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Gaccha
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It's carpal tunnel syndrome I should think. She can have a quick operation at hospital and he'll be right as rain.
(note I am even more likely to be right as she is female and it is nore common in women)
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How about "พูดไทย - มือใหม่" (Speak Thai - "new hand")
In practice the มือใหม่ designation usually implies that one is "in training" as you see on so many cars that should be avoided.
This works because it is (1) short and sweet (2) it rhymes and (3) it is friendly and likely to get people to speak Thai with you.
Good Luck
NG
I think this risks encouraging what I am trying to discourage. It implies the 'speak thai nitnoi' narrative. This established the farang is aware of a slice of Thai phrases but is going to be/needs to be reliant on the Thai. Still, handy for beginners I think. :jap:
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Something a bit light hearted...
อย่าสะพีก English
สะพีก Thai ง่ายกว่าเยอะ
*That* *is* *funny* .
Thanks--- maybe this on the front and another one (Monsieur Tod's idea perhaps) on the back.
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if you are after comedy....stick to your day job.
Kind of obnoxious that you feel the need to tell everybody that you speak thai so well............
...n all thatI think sometimes that my day job is being a comedian.
I don't say anywhere that I can 'speak thai so well'... I am just trying to preempt the tedious language battle that starts so many conversations here...
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Sorry in advance for another long post. ...
If you're going for the 'governmental edict' look, you've got that pegged already!
ห้ามพูดอังกฤษบริเวณนี้
ปรับเงิน ไม่เกิน ๒๐๐๐
Forbidden to speak thai in this area
Fine not to exceed 2000baht
That is one fine post Tod. Thank you very much for your suggestions. The one above is my favourite. :jap:
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Might I suggest a size XXX-Large T-shirt in order to accommodate your message. What kind of tiny font would one have to use to get this entire message on a T-shirt?
"กรุณาอย่าพููดภาษาอังกฤษกับผม เพราะมันทำให้ผมรู้สึกแปลกๆ
พูดภาษาไทยกับผมเถอะนะ แล้วคุณจะเห็นรอยยิ้มหวานๆบนใบหน้านี้
ขอบคุณครับ"
...That was going to be part of the comedic effect-- make it look like a legal regulation... I think the design of the T-shirt is key.
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A lot of positive responses there-- thanks to you all!
Tod, your translation has made me think. I'll come back to you on what I end up doing. Anyway, since I ahven't got what I wanted...
...I'll do it myself and see if anybody wants to correct... I am particularly interested in what sense/tone it has about it. It is not quite the same as I first set out:"กรุณาอย่าพููดภาษาอังกฤษกับผม เพราะมันทำให้ผมรู้สึกแปลกๆ
พูดภาษาไทยกับผมเถอะนะ แล้วคุณจะเห็นรอยยิ้มหวานๆบนใบหน้านี้
ขอบคุณครับ"
[smiley face]
Well, how about that?...
I like the idea of it sounding verbose as that in itself has a comedic effect...
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...so there I was just looking at the company's brochure for the upcoming Annual General Meeting on 22nd April when I noticed something very very very fishy....
Mr Eric Levine claims to have a PhD from Mannin University in the UK. Except, there is no such University.
...and a monk in Singapore who also claimed to have gone to this fake 'university' was outed in the Singapore's The Straits Times.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20071119-37417.html
"But The Straits Times found on the Web two individuals who claimed to have graduated from Mannin University. One is the head of a group promoting human rights in the Maldives, and the other a man who runs a chain of gyms in Thailand." [the website writes]
Oh... My... God... (having said that, this news is 3 years old so presumably you all knew already...)
My predictions for the life expectancy for California Wow has now shrunk from 3 months to 2 months.
I would now say it is immoral of the staff of CalWow to attempt to sell membership to any member of the public.
And that AGM on 22nd April might be the most exciting entertainment of the day.
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To the last three posters...
