Imagine working here...

[+SayethWhaaaa]

...only plus side is that if you ever got into a fight with a co-worker, you'd have an easy way of disposing of them...

 

http://www.news.com.au/travel/gallery/0,23...07153-1,00.html

[sparkomatic]

I have been to that market many times...you can not imagine the "aroma"

[Longestpants]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqNx7vJLDE

[sparkomatic]

Yep, seen it...I noticed that it had a link for the River Kwai...done it, but an interesting note..."kwai" in the Thai-language means essentially "water buffalo" but its pronounced like "Kwaaaai" as in hold that vowel for about 2 seconds...if you dont, being a tonal language, it means something very different.

 

This I learned the hard way as I told my mother in law that I had been over the River Kwai and really enjoyed riding on it...to which she had a very odd look of concern...my wife quickly corrected me...latter I asked what I had said wrong...she told me that if you dont hold that vowel it is a different word, as in male reproductive organ and not in a nice way.

 

So, be careful of tonal languages and what you ride...

[+whiteknight06604]

Yep, seen it...I noticed that it had a link for the River Kwai...done it, but an interesting note..."kwai" in the Thai-language means essentially "water buffalo" but its pronounced like "Kwaaaai" as in hold that vowel for about 2 seconds...if you dont, being a tonal language, it means something very different.

 

This I learned the hard way as I told my mother in law that I had been over the River Kwai and really enjoyed riding on it...to which she had a very odd look of concern...my wife quickly corrected me...latter I asked what I had said wrong...she told me that if you dont hold that vowel it is a different word, as in male reproductive organ and not in a nice way.

 

So, be careful of tonal languages and what you ride...

 

Now thats a good story.thanks for the warning and the laugh.

[sparkomatic]

needless to say it curbed my enthusiasm to speak in Thai around her, but she took at as a learning experience, she is patient that way