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(07-09-2014 02:22 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

^ Khun yaak dtai mai?!

Actually, I always said it with a different pronoun that sounds something like "Mueng" instead of "Khun."

I think "mueng" is a really impolite way to address someone, but not entirely sure. It could just be from Chiang Mai dialect too. I saw a guy say this phrase in a Thai movie one time while holding a gun to some monk's head, and I started hollering it at my Thai friends when we were drinking, and it always got a laugh.

Yea, "Mueng" is just the (very) impolite version of "khun".

Cursing in Thai around friends when you barely speak it always gets a laugh, most of the first words I learned here outside formal classes at the Uni were curse words. "Mueng pen hia rai wa?" "Arai kong mueng wa?"

I always make sure to remember phrases that could be useful in gaming/making people laugh/etc. Like lines from popular songs "Mia mee, mia p'tong maa...", or pop culture/memes "Mai mee arai maak!.

My Thai is just decent, but if I'm teasing a girl, ordering food, or calling someone a cunt you'd think I was fluent.