I can't read Thai anymore, so no idea what that says. All I get is, "Thai latter b047 Thai ltter b32 Thai letter b18", and so on. Means nothing to me.
puut mai dai fung mai dai mai kao jai loey (transiteration systems suck)
can't speak, can't understand when spoken, don't understand at all
it gets a good response when you have just silently been listening to a Thai conversation that they then think you have understood!
bkkguy
That sentence makes no sense at all. Go say it in the streets, and I bet you get a "deer in the headlights" stare.
b
there is also a Thai idiom "snake snake fish fish" (ngu ngu, plaa plaa) which literally translates as "a little bit", should also get a good laugh as you seem to know idiomatic Thia, but my "ngu" pronunciation sucks so it usually fails!
bkkguy
I don't know what the hell "fung" means, but the sentence basically translates into, "I can not