted on: 11:34 am on July 26, 2003
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atypical
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pygmy...
First of all, most if not all of the places you mentioned were in Sukumvit, ie. the farang ghetto. One can live for everrrrrrr there without learning any Thai whatsoever. I'm sure there are countless farangs doing so atm.
What's the real point of learning Thai when mere baht will suffice. Trust me, in those joints, they sure as don't give a f_ck if you can discuss geopolitics in Thai with them.
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Posted on: 2:15 pm on Feb. 11, 2004
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Whisper
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I have but one request for all the brothers when speaking to any Thai people: please do not speak in "pidgin" English with them. Thais understand normal English, especially when we speak slowly and clearly. The only reason they speak pidgin is because it is easier and quicker for them.
Speaking pidgin with them ("you go now?", etc) is both degrading and unhelpful.
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Posted on: 8:00 pm on Feb. 11, 2004
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Ballsburstin
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Whisper,
Not sure if I totally agree with that. I often speak pidgin with my TGF, as it makes it much easier for her. If I do formal tensing of verbs, with all the attendant articles and superlatives, she gets lost trying to keep up with the details. Then she shorts out and her brain turns off -- I've found other Thai people do the same thing (depends on their level of schooling in the language).
I've found we communicate better by me recasting my English to sound the way she might structure things in Thai (e.g., putting "not" in front of verbs to indicate negation of the verb, much like "mai" ). Then every once in a while, I'll give her a lesson in a specific thing in English and use it a lot that day to reinforce it. Since she speaks Thai 99% of the time, it takes her a lot of work to keep her English up to speed.
I think there are ways to speak pidgin that are helpful and respectful.
- Balls
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Posted on: 10:43 pm on Feb. 11, 2004
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NaughtiusMaximus
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Agreed 100%, I have found speaking normal english a lot of the time is not understood, then if I simplify it, it gets accross, my missus has good english on the other hand and I never speak pidgin with her and even then at times she does not understand somethings I say in english, but I do not simplfy it for her, I say cant you understand english and she gets the sh_ts and storms off, only to be found later with her engish book hiding in the toilet rying to figure out what I said.
Many girls find normal english very hard to undrstand, simplifying it actually can get the point accross, as much as it is teaching them the bad way to speak english, we dont always have a spare half hour to explain something 20 times, so a simple 'my friend you' can get things rolling.
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Posted on: 10:49 pm on Feb. 11, 2004
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Smegma
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Me also agree NM and Balls. Me no agree whisper.
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Posted on: 11:36 pm on Feb. 11, 2004
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Kryptonite
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You like my ass  I want you like my ass 
You want lick my ass 
Okay I make ass clean for you.
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Posted on: 12:10 am on Feb. 12, 2004
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FarangBha
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Max, you even speak pidgin Thinglish to me...
Do whatever gets you through the night
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Posted on: 12:28 am on Feb. 12, 2004
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Whisper
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The reason most Thai people (including wives and girlfriends) don't understand English is because their farang partners are quite happy to speak pidgin to them!
If more farangs made a patient effort to instruct Thai people in the proper ways of English then there would be less of "I go shop" and more of "I have been to the shop".
I still contend that the use of pidgin English is not only lazy but both degrading and insulting to the intelligence of Thai people. To speak to a Thai person thus, "where you go?", "you want drink?", "we have dinner?", etc is an absolute disgrace. Anyone who speaks like this oughta be ashamed of themselves.
So I disagree with all the brothers who disagree with me. Nyah, nyah, nyah.
;)
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Posted on: 4:32 am on Feb. 12, 2004
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ringthebells
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if nm WOULD speak english, I COULD understand him.
and he says, I have a funny accent...
rtb
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Posted on: 4:51 am on Feb. 12, 2004
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