sanuksananwangertlukechaiprajow

[claymore]

sanuksananwangertlukechaiprajow


He He anyone know what that is? Merry Christmas in english/THAI. Sorry but I don't have Thai fonts to write it in Thai but that is how Thai is written all hooked together with no spaces.:p

sanuk sanan (happy) wangert (birthday) luke chai (son of) prajow (god)

anybody else got more????????????

[manxman]

sanuksananwangertlukechaiprajow


He He anyone know what that is? Merry Christmas in english/THAI. Sorry but I don't have Thai fonts to write it in Thai but that is how Thai is written all hooked together with no spaces.:p

sanuk sanan (happy) wangert (birthday) luke chai (son of) prajow (god)

anybody else got more????????????
Yours is great too! How do the Thais know when there is a new sentence? And yes, I do have more- see previous thread.

Shee as Boggey erriu. = Peace and Joy to you.

[claymore]

Dave, that is the main problem in learning to read Thai. When a word is the last one in a sentence the last letter changes so you know it is where to break like our period. BUT you have to know how it is correctly spelled in the first place to know if has changed. Very daunting to a beginner. Even worse is uses squiggly writing not our normal alphabet try reading this.....

เพียงตรวจสอบสิทธิพิเศษบนซองแจ้งค่าใช้บริการ
หรือใบแจ้งค่าใช้บริการที่คุณได้รับตั้งแต่รอบบิลเดื อนธันวาคมเป็นต้นไปค่ะ


it's a cut from a site offering high speed internet

[manxman]

Hey, here's an idea,------- let's ship STOOL to Thailand!

[claymore]

He would last about a minute before they sized him up as a mark and he would be penniless in no time.

But no thanks we don't want him here.

[claymore]

Thai gets even worse when you find out there are a bunch of words that can mean 5 different things depending on how you say them.

Cow like the moo cow can mean, rice, white, etc

Mai like my fit can mean no, not, silk, new etc

Ma like hey ma can mean horse, doctor, dog, came or come.

So you say cow cow for white rice or ma ma ma for a doctor for dogs and horses.

And there are a bunch more words that have several meanings.

Or all together cow mai ma can mean rice not come, or new rice has come, or white not dog.

BUT this is one thing where it is sometimes better to read because they are spelt different and if you look at the Thai writing above those little squiggles above certain letters tell you how to pronounce them.

Learning Thai is so much simpler when you have a sleeping dictionary.

[manxman]

Probably even easier than that when she's awake. ?

I think that I would starve there unless I had a translator 24/7.

[manxman]

He would last about a minute before they sized him up as a mark and he would be penniless in no time.

But no thanks we don't want him here.
Sentence #1 was my intent, but I forgot that you would have to put up with him too.

[claymore]

If you stick to the tourist areas you can get along without speaking thai. I have friends that have been here for 10 years and only can say to the taxi driver go left go right and stop here.

It gets even more confusing because the put the adjective last. Like we say that is a red house in Thai it would be that is a house red.

[VillageIdiot]

When I saw the title of the opening post, I thought of Hank Hill's Thai neighbor Khan on the King Of The Hill TV show.... I thought for second though that it could have been of Welsh Gaelic origin.

[manxman]

Well, I guess that we don't have any adventurous members willing to wish us Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in the language of their ancestors.

We'll just have to put up with the mundane

"Silver Bells roasting on an open fire,
Merry, Happy" etc.

C'mon people. Merry Christmas in Chinese, Korean, Viet Namese, Turkish, Armenian (woops, sorry for the proximity), Russian, Samoan, South Sea Island, Hawaiian--------
throw it out there!!!

[VillageIdiot]

I am going to be in San Antonio for Christmas.... Down there Feliz Navidad is the holiday greeting..... My doctor will want to kill me because when I get back from there my blood work is always messed up.

[manxman]

I am going to be in San Antonio for Christmas.... Down there Feliz Navidad is the holiday greeting..... My doctor will want to kill me because when I get back from there my blood work is always messed up.
Y Feliz Ano Nuevo por usted y su familia. Sea cuidado!!!!!

[VillageIdiot]

And Happy New Year to you and your family also.... You sir are a man of many surprises.

[manxman]

Thanks, but Spanish was easy- I grew up in a California Mission town, and had to study a foreign language to graduate High School. Spanish was a natural choice. I don't speak the gibberish of my gandfather, just looked it up on www.learnmanx.com. Claymore, however, seems to be very familiar with the Thai language.

And I meant the "be careful!!!". Don't give your doctor any unnecessary work.

[claymore]

Dave, being familiar with Thai is a necessity or curse for me.... my wife only speaks a few words of english so we have to be able to communicate but every once in awhile it's nice to pull the "sorry I can't understand you routine". BUT when I try it she gives my the stinkeye like Cops will give a dacoit knowing full well that you can understand but not being able to prove it.

[Norg]

Feliz navidad y deseo que todos tengan un prospero aÑo nuevo :D. Spanish I grew up in Colombia.
Merry Christmas and I wish everyone a prosperous new year.

[VillageIdiot]

My wife grew up in Brownsville and her family crossed the border on shopping trips and to take day trips further into Mexico.... All of her siblings except the youngest speak fluent Spanish and have no noticeable accent in English or Spanish.... I attempted to learn it as a kid but I was laughed at so much by the kids that were trying to teach me when I would have to struggle to pronounce a word I'd be embarrassed and finally gave up ..... I understand what is being said and that kind of comes in handy at times.

[claymore]

If you can read this and have read or used most of the vocabulary used in this you are more intelligent than 99% of the worlds population .....and a bit of a nerd.

I got good at writing like this after one of my old bosses told me some report I submitted was too concise and needed some adjectives. I spent many a pleasant evening with the biggest dictionary (BC before computers) I could find looking up obscure seldom used words to include in my reports padding them so a simple one car accident needed extra pages to contain all the obscure words I used.

Word got out of the boss sitting at his desk with his own big dictionary looking up all the extra words that I used so I couldn't slip a nasty word or two into the report and he was missing watching TV. Of course other Troopers heard about it and passed me good words they had found somewhere.

After about a month he said he was tired of looking up all those words so I was free to write my reports in any simple form I wanted ..... never had another report sent back from him................ This rendition of night before Christmas reminds me of those good old days.


Technical Night Before Christmas

'Twas the Night Before Christmas' as written by a technical writer for a firm that does Gov't contracting...

'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood-burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas.

The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.

Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated caller. With his ungulate motive power travelling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by his or her respective cognomen - "Now Dasher, now Dancer..." et al. - guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities.

As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved - with utmost celerity and via a downward leap - entry by way of the smoke passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue from oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in a commodious cloth receptacle.

His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the latter that of the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water.

Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical container. He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese, jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was groundless.

Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the aforementioned articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an abrupt about-face, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected his egress by renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observable chiefly among the seed-bearing portions of a common weed. But I overheard his parting exclamation, audible immediately prior to his vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletide to the planetary constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn."

[manxman]

Grade A+------- truly magnificent!

Your cranial volume is more capacious than one would surmise at first glance.

[EXWRX]

That was truly magnificent! Well played, sir!!:D

[VillageIdiot]

Out of the context of something I already had knowledge of, I would have needed a dictionary for a great percentage of the words used....I enjoyed it.