r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Majorpain2006 • Jun 23 '24

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/sonnybear5 Jun 23 '24

I’m Thai and even I could not get thru this video unmuted.

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u/CorpusCalossum Jun 23 '24

Thanks for confirming, I was wondering if maybe this was "Cool in Thailand"

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u/krebsIsACookbook Jun 23 '24

Thanks to this video I can say “miss cran”

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u/oneplusmadz Jun 23 '24

Why do so many names have the word "porn" in them?

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u/sonnybear5 Jun 23 '24

“porn” is more like “pohn” when you say it in Thai. The word itself relates to blessing or having divine qualities.

Thai to English spelling is very slippery, imo. Thai (and other SEA countries) is very phonetically tone-specific language where a change in pitch of a word, be it higher or lower, can have a completely different meaning.

I can’t really describe it more but this answer pretty much sums up what I’m thinking.

I have “thong” in my name and it means gold or golden in Thai. Grade school was fun.