What Thai Women Really Mean (Part 1)

November 26, 2011

This is an excellent thread on Thai Visa, about the many cultural and linguistic misunderstandings that litter Thai-foreigner relationships.

Called "Funny things the girls say", it offered examples of some amusing verbal mix-ups and mistakes.

For instance, BIG SPUDS said: When I ask my girlfriend what she is doing she says: "I look TV"
After several weeks of this I told her it was "watch TV"
Ok she said.
Next day I asked what did you do today?
"I watch shops!"

Tatom’s missus showed excellent commercial savvy with this: Once when we lived in the US, we were watching a show where a salesman was selling used cars on TV from a local dealership. He was jabbering away about the great deal offered on a certain car and said to "hurry on down because this car won’t last long". My wife asked me, "why would anyone want to buy that car if it won’t last long?"

Tufty offered this: We’d finished shopping for clothes (party that night) when I asked my girl what she would like to buy for her friend’s birthday and she said she wanted to buy “some cock”

I told her that her friend could probably get that for free.
What she meant to say was a clock

Also from Axel: Over dinner: "The cooker in here no good".

Call him "cook".

"No you wrong, you paint, you are a painter
you drive, you are a driver, you cook, you are a cooker..."

How to fight such logic?

I liked roamer’s double whammy as well:

My wife watching an advert for Siemens mobile phones in the UK..."Oh I like Siemen".

and

In a hotel in Ubon when a bemused friend came down to the bar to say that the maid had propositioned him, knocking on the door and asking "are you lonely?" to which he replied "No I'm ok thanks" and closed the door.

We were a little surprised, good hotel, stayed there many times, never experienced anything like that. Then he said..."the thing was she had my laundry in her hand and when I came back out it was hanging on the door."

Cut to scene of my wife (Thai) choking on her Margarita...when we revived her she said "...the maid was saying: "here your laundry...""

And finally, Jayenram had an excellent one: My wife was cleaning one day and asked the question "where does the Dutch come from?" I said "the Dutch come from Holland". "No", she said "the DUTCH!" I said, "OK, the Netherlands then". "No" she repeated, "the dutch on the furniture?"