My dismal attempt at speaking Thai.

[Kiwi306]

Well, a brief background first....

A couple of weeks ago I was getting dressed after a shower in the gym locker room area of Quarter Silom. I saw a young, muscular guy opening the door of the sauna a couple of times and looking towards me. I was thinking surely he isn't cruising me, but I was the only one there, so I decided to take my shirt off and I went into the sauna. I started chatting and then my thoughts were validated. Before long it was hand jobs and kissing. Ok, it doesn't match Olddaddy's fabulous and thrilling (and possibly slightly embellished) sexual encounters, but it was daring and fun for me until someone else entered the sauna.

As I was leaving the sauna, I thought I would try out a Thai phrase on him which I had actually learned the day before.  "Khun loor mak khap." I understood that I was telling him that he was very handsome. A few days later I decided to go to Google translate and repeated the same phrase to discover whether I was speaking Thai well enough to get a correct English translation. I then found out that I had told him that he was very greedy. No wonder he gave me a strange look. How that happened I don't know. A Google search showed me that the Thai word for greedy was loph (Google spelling). Maybe I should just stick to basic Thai phrases in the future 

Anyway, the guy in question is a local who is a gym member and he has excellent English.

[a-447]

We all make mistakes.

I once ordered water (nam plao) in a restaurant and was given a bottle of fish sauce (nam pla).

I now just order by number!

[floridarob]

11 hours ago, Kiwi306 said:

Khun loor mak khap

That's my understanding....  “Law” (handsome) has a low tone and is pronounced more like “loor” than “law”.

I usually say to someone I like ....Khun Loor.... a pause and then Nit Noi.....always gets a surprised reaction, They reply "Only Nit Noi ?"  😝