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Yes blame the British. They invented this wonderful language and exported it all over the world. Then they changed the pronunciation style which plays havoc with phonetic transliteration (But it sounds bloody good). This is a perfect example of the R and a W being interchangeable when it is not the first letter of a word. Most of the rest of the English speaking world sees those sounds as distinctly different .
The problem is that many country transliterate their languages into English based on modern British pronunciation. Making it impossible to pronounce correctly the words written on signs etc. If you you want to go to Koh Larn (to many it would be pronounced Koe and Larn with a pirates arrh) you have to know to read it Gaw Lahn.
Now can anyone explain to me why in Thai, the Wa When sound (ว) is always translated as a V when Thai's have no V sound in their language, and they actually find it difficult to pronounce the letter V. What is wrong with a W? eg. Sukamwhit, Suwhanaboom... Pretty hard to get it wrong spelled like that.
They didn't invent anything, they just collected most of it from French, german and Latin. :-).
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Yes they are back home.
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Private home owners and smaller rooms for rent places won't or their revenue needs to be taxed.
I agree people shouldn't over stay. I DO think these new laws are over doing it a bit. IMHO.
I think they are doing what it should do as sovereign country. USA and many European countries are harsher in cases of overstaying illegally. No one seems offended of this.
Breaking the law has a prize to pay. That's we all know.
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i decide that i won't ever drink any more alcohol ever...... Don't ask me a reason..There is none...i just intend to be really serious on that matter.....
Thai love to drink..and with my experience they won't take it so good to see me refuse a drink ....
everyone i know in thai do drink .... at least two beer a day seem to be the minimal .....esarn zone ..south zone..or even BKK .....
Personally i find this challenge very exciting and i would like to have some opinion from you on the subject
Were you in that situation ? how did you handle the situation with the local ?
Just you know the wrong Thai people. What you stated is absolutely wrong, there are millions of Thai who don't drink, don't smoke and don't go to bars. So many farangs, live in bubble of their own universe they spend their time in bars and meeting people who are exactly like them. This produce prejudices and ignorance where they start generalizing. No one is shocked if you politely refuse a drink. It's only in your mind.
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It's hilarious and pathetic to read people who are unilingual, have never learned any language and if they did, are unable to make one sentence criticizing people about their abilities in their second or third language. Typical TV ignorant crowd. Thanks god, there is more rational minority here.
Exactly. It's usually people from English-speaking nations who mock others who speak English with an accent due to it being their 2nd or 3rd language. The ironic thing is it is the same people from these English-speaking nations who are either too lazy or do not have the intellectual capability to learn another language..
That's mostly type of people you meet, not only intellectually unable to think, but still thinking same way as colonization army bringing civilization to others. Most are uneducated, full of prejudices, can't learn anything from any human experience and on top don't bring anything positive to the society that is hosting them.
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You are probably using a foreign website, they make money, not the Thai company who deliver the flowers.
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It's hilarious and pathetic to read people who are unilingual, have never learned any language and if they did, are unable to make one sentence criticizing people about their abilities in their second or third language. Typical TV ignorant crowd. Thanks god, there is more rational minority here.
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I know Singaporeans who definitely master English better than you and I am sure of that. Stop being too condescending.Singaporeans teaching englishhahahahahahaha..now Ive heard it all.
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"Theres nothing illegal about the practice, and all three teachers and a representative of the company described what they do as a valuable teaching technique that forces students to speak because they believe their teachers are foreigners who cannot understand Thai."
Actually it is illegal it is called fraud. If the article is correct though and the parents know and the government isn't subsidizing NES, then it is just silly.
As for making the students speak in English, that can be done also just by ignoring students when they speak Thai.
Most farangs pretend being rich while living in meager wages or pensions, pretend what they are really not frequently. In this case they are just trying to force kids to speak in English instead of Thai. You pretend to be too much smart but you are not.
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What is wrong? only facts count. Show them if you have any and put references. Without that, your opinion have no value.
Sorry you're wrong. See my previous posts.Wow. Amazing how people here who don't speak french and have never even heard of him or his work can react, judge etc....
Dieudonne is not Holocaust denier, not anti semitic, he clearly denounced Israel and Zionism. Anyone who criticize Israel is called antisemitic. He is one of the victims of this vendetta.
He worked for long time as duo on with a Jew partner, which shows the big lie about his antisemitic position.