Please forgive them Oh Lord, for they know not what they speak.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of free-- and very unsolicited-- advice from minds far wiser than mine come my way in the Thaivisa forum. It is, I suppose a forum, and that does encourage members to chat. But one does have a sneaking suspicion that their advice is that of monolinguals, and they simply have no insight into the travails endured in the language aquisition game. And one cannot help noticing they are infrequent visitors to the language forum.
The advice offered appears to not recognise the very real language war game that is a daily grind of the Thai speaker. My problem is not finding people to speak to, it is putting off people speaking to me. I am certain the T-shirt will have a remarkably good effect just as a badge I found for 'Gap' workers in Japan that said "japanese please" on it saved a lot of 'negotiation time'.
The advice of the last is the most silly. The difference between an advanced speaker and a fluent speaker is vast. But only a fluent speaker has the ability to offer what I am after: "exactly replicate the English tone, style and sense, and have no grammatical errors". I am not after, a kind of okay translation, which is one I can already perform.
So, with that out the way, and with I think it now clear that I never sought any advice but just a translation, I ask for help again from those that can offer it.
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There are also a large number of Japanese and Mandarin books.
The best bargains are had outside, at the entrance to the centre. I bought a couple of Thai comic books for about 10 baht there last year (normally worth 100 baht each).
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The sheer contempt for Indians and Bangladeshis, combined with the utter disgust for the 4 million Burmese migrants to Thailand, probably largely explains the figures, rather than the 10,000 british farang, 10,000 Americans and so on, with work visas.
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I am making a T-shirt with the following, but I want the Thai tranlsation to exactly replicate the English tone, style and sense, and have no grammatical errors. Could somebody really good please translate.
"Please don't speak to me in English; it makes me feel unwelcome. Please speak to me in Thai and then you will see a big smile appear on my face. Thank you."
Thanks :jap:
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Reverse culture shock is very real, and is a recognised problem. The extent you feel it depends on how much culture shock you had coming to Thailand. If you felt very little coming here, you are likely to suffer very badly going home.
But 3 weeks definitely is not long enough. It may be unpleasant but not at the levels of unease that you can expect if you go back for more than a few months. Of course, if only 3 weeks, it can be reassuring to know you hate your home as it will refresh your time in Thailand when you return.
Just be aware of it. Keep yourself busy. And expect your friends back there to treat your time in Thailand as a gap, something to be forgotten. Expect them to show no interest in your time in Thailand and anticipate you will start many sentences "Well, when I was in Thailand..."
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I don't think many in the academic world take the categories of gay/straight very seriously, except as artifacts of the forces of socially constructed identities. The gay category was the undesirable Other of the social world. The 'straight' was a carefully disciplined body kept in line to maintain the economically and socially critical marriage insitution along with the production of the docile economic man. The 'bi' was added later as the categories started to fall apart. And as for women... the mainstream academic opinion is to not put them in any categories-- they are, in a sense, all lesbians... and straight.
A modern test includes categories as 'ambisexuial', 'polyamorous', 'supersexual', heteroflexible and so on. The old categories rested on an intense interest in the male phallus. It could not conceive of wishing to have sex with a man unless there was an intense interest in the phallus. The new categories invite a more bright way of thinking.
If you want to know how to understand your own sexuality then try this:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEJTVHRRRmJkRUpUR3c1VnpxeTZZX0E6MA
The test will reveal how, typically, sexual interests overlap-- it is plausible to be three at the same time.
Explanation of types is here: http://flexuality.wordpress.com/take-the-test/
So when you talk of 8% or 10% or anything else, I recoil with laughter. The figure of men who have sexual interest in other men is around the 70 to 80% mark, but it all depends what 'sexual interest' means. My point is trying to demarcate on a percentage for those interested in men/having had sex with me/wants to have sex with men, simply makes no sense. It ends up a tortuous charade of no insight.
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If there is one thing i've learnt in Thailand, it's never to take for granted that when a Thai says " That's my Brother ", " That's my Sister ", " That's my Aunt " etc etc etc, it generally actually isn't..
I sometimes think that they just say things because they are too lazy to actually explain what the connection with that Person actually is..
My Thai second cousin calls me 'Uncle'.
(*by second cousin, I mean my Uncle's wife's sister's granddaughter. Yep.)
