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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDinesh D'Souza "Thighland," not "Tai-land," is how English speakers around the world say it"
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Wow.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Kaleva
(36,312 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Response to Kaleva (Reply #25)
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Budi
(15,325 posts)It was not intended to be a repliy to #25
Too late to delete so I'll just leave this fyi.
Thanks.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)In Thailand they say "tie", not "thigh".
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)dumbass
Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)This reminds me of the RW's defense of Trump calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas".
They claimed that Pocahontas, as a historical figure, was a good and noble personage.
Therefore, calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" is actually a compliment.
In other words, Trump was clearly paying Warren a compliment and no one has the right to be offended by it, unless you are a sniffling snowflake.
What's scary is Dinesh D'Souza is considered an intellectual in the Conservative Movement.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)pronounce Yosemite?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)who doesnt know as much as Trump. There are so many of us!
marybourg
(12,633 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,758 posts)The marks will twist themselves into the strangest knots to make it seem Trumps fuck ups are really not fuck ups. Just weird.
Bev54
(10,053 posts)who pronounces Thailand as thighland, any of you?
House of Roberts
(5,177 posts)English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
JI7
(89,252 posts)becsuse of the accents.
So pronouncing Thailand as it should be is actually easier for them than if it was pronounced like thigh.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Its an aspirated "T"
Thai
Town
Teacher
and not un aspirated "T" as in
Cut
Cat
Curt
There is no such TH diphthong sound in the Thai language.
Trump even admitted his error when he pronounced it correctly a second latter
PatSeg
(47,506 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)The H is silent
KG
(28,751 posts)Paladin
(28,265 posts)Pronounced "D'Suckhole" in my house......
malaise
(269,063 posts)It was hilarious
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)lame54
(35,294 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Has this shitstain been deported back to India yet? If not, why not?
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)I worked with a woman from Thailand. She never pronounced it like that. Also never heard any of my friends in many countries the world over pronounce it like that.
Luz
(772 posts)know them by their idiocy.
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)doc03
(35,349 posts)soon, he always does?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Dinesh as "Dipshit"...
Danmel
(4,916 posts)When I order Thai food, it's usually green coconut curry chicken, larb and pad thai.
canetoad
(17,169 posts)STFU about how it's pronounced in Australia.
Love the kookas!
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)Where I come from they pronounce Dinesh as Fuck-wad.