Another Nick Name

[Guest]

How's about the name "Pie" could be "Pai"

but it is not "Bai".

Anyone ?

[shotover]

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Originally posted by Pom_Jao_Choo:

How's about the name "Pie" could be "Pai"

but it is not "Bai".

Anyone ?

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I met a girl whose id said "Lumphai", but went by "Pai". Not sure what it means.

[Guest]

My TGF gave me the name RAT...

I'm hoping that there is a DIFFERENT context in LOS... perhaps it's a honorific title... NOT!

--UPSer

[Guest]

Originally posted by UPSer:

"My TGF gave me the name RAT ... I'm hoping that there is a DIFFERENT context in LOS..."

She probably translated her Thai name "noo" (mouse) into English. It's actually considered quite a neat name.

Or maybe her name is "Raet", rhino? Though I've never heard it used as a name, only as a kind of insult, as in "chaa muean raet", "slow like a rhino" (though they can be bloody fast sometimes), or "kee-giat (lazy) muean raet".

[Guest]

You have to listen carefully and repeats names back to the people when they tell you, see if what you say sounds the same as what they say.

The thai alphabet has a

1"b", as in bat

3"p's" (one high tone)as in pat

and

1 "pb". an explosive "pb" as in ball. (Oz accent) Sometimes it's more "b" than "p" as in the thai word for "go". A sound which is halfway in between.

To hear the difference between

bai.. (a counting word)

and

pbai.. (go)

ask a thai

[ September 12, 2001: Message edited by: mushroom ]