Thursday, August 30, 2007

postscript on thailand

A friend sent me a link to an interesting article from the New York Times: "In Thai Cultural Battle, Name-Calling Is Encouraged". And I thought only Filipinos had really weird and inappropriate nicknames...but apparently not.

The Thai Ministry of Culture surveyed 3,000 children in Khon Khaen and they found that the most popular English nicknames were:

1) Ball
2) Oil
3) Bank

You read it right. Ball. Oil. Bank. I'm not sure which is worse, being called Ball in your old age in Thailand or Honeyboy in the Philppines...

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