I had never noticed the similarity in pronunciation between 'Dirty Toes' vs. 'Doritos', until my Thai girlfriend brought it to my attention last night. She saw that I had a bag of Nacho Flavored Dirty Toes. She said she prefers Original Dirty Toes. What flavor of Dirty Toes do you like?

She pronounced the "s" at the end?

11 minutes ago, The Oracle said:

She pronounced the "s" at the end?

No. It sounds more like 'Dirdy Toe' when she says it. 

Tell her to call them niw thao sokkoprok from now on..

1 minute ago, lanng khao said:

Tell her to call them niw thao sokkoprok from now on..

 

what sort of butchered Thai is that?

4 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

what sort of butchered Thai is that?

Ahh the good old transliteration systems...there are a few  and

take just as much time and effort to learn as it would to just learn

'proper' Thai in the first place 😋

 

And Thai script is only allowed in the Thai language sub forum

so posters can only use a transliteration here..and I understand 

'niw thao sokkoprok'    but would transliterate it as

'new tow sockaprok'    there is no correct transliteration.

59 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

I had never noticed the similarity in pronunciation between 'Dirty Toes' vs. 'Doritos', until my Thai girlfriend brought it to my attention last night. She saw that I had a bag of Nacho Flavored Dirty Toes. She said she prefers Original Dirty Toes. What flavor of Dirty Toes do you like?

She is lousy at reading English then. Do-ri-tos sounds like Dir-ty-tos?

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

She is lousy at reading English then. Do-ri-tos sounds like Dir-ty-tos?

Yes, as expected she's lousy at reading English. Yes again, Doritos does sound like Dirty Toes. Now, tell me your favorite flavor of Dirty Toes, and then I will be delighted to argue with you. 

2 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Yes, as expected she's lousy at reading English. Yes again, Doritos does sound like Dirty Toes. Now, tell me your favorite flavor of Dirty Toes, and then I will be delighted to argue with you. 

No argument needed. Doritos DOES NOT sound like Dirty Toes to me, and I guess, many members on here. You'll be telling me that Pad Thai sounds like Tad Pie next.

Why did you not correct her?

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

You'll be telling me that Pad Thai sounds like Tad Pie next.

I would never tell you that.

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

Why did you not correct her?

How do you know I didn't? 

23 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

I would never tell you that.

How do you know I didn't? 

OK, bye

 

Only realised after about a year that my wife's references to bamboo dogs dying in the summer heat were French Bulldogs.

Can remember talking to my wife once when she was telling me about her friends boyfriend who was loaded. I said 'What does he do for a living?'

 

She said 'He's a Pirate'.

 

I said 'really? like a wooden leg, eye patch and parrot on the shoulder pirate?'

 

She said 'WTF you talking about? He pirate, he fly plane'. 

i remember in the beginning, when i only knew a couple of words in thai, declining my gf frequent offer to buy me kai tood, which i thought she meant chickens ass

Sour feet here 

 

Smelly feet are worse...no matter how you pronounce it...

 

This being said, it's quite intriguing to see foreigners in Thailand,  making fun of the locals and their pronounciation. 

Aussies have an expression 'F....ng Hel.!'

 

I used to say it a bit, then one day Wifey said "You go and f..k in H.ll".

 

So all the time when I said it, Wifey thought I was telling her to 'f..k in he.l'.

 

Not very nice but we talked about it and boh had a big laugh. 🙂

17 hours ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

'Dirty Toes' vs. 'Doritos'

Dirty toes are actually edible compared to toxic Doritos

2 hours ago, carlyai said:

Aussies have an expression 'F....ng Hel.!'

Er, excuse me. We Brits invented it. 

18 hours ago, KannikaP said:

No argument needed. Doritos DOES NOT sound like Dirty Toes to me, and I guess, many members on here. You'll be telling me that Pad Thai sounds like Tad Pie next.

Why did you not correct her?

