radioman Posted May 19, 2009 Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 Another good one is squirrel. Maybe a thread suggestion, English words that Thais cannot pronounce. Actually most words with TH CH SQ I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaomaiminam Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 Also most words ending with an "s" in English. The Thais will either drop the "s", as when they say the 3rd person singular (present tense) of almost any English verb, or they will make it an ending "t"/"d" sound. On a shopping trip, GF asked me what I thought of "adidet" (accent on the beginning "a")? Took me a little while until I figured out she meant the brand name "Adidas". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 not just words ending with s also l, r, t (at least not hard), th, ve etc. and then a lot of vowel are pronounced with a sound they know: customer = castoma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Is the bottle-botten/Bhumibol-Bhumibon thing somehow related to the choice of consonants used, where one combination of consonants in written Thai will always result in the (charming, to my ear) "n" sound, while another combination could result in the English 'L" sound? Someone wiser and more practiced than I could surely explain exactly how this works, I suspect - it's not just because they can't pronounce the words or are lazy, there's a structural linguistic element, no? YimSiam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyinEwa/Perv Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 The Thai people I've dealt with cannot pronounce the words correctly. It's not that they are lazy, so much, it's probably after generations of doing it, that's how they're taught and what they know. IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyebee Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 On the other hand, how many of us can pronounce Thai words correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Is the bottle-botten/Bhumibol-Bhumibon thing somehow related to the choice of consonants used, where one combination of consonants in written Thai will always result in the (charming, to my ear) "n" sound, while another combination could result in the English 'L" sound? it is pretty simple; in thai the vowel r and l is pronounced as n, if it is at the end of the syllable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 So there are no Thai words that end with a final consonant sound r or l? Ah well, what are they missing anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekyboy Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 and what about Lollipop , they say ROLLIPOP ! sa- taw -bellies is the 1 that gets me .always makes me larf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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