How Would A Thai Make Fun Of Generic Farang Speak?

[Jingthing]

If you haven't watched the viral video of UCLA racist girl and it's many aggressive responses, you're in for some fine entertainment.

To see it, just google -- UCLA racist girl youtube

Her peak moment was her characterization of generic Asians talking on cell phones as --

"Ching chong ling long ting tong"

While clearly offensive, we can't act like many western comedians don't make similar stereotypical characterizations quite often about Asians and various other groups of people.

The UCLA racist girl is not a professional comedian though, and she flopped, big time.

Anyway for the sake of fun, if a Thai was trying to make fun/be offensive about how generic farang speak sounds on cell phones, what would it sound like? I don't have a clue, that's why I'm asking ... For fun, of course.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-19/news/29185796_1_ucla-student-student-newspaper-death-threats

Edited March 31, 2011 by Jingthing

[mstribling]

I can't imagine how they make fun of our speech.

I'm sure they make fun of our mannerisms and such, but our speech may be difficult.

But really. UCLA racist girl. I wonder what her Thaivisa name is?

Make her a 50 yr old man. Switch the topic to living in Thailand. Bam Thaivisa YouTube style.

[manarak]

heard it a couple of times, mostly it is mimickry of english with a heavy guttural american accent.

[partington]

A Thai girl did an imitation of farangs speaking Thai for me once--she assumed a completely flat monotonous plodding voice to mimic putting no tones in whatsoever. It was pretty funny as she somehow managed to convey an air of proud self-congratulation while doing it, that I have seen myself in the real culprits..

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[mstribling]

Yeah. I can see them tearing us up when speaking Thai. I bet it was pretty funny.

Can't see them mocking us in English though. " No hab" is funny enough.

[Jingthing]

A Thai girl did an imitation of farangs speaking Thai for me once--she assumed a completely flat monotonous plodding voice to mimic putting no tones in whatsoever. It was pretty funny as she somehow managed to convey an air of proud self-congratulation while doing it, that I have seen myself in the real culprits..

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That's interesting. Because in my view English speakers DO use tones, A LOT! Not to change meaning of words but to convey (sometimes subtle) meaning, most classically for question sentences. So many Thais don't even hear the tones that we do use?

Edited March 31, 2011 by Jingthing

[partington]

A Thai girl did an imitation of farangs speaking Thai for me once--she assumed a completely flat monotonous plodding voice to mimic putting no tones in whatsoever. It was pretty funny as she somehow managed to convey an air of proud self-congratulation while doing it, that I have seen myself in the real culprits..

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That's interesting. Because in my view English speakers DO use tones, A LOT! Not to change meaning of words but to convey (sometimes subtle) meaning, most classically for question sentences. So many Thais don't even hear the tones that we do use?

That's very true, and what's more nowadays people from the US, Australia and even the UK are increasingly using a motiveless rising tone at the end of every sentence, so everything they say sounds like a question even when it isn't.

Only guessing, but maybe to Thais whose every syllable has to have a specific tone the ones we use (especially when trying to speak Thai out of a phrase book, say) are just not frequent enough to register...

I remember the first time I came here, listening to two Thai girls talking and thinking they were having a massive fight, because the rising and falling tones (especially the falling one) sound exactly like the tone changes we europeans use to express anger and frustration. What were you angry about? I asked one of them afterwards , and she looked at me completely baffled (probably having just discussed whether to have pork or beef noodles).

[WebBangkok]

I have heard it and it goes something like this.

ba be ba ha ba be ba, thats what I heard when I was in Hong Kong.

[mstribling]

I have heard it and it goes something like this.

ba be ba ha ba be ba, thats what I heard when I was in Hong Kong.

Good one.

[supaprik]

[Jingthing]

Will that silly girl ever live this down?

In case anyone didn't figure this out, that music version is a play on the original all talking video.

Edited April 1, 2011 by Jingthing

[zzaa09]

heard it a couple of times, mostly it is mimickry of english with a heavy guttural american accent.

I always reckon that American fashioned this nasal whiny tone about themselves, less guttural.