 

5 hours ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

This being said, it's quite intriguing to see foreigners in Thailand,  making fun of the locals and their pronounciation.

You sound like a middle aged grouch.  In my opinion, a sense of humor is important when learning a language. Everyone makes mistakes. My girlfriend makes fun of my Thai far more than I make fun of her English. We laugh at ourselves, and each other, without malice. Why is that 'intriguing' to you? 

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Er, excuse me. We Brits invented it. 

Yes you probably did ' fukin ell'.

22 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Yes you probably did ' fukin ell'.

Susie Dent's Origins of Swearing confirms it. Have a look on You Tube, it is so funny.

 

3 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Susie Dent's Origins of Swearing confirms it. Have a look on You Tube, it is so funny.

 

Loved 8 out of 10 cats....probably couldn't do it now.

7 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Loved 8 out of 10 cats....probably couldn't do it now.

It is still being repeated here and there. Made when Rachel was fit as a butcher's dog.

 

The Countdown version was actually first done in 2012 when RR was 25 ish.

8 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

It is still being repeated here and there. Made when Rachel was fit as a butcher's dog.

 

The Countdown version was actually first done in 2012 when RR was 25 ish.

Stunning, smart girl. 

How did she do that maths in her beautiful head?

Yes see a few repeats on YouTube.

13 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Stunning, smart girl. 

How did she do that maths in her beautiful head?

Yes see a few repeats on YouTube.

She only does THREE numbers per show, that is 15 per week as they record 5 shows a day. only if the contestants cannot do them.

She is (was) very fit until the Ruskie came along.

BUT she is a Man Utd fan, shame.

Don't need repeats. It is on Ch4 at 20.10 Mon-Friday, and repeated the following morning.

On 10/21/2025 at 9:57 AM, ColeBOzbourne said:

You sound like a middle aged grouch.  In my opinion, a sense of humor is important when learning a language. Everyone makes mistakes. My girlfriend makes fun of my Thai far more than I make fun of her English. We laugh at ourselves, and each other, without malice. Why is that 'intriguing' to you? 

I still joke with my land lady of almost ten years.  Same sort of thing. Although, in her case, English is her fifth out of the six languages she learned and pretty much hasn't used it in almost twenty years since she returned from Hong Kong.  Thai although now by far my second, was the third one I'd learned to any serious degree. 
It's been quite the challenge, me also being deaf in my right ear and partially deaf in my left.  The mask mandate during The Plague pretty much put any learning from the locals on hold as I couldn't hear them nor lip-read.
Horrendous pronunciation back from 2015 to 2018 had her leaving out words as she said if I'd say them incorrectly, they would undoubtedly sound like some sort of epithet for genitalia. LOL

But, over the years, we identified words which we *knew* the other couldn't say. 
I still can't do the "ng" at the beginning of words properly.  So to differentiate between a ngu and a noo, a make a snake movement with my arm, or form a poor rat out of my hand.    Of course, context covers up any accented stuff ups.  The ladies at the markets, the broader family, the Seven and Mini Big C staff, farmers, and the local police all understand me and they're happy enough.

After the grandmas at the markets realised I wasn't going anywhere, they tried to help me  by identifying fruit and vegetables.  I'd then hone the pronunciation at home using google translate, or with my landlady.  And get graded the next time from my "teachers".

As I stated, my hardest words are those beginning with "ng".
The ones that really stump her ( I suppose they still do) are "Thrust", and "April".

Best f up?  I thought the things in the plastic bag in my fridge were "field snakes" (which I'd never heard of) but were "field rats" hence her confusion when I asked to cook them like I did as a child: beheaded, cleaned, wrapped in foil and put into coals then the skin comes off as you peel the foil away and you pull the spine out like a fish/eel. 
"What about the hair?" 
"They don't have hair."
"Rats have hair."
Aaahhhhhh!  LOL .  Phad Gaprow Noo it was, then (crushed bones and all)