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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from thaiprivateeye on 2:59 pm on Aug. 2, 2005
who when you mutter an Issarn 'low class' obscenity show immediate reaction - a language the true blue upper class TG wouldnt understand !!
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C'mon, don't hold out on us - us noobs are in need of valuable vocabulary!
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:12 am on Aug. 2, 2005
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Mel Gibson
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Thai private eye,,, although I am far from an expert at ISAAN language which I believe is actually LAOS language, it does surprise me how many of the ladies who act so upper class respond with a nod when I ask
" sap mai" as we are eating together.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 8:39 am on Aug. 2, 2005
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SetLaew
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Quote: from thaiprivateeye on 2:59 pm on Aug. 2, 2005
Amazing the number of "alleged" Hi-So, upper class University educated, Bangkok born and bred TGs - who when you mutter an Issarn 'low class' obscenity show immediate reaction - a language the true blue upper class TG wouldnt understand !!
Of course University-educated, Bangkok born-and-bred TG's, career women, what you will, also understand those words. For them it's more of a joke though, not something that takes them back to childhood memories of playing in the Mekong while grandma is making plaa-rah.
An educated New Yorker might understand and even make jokes in a redneck alabama dialect, but it doesn't say anything about their background per se. Same thing.
Then again, to the educated Bangkok woman it perhaps says something about _you_ when they hear you use a low-class isaan dialect obscenity. Because culturally you're not expected to know it (it's not your 'national joke', it's theirs), so they will assume that you've learned it from previous lady friends.
Same with Mel Gibson's thing... pretty much every Thai, from any region of the country, understands "saep mai?" or "saep bo?"... there's nothing surprising about it. After all, it is a language spoken commonly in their country and also a perennial source for humour on TV and movies.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:38 am on Aug. 3, 2005
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Mel Gibson
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SetLaew ( the end).
Your comments are very acurrate, you are correct.
If someone said something in Vietnamese to me and I understood ( yes I can speak a little Vietnamese) would people assume I am Vietnamese,??? I doubt it with my white skin, freckles and blue eyes.
Your point is 100% valid,,,,,,dammmmmmmmm
I hate it when I am wrong, it dents my arogance.
The other thing I have trouble understanding is the opinion of the ISAAN people being " low class" ? smacks of inter country discrimination? I have spent wquite a lot of time in the Buri-ram, maha sarakarm areas and met many wonderful people and NOT all where so poor.
Cheers to knowing when the truth is spoken,,,my shout!! ring da bell
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 4:48 am on Aug. 3, 2005
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thaiprivateeye
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Guys, we are talking a little more than the 'sap elee der' or the 'Jun-nung Hoi' as they would say in Buriram Mel, where incidentaly, so called Hi-so Thais rate a knowledge of Khamen an even lower class distinction than knowing I-sarrn, which also I may add, differs from the dialect spoken in Laos itself.
For the record, my knowledge was picked up mainly through running Hotels in my early days, e.g. the Thong Tarin in Surin- which had over 600 staff, [ 50 in the massage parlour ] and I think about 2 spoke English !
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:29 am on Aug. 4, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from Mel Gibson on 5:00 pm on Aug. 3, 2005
The other thing I have trouble understanding is the opinion of the ISAAN people being " low class" ?
What's difficult to understand about it? Regional class-based discrimination happens in nearly all countries (large enough to support different dialectic regions) - any New Yorker will consider a Southern Boy™ to be an uneducated dork purely based on the manner of speaking; ditto for Germans and those who don't speak hi-german.
Happens everywhere - if you are unfamiliar with it, where are you from?
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:36 am on Aug. 4, 2005
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Brocher
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DD, I believe all Aussies are one class.
Cheerio
PS: As opposed to classless.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:03 am on Aug. 4, 2005
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China Sailor
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Brocher,
Would that be coach, business, or first?
Anyway, DG is from OZ and isn't he in a class of his own???
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:13 am on Aug. 4, 2005
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thaiprivateeye
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as we say in little old NZ
"You can always tell an Aussie -
You just can't tell them much " !!
Pity we will thrash them at Rugby next week as well 
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:45 pm on Aug. 4, 2005
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Mel Gibson
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Yes, definately an Aussie, so have problem with the "class system ".
After all, we are ALL Convicts
As we say in Australia, we can always tell a KIWI, from the lambs hair stuck in his zipper.
BAHHHHHHHHHH
BAHHHHHHHHH
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:09 am on Aug. 5, 2005
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