This title may actually be something of a misnomer as there may be other translations below which are not from Thailand.\u00a0 I thought I was really clever when I came up with the “Thinglish” description and rather less\u00a0so when I later found out that Singlish (from Singapore) is practically a recognised language.\u00a0 The following are quoted as written and any apparent mistakes be them grammatical, spelling or punctuation are not mine….for once.<\/p>\n
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A sign on a toilet door in Phuket airport:<\/p>\n
“On the mend”.<\/p>\n
A sign on a tour company in Bangkok:<\/p>\n
“We are never close”.<\/p>\n
Here’s thinking that the omission of that D didn’t really encapsulate their point.<\/p>\n
As you may know by now I have developed a bit of a thing for comedy slogan t-shirts and the following being sported by a man on a train in Patthalung was no exception:<\/p>\n
“Whoever invented work, didn’t know how to fish.”<\/p>\n
One of the standard signs you would see in Thailand was a fixed sign which read, “accident ahead”.\u00a0 Now, although by no means inconceivable given Thailand’s roads and drivers, I don’t think that such signs were alerting you to continuous accidents but rather slightly tricky stretches of road.\u00a0 As always though the Thinglish was rather nice.<\/p>\n
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A tour company leaflet for boat trips to Koh Tao and Koh Nangyuan had rather nice descriptions of the days out they offered:<\/p>\n
“Koh Nangyuan:<\/p>\n
Koh Nangyuan is Said to be one of the world’s most beautiful\u00a0 islands.\u00a0 If you look in map Koh Nangyuan is a tiny island gattached to Koh Tao like a tail of\u00a0 tortoise.<\/p>\n
As seen in the picture, Koh Nangyuan consists of a large\u00a0 mountain\u00a0 and\u00a0 two\u00a0 smaller\u00a0 ones , it is this spectacular view that known to\u00a0 the world.<\/p>\n
Koh Tao:<\/p>\n
Koh Tao is an\u00a0 island\u00a0 with the most\u00a0 beautiful shallow – water coral reef in the Gulf of\u00a0 Thailand.\u00a0 With\u00a0 the shape concaved like mung bean that makes bays and beaches all over.The bay\u00a0 lines serves as shelter against<\/p>\n
Koh Tao\u00a0 is the heaven for both skin and scuba divers, with beautiful landscape , popular among local and overseas tourists.”<\/p>\n
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Now with all that on offer there is just one choice you need to make which is listed on the itinery on the back of the leaflet:<\/p>\n
“Morning Meel \/ Life Breckfast”.<\/p>\n
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The odd thing about this leaflet is that, if you didn’t read it, it appeared to be very professionally done.<\/p>\n
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To finish is perhaps my favourite t-shirt thus far, this time from Southern Malaysia:<\/p>\n
“Don’t cry because it is over smile because it happened.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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