BTW, you should say what I wrote is maybe wrong, it has nothing about me. Why you personalize this discussion?
Your previous posts don't bring any specific facts about dieudonne case. Just generalities and opinions that are yours. Facts or nothing and references please
OK, sorry about personnalisation. Your perception of Dieudonné correspond to how he was maybe 10 years ago, not what he has become since. He started by being antizionist and ended up being antisemitic. I brought some facts in a post I made before and was lazy to repeat again (see previous page of this thread), stating:
"No! This guy has crossed the border between free speech (antizionism) and racism (antisemitism) more than 10 years ago. He has since continuously targeted a group of people (the Jews), not only a state (Israel) and its policy. He has been condemned several times for inciting racial hate, has developped relationships with extreme-right racist movements, etc... For example he has been long linked to Alain Soral, who is famous for doing a "quenelle" (a gesture widely interpreted as: "you have it in the ass"), in front of the Shoah memorial in Berlin When you look at his sketches and the reactions of his public, the tone is clearly racist.
Just a few eloquent cases (From a French court judgment):
About Holocaust:
Dieudonne claimed to know nothing about the gas chambers but said he can organize a meeting for anyone interested with Robert (Rober Faurisson, a well-known negationist in France)
Additionnally, he also declared that he shouldn't be required to judge between "the Jews and the Nazis.", and also: "I don't know what happened, who provoked whom, who stole from whom, I've got my little idea, but... you know."
If you have information showing that what I wrote is innacurate, please bring them to our knowledge (remember I don,t say he's not antizionist, I say he is antizionist + antisemitic. Even pro-palestinian organisations in France have disaproved him.
If you want to refresh your information on him, see:
In particular:
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Can you bring tangible proof of him saying anything antisemitic? Vidéo for exemple.
Btw, valls prime minister déclarés recently, hé will pass a law to make any criticism of Israel forbidden and punished. Not because it's France, everything is right neither good.
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Next concept is "invisible to you antisemitic" concept :-)
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Your post didn't address the long history of political satire in French culture. Some are really brilliant, and yes, they're part of a democratic apparatus.
Sorry you're wrong. See my previous posts.Wow. Amazing how people here who don't speak french and have never even heard of him or his work can react, judge etc....
Dieudonne is not Holocaust denier, not anti semitic, he clearly denounced Israel and Zionism. Anyone who criticize Israel is called antisemitic. He is one of the victims of this vendetta.
He worked for long time as duo on with a Jew partner, which shows the big lie about his antisemitic position.
Dieudonnee is anti establishment. Nothing more...
From a logic point of view: if someone is named falsely 'anti semitic' while he isn't, is in fact applying a subtile form of anti semitism...
Wow, I am always amazed by the creativity of fear mongers. New concept "subtle antisemitism". You are too subtle too. :-)
Can you show me one situation where he was subtlety antisemitic?
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What is wrong? only facts count. Show them if you have any and put references. Without that, your opinion have no value.
Sorry you're wrong. See my previous posts.Wow. Amazing how people here who don't speak french and have never even heard of him or his work can react, judge etc....
Dieudonne is not Holocaust denier, not anti semitic, he clearly denounced Israel and Zionism. Anyone who criticize Israel is called antisemitic. He is one of the victims of this vendetta.
He worked for long time as duo on with a Jew partner, which shows the big lie about his antisemitic position.
BTW, you should say what I wrote is maybe wrong, it has nothing about me. Why you personalize this discussion?
Your previous posts don't bring any specific facts about dieudonne case. Just generalities and opinions that are yours. Facts or nothing and references please
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Wow. Amazing how people here who don't speak french and have never even heard of him or his work can react, judge etc....
Dieudonne is not Holocaust denier, not anti semitic, he clearly denounced Israel and Zionism. Anyone who criticize Israel is called antisemitic. He is one of the victims of this vendetta.
He worked for long time as duo on with a Jew partner, which shows the big lie about his antisemitic position.
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Yes, I would agree.
Just out of my fairly small social circle, there are 5 friends/acquaintances who have left Thailand. Two were here on ED visas and couldn't get them renewed. One was a guy who had lived in Thailand on tourist visas for years and the other two were teachers who didn't have degrees (and who were also on here on tourist visas).
Thailand has made it quite clear it isn't interested in foreigners staying here long term. It wants the two week holiday maker now.
Thaïlande Made it clear that parasite foreigners, working without work permits (as those you mentioned), people on wrong visa and not respecting the immigration rules have to go back home.
