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I remember a quite a few of them, I guess as with the language itself it will come as second nature with time. Anybody had dreams in Thai before?

Well I am fairly new to this forum so I would not know of this member who got the boot! Frog seemed so passionate about respecting Thai culture and Buddhism, so I just made that assumption. Back to topic anyways 'yaak' and 'ow' both mean to want something, but 'yaak' (low tone) comes before a verb, ...

How do you guys get on with memorizing and using all of the different classifiers related to their nouns? The Thai language seems to use them a lot more than English does.

Well it is obvious to me at least he/she is Thai and feels that his/her country is being threatened or changed my western influence. Seeing as you are a buddhist frog, you should accept that all things are impernanent and subject to change. Some things are beyond our control, others are not. The thi...

That is true, but there is skilful compassion and then there is also unskilful compassion, which is also known as idiot compassion. The buddha taught a lot about the middle way, sometimes being blunt and tough is skilful compassion. However, that has little/nothing to do with what has been said ^^^

kee-neow has already been done :p I think we are almost out of options. It has been noted that basically kee means waste and you can apply it in many ways. However, I do not understand how 'kee-ow' translates to what it does :/

Another one I just heard from my GF, kee-ow hehe

Only annoyed that I don't really know someone's name, not the loong bit. The habit of calling an elder person uncle or auntie is an Asian thing, something I was brought up with in post-colonial Singapore. I can live with that. As far as nicknames go, there are about seventy Thais working in my comp...

And yes, Thais tend to address complete strangers with mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather etc. Female friends refer to each other as sister although they are not related in any way. Shows respect in a way and I do not see the annoying part? Yes, agreed. But it does result in a bizarre tendency to hav...

lol, It is funny because I have a friend who a bit older than me, she is called Nong, so I have to call her Pi-Nong. As nong means young/small in relation to age, it is kind of paradoxical to call her Pi-Nong hehe. I don't know what tone you use with the 'ta' but I only know it in Thai to mean 'if' ...

Yea I thought that it was only to be used in an informal conversation by guys. I never noticed that only thai women use their own names to refer to themselves o_O ooops. Thanks for that, it has been a while that I have been using my own name. Anyway, most thai's are too lazy to even use 'I' or their...

So I have noticed for a while now that when Thai guys are talking and they come to say 'I' (which as you may know is not often within an informal conversation), they will use 'chan' instead of 'pom'. The main way which is weird to westerners is that Thai's refer to themselves using their own name. I...

buksida wrote:My kids use it all the time .... ขี้แตก

Nobody has mentioned ขี้โกง (kee gong) which means to cheat or swindle.

I was going to get to that one :p My partner often says it when we are play fighting because I am 'not fair' lol.

The kee game hehe. There is also 'het kee kwai' the magic mushrooms that grow in buffalo dung.

lol@ 'kee maak'! You could always just say 'tong siia' for a some bad bowl movements

kee fon - dirt of some kind


I guess he meant 'kao neow' as it has been said, the sticky rice. Gotta love kao neow, ma-muang and gatti!