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Doesn't it mean white ling?  

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Neither, or both, it's Romanized approximation. R's and L's are pretty much interchangeable.



Like a lot of words it's exact origin is often lost. I heard the "French" theory but it's not a proven fact.



I recall a discussion with some Thai boys about the word Farang. I asked what's a farang, you farang. Are Japanese farang? no, nepon. The another said farang nepon. I asked about Blacks and they all agreed, farang but then added farang see dam or farang kon afraican. So, I asked why is a pototo(e) a manfarang, no one knew.



 

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You need a rest, m'dear.



 "ma seeda" is the equivalent in the NE dialect. In the 70's I heard that farang meant "white monkey" - it can be used as an insult, but it depends on how it is used.

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Why are you on this board? Perhaps you should head on over the the Family Research Council board.

 

I recently asked an average American if he could give me the name of any head of State from Europe. The only one who came to his mind was the Pope. I talked to him about Madrid: he did not know it was the capital city of Spain.

Given the current state of affairs, I wonder how many of us could answer correctly the number of planets in our Solar System, let alone name them.

I still can't resist correcting the moron above who posits "gaijin" in Japanese means "white trash". The correct characters, romanised, say 'gaikokujin" which simply means "foreign country person" - no 'white' no 'trash'.

Is jumping to the unsupported translation, simply a freudian slip by that poster?

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only white people are racist

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Racism isn't a trait of one ethnic group or another, but is rather a reflection of one's lack of intelligence and poor upbringing. I think I’d rather not be a part of The Colonel’s chorus line (Surfcrest not in attendance).

That was a good stab at baiting, or should I say bate-ing.

 

I'm curious; does the average Thai know what an ATM card is?  I've never seen a Thai boy use one.  They seem to lack the pecuniary obsession of their western counterparts.  Just one of the reasons why I love Thailand.

When I read Gerbert's original post I presumed it was a gesture towards the idea, which I have read about elsewhere, that Thais, even educated ones, tend to be fairly inward-looking. As other posters have pointed out in various ways, asking such questions is a pretty heavy-handed means of investigation; reminiscent of proposals aired in the UK recently for drawing up a questionnaire to establish whether members of ethnic groups were suitable for 'integration' into our great society - questions about the the Royal Family, cricket, British history, that, it was pointed out, many native Brits would have difficulty in answering.



But, to lighten matters a bit, a story that has stayed with me, though I'm not sure where I read it - perhaps on this forum? A Thai taxi driver, or such, who said yes, he knew about Christmas and our Buddha, Father Christmas. It being November, he would find nothing in Central London to disabuse him of the idea that we worship Father Christmas; but he might note that we do not burn incense to Father Christmas - just money.

Edited by: piston10 at: 6/11/05 6:22 am

A teacher at St. Paul's school in the Bronx wrote an essay compiled from lines in student papers compiled by history and English teachers from around the world.  Almost as funny as some of the things one reads here.



The History of the World:

Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.  Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brothers birthmark.  One of Jacopb's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.



The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies,  They traveled by Camelot.  Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread; which is bread made without any ingredients.  David was a Hebrew king who fought the philatelists.  Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.

The Greeks invented three kind of columns: Corinthian, Doric and Ironic.  The mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Styx until he became intolerable.  In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java; the reward to the victor was a coral reef.  Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who died from an overdose of wedlock.

Eventually the Ramones conquered the Greeks.  Nero was a cruel tyrant who tortured his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

In the middle ages, King Harod mustarded his troops before the battle Hastings.  Joan of Arc was cononized by George Bernad Shaw.  The Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.  William Tell shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

In the Renaissance, Martin Luther King was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papaya indulgence; he died a horrible death; being excommunicated by a bull.  The painter, Donatello's, interest in the female nude made him the father of the Renaissance.  Gutenberg invented the Bible, Sir Walter Raleigh invented cigarettes and Sir Francis Drake circumcised the globe with a 100-foot clipper.

Queen Elizabeth's navy defeated the Spanish Armadillo; William Shakespeare wrote about Romeo and Juliet: a romantic couplet; Miguel Cervantes wrote "Donkey Hote;" John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost," then his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained."

Christoph Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing the Atlantic.  His ships were the El Niño, La Piñata and the Santa Fe.

One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was that the English put tacks in the tea.  Benjamin Franklin invented electricity by rubbing cats backward; he died in 1790 and is still dead.

Abraham Lincoln's mother died in infancy.  He signed the Emasculation Proclamation.  In 1865 Lincoln got shot by an actor in a moving picture; his name was John Wilkes Booth--This ruined Booth's career.

Gravity was invented bu Isaac Walton.  It is chiefly noticeable in Autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.

Bach and Handel were famous composers.  Handel was half German, Half-Italian and half-English.  He was very large.  Bach died from 1750 to the present.  Beethoven was so deaf that he wrote loud music; he expired in 1827 and later died from this.

Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy; Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis; Madman Curie discovered radium and Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.



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Yumsuey; many Thai boys know how to use ATM's--But many others will not need to learn until they are past their 'shelf-life.' Until then there will always be someone willing to do it for them.











    

 

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