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He probably gave them the drone as part of his insane Iran nuclear deal.These are Obama's new best friends.
He didn't give them same brand as the ones given to Israel. Lol
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The best is yet to come, now that Iran feeling much bolder since the Obama has placed his absolute
trust in them and now consider Iran to be a major power broker in in the Mid-East....
Why would US use them everywhere and not Iran?
What American vessels are doing in region in first place?
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The reporter's girlfriend is "by definition a female"
What does that mean exactly?
He is making sure that everyone get it, he doesn't have a ladyboy girlfriend as it's common. :-)
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30,000 baht per month is what you would pay in rent in the west
And that's average what you would pay for one bedroom condo in good location in Bangkok.
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I'd be interested to know how this works here if anyone knows.
1. Thai police ID IP address overseas - Common knowledge to be able to Id the country or even the city of the IP address but not the name of the person or their address.
2. To my knowledge only the IP service provider can divulge the actual name and address of the person IF they have broken the law in the country of the IP service provider or international law (Where extradition treaty exists).
Criticising Thai police is not a breach of international law or law in most countries so therefore they have no way of finding out who the hackers are.
Does that sound correct or have I missed something?
Yes you are missing essential facts. It's has nothing to do with criticizing the police, it's about hacking to court systems. Such actions are considered criminal activities everywhere in the world.
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As stated above by many, they are coming to spend lot of money, and Thais in the industry know that well. Average farang, is spending nothing, getting drunk, living on poor status from a pension or seeking teaching job at low salary equivalent to social security back home. The choice is clear for tourism business. Money has no color, no odor and no religion.
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We hear lots of talk of alcoholism being a disease as opposed to s self-inflicted problem.
Yet we never hear that people addicted to drugs, cigarettes, sex, coffee have a disease. We know full well that people are responsible for those addictions through poor life choices.
The pioneer of "Alcoholism is a disease" was Benjamin Rush, who in the 1800's, without any scientific backing proclaimed that
- Those who drank too much were diseased
- That this should be used as a reason to prohibit alcohol
- That dishonest and political dissention were also diseases
- That being of African-American descent were diseases
This is the basis of alcoholism is a disease.
In addition many are told...
- The disease has no cure
- The disease can only be diagnosed by yourself
- Following a certain program is a remedy for an incurable disease
So what is the damage done?
Well there's a few ways this hurts people
- When they relapse, or if they do not like certain treatment approaches, they can give up because they first learn they are incurable and if the cure doesn't work for them, they lose hope
- They are psychologically programmed to make alcohol
- The concept of having a disease, effectively strips the addict of their personal responsibility - it's not their fault, they have an ailment - which in turn absolves them of responsibility in a relapse and the recovery process itself - hence the "higher power"
Alcoholism is not a disease scientifically speaking because it has no physically measurable symptoms. There is no way to diagnose an alcoholic or test for the signs of the disease in it's development. For instance, if you took a Muslim that had never had a drink, there would be no test that would identify that person as an alcoholic. The only way to tell is when they start drinking - because there is nothing there to see.
The dropout rate at AA us roughly 95%. That's 95% of people that make the first meeting are no longer going after 3 months. Many of these people leave with the belief that they have an incurable disease as opposed to the fact that they have a substance abuse issue. So whilst many people abstain through AA, it is by no means the "last resort" or the only means of treating the addiction.
For those that got to recovery through AA, I salute you.
For those that found it not for them, do not give up hope, you are in the vast majority of people that do not stick with that program. This does not mean you are stuck with something for life. You may well have to accept responsibility for where you are now, that you are not diseased but addicted.
It's urgent to go consult.
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Great group shot - I see watch salesmen, drug dealers, and a couple hackers.
They should add to the list more paedophiles from Australia, england, USA etc....
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As a Brit, I wouldn't expect any foreigner to stand up for God Save The Queen.
In fact, there are quite a few nationalities that we Brits have been rather beastly to, that if they did stand up, it could be construed as disrespectful to their own countries.
Should a Burmese person stand up for the Thai national anthem?
If they have good reason to disrespect a National anthem, then fair enough, dont stand .
But the lady in question , had no good reason.
I did ask her why, and she offered no reason at all
It's none of your business, whatever her reasons are, good or bad ones.
Difficulty obtaining O non-immigrant visa
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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The answer is YES. you can do non o without leaving Thailand while on tourist visa.
I did.