FUN WITH THE LANGUAGE AND THE THAI NATIONAL ANTHEM STORY!
F FUN WITH THE LANGUAGE The huge billboard on the expressway to Bangkok’s old Don Muang airport always made me chuckle. I could picture the Thai workers diligently putting it up in the hot sun, but not really knowing too much about its message. The billboard graphic was of a muscular guy standing proudly in his underwear, six pack tensed and with the caption below reading “ MEN SUNDERWEAR”. For several years I entered my apartment block where a sign on the front door asked those who entered to be “QUITE PLEASE”. This was a sign brought from a business supply store and I can only imagine that several thousand of these erroneous signs were sold around Thailand. I often wonder why many of these businesses didn’t have the English checked before putting signs up in public, like the restaurant near my home with the street sign out front saying “BOND STEET STAEK HOUSE” and the donation box for stray street dogs announcing “MEN’S BEST FRIEN...