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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Asking for a milk shake has been known to raise a few eyebrows!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Asking for a milk shake has been known to raise a few eyebrows!


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:30 pm    Post subject: Short words in English vs Thai translation Reply with quote
Could someone please explain why a taxi driver was unable to say Buffalo Bills, coming out as Buffawo Biws, yet my name is pronounced Lobert ?
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It is a problem many of the Straits Chinese have. The 'L' and the 'R' sounds are exchanged.

I remember an old TV program, 'Mind your Language' where in one episode Miss Courtney, the principal, fills in for Mr. Brown. She proceeds to teach tongue twisters, which the Chinese girl Su Li could not pronounce. When Miss Courtney decides to mock her with the interchanged 'R's and 'L's, she speaks it perfectly...
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Short words in English vs Thai translation Reply with quote
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Could someone please explain why a taxi driver was unable to say Buffalo Bills, coming out as Buffawo Biws, yet my name is pronounced Lobert ?


It does my head in too! The Thais can get their little tongues round the 'L' and 'R' sound but, as you quite rightly say, they swap them round. I can sort of understand it when they're translating Thai into English - but my name isn't pronounced Rindaa and Parahandy's name isn't Henlee. The students have fun with 'Red lorry, yellow lorry' when I try to teach pronunciation (mind you, I find it rather difficult after a beer or two Smile ).

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