David and Bui wrote:The famous น้ำพริกแมงดา (water-bug chili paste) is made from แมงดานา, not แมงดาทะเล.
Eventually David has an accent ถิ่น อี.
Sorry, bad joke again... should stop now.
But found out that I must have a Lao accent. Due to the discussion here I asked myself what means CANCER in Laotian language?
ມະເຮັງ mā héŋ 1 cancer
ma-heng
You'll not believe this but until only 5 minutes ago I was convinced that the term for cancer, Thai, siamese, is โรคแมลง, heard thousand times in hospitals (Isan) but for which I had never a look in a dic
Pirin wrote:Basically, if you don't attend Thai school and take twoThai language courses a year for 12 years, there is a possibility that you don't know ....
You are sooooo right, and shame on me




