Guest Astrrro Posted December 16, 2008 Posted December 16, 2008 My Thai teacher has me reading extremely simple short passages meant for Thai children. We focus on the pronunciation rather than the actual meaning of the words though so I'm really not following the story. So we get to next word, the English spelling being chagwow. I figure that since the meaning of many Thai words depends on the tone that it's not one of the few thai words that I actually know. So I ask my arjarn to repeat the word and it sure sounds like the word I know. I ask her what the word means and she says it has to do with flying a kite with "wow" being the kite and "chag" the up and down movement. So I tell her I know that word and we had a good laugh. She asked how I knew but I reisisted telling me that it's been my hobby for 40 years or so. Very clever Thais are with their slang. Quote
