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พยาธิในประเทศไทยต้องการตั้งรกรากที่นี่กับโลกาภิวัตน์และการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์ พยาธิมาจากยุโรป

Then you will have the grammatical differences of the various languages we use. For example, in Thai it's not always necessary to have a verb (predicate) in a sentence or clause as in: "khao suay" = she pretty = she is pretty. It is not necessary to have the verb "to be" at all....

Only annoyed that I don't really know someone's name, not the loong bit. The habit of calling an elder person uncle or auntie is an Asian thing, something I was brought up with in post-colonial Singapore. I can live with that. As far as nicknames go, there are about seventy Thais working in my comp...