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I want to use about 4 apps for Thai language study. The problem is one of the apps is only available on the iPhone. I do not want an iPhone.
Can I:
1.) Get a smartphone that can use iPhone apps?
2.) convert an app to another operating system?
Thanks in advance.
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Thsi all reminds me of the uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction
that occured at Tokaimura power station in Ibaraki around 1999.I got on my motorbike and went to see the plant (seeing things that make it into the news is my hobby-- just as yours is fishing and sunbathing)...
Anyway, here is a nice chronology of the disgraceful work practices that led to an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction...
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Speedi radiation levels are reported in nGy/h (nanoGray per hour), to confuse matters even more
1 Gray = 1 Sievert. 1000 nGy = 1 μSv
Highest level I saw on that post was Horiguchi, 1240 nGy/h. So in units we are now used to that is equivalent to 1.24μSv/h or 0.001mSv/h, just a little elevated over background radiation.
Crucially, the figures are not up for the Fukushima plant. The two relevant figures are 'under survey'. The Horiguchi is there to monitor the Tokai No2 plant station.
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felix85: crazy scary dramatic news graphics already being used on TV in japan - anyone translate this one? - http://twitpic.com/48fdzq // actually NTV1 may be China tv
It just says 'Japan's Big Earthquake'.
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Does anyone know if there was a trading holt put on them today?
No, I don't know.
But it appears that April 5th is a key date:
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The worst thing about Cali are most of the members. Very few have any sense of gym etiquette. Today, for example, I was waiting for a bench, and one guy saw me, but just sat on the bench for about 10 minutes talking on his cell. After he hung up, he sat there for another minute before getting up and walking off to a machine.
This is one example, but poor gym etiquette abounds there.
I thought that was a thailand thing. Can others describe their experiences at other gyms. I concur with Colonel Bonobo that CalWow members have very poor gym etiquette.
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typo darling, sorry, will try to be more careful next time. Going to bed, soon I think.
Smashing! I thought I was going to have to put in the four hours' face time that someone mentioned earlier... See you there!
SC
That depends on the lady's culture. If SBK is American you've got 10 hours ahead of you. Although, you can take breaks. Say, two 4 hour dates and then a quick meet up at the wine bar and you'll be good to go.
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Can you read? The company is stating that it is trying to find new ways to get financing but is having very real difficulty. There are no more handouts from Major and co. The game is over. It's over. Over. They're gone.
...n all that
...I'll do it myself and see if anybody wants to correct... I am particularly interested in what sense/tone it has about it. It is not quite the same as I first set out:
that occured at Tokaimura power station in Ibaraki around 1999.
If All Foreigners Would Leave This Country...
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Academics will do research depending on the money that comes to them. You need to be aware of the political economy of research. So it is unsuprising to reveal to you that most articles are STI/AIDS orientated:
e.g.
'Lovelorn Farangs: The Correspondence between Foreign Men and Thai Girls'
Erik Cohen; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), pp. 115-127
There are even articles of the reverse (thais sending remittances to Thailand):
'Remittances and ‘Social Remittances’: Their Impact on Livelihoods of Thai Women in the Netherlands and Non-migrants in Thailand', Panitee Suksomboon
Gender, Technology and Development, September/December 2008; vol. 12, 3: pp. 461-482.
It strikes me that academics are far more likely to analyse the anxiety of expats in attempting to generate an identity of belonging and legitimacy via their economic offerings. Many of the farang in Issan are lower middle-class or working class so will struggle with the re-ordering of identity required to be the 'immigrant'.
e.g.
'Western retirees in Thailand: motives, experiences, wellbeing, assimilation and future needs' RW Howard - Ageing and Society, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press
What your asking for is a fairly straightforward economistic approach to the research. I am sure the Thai government has done unpublished research on this. But you don't need peer-reviewed papers to do something that simple. The academics are going to be looking at the social 'plays' and ploys that the women must go through as mostly sex workers in the urban areas and the way they use the money and farang marriage to negotiate/ gain social prestige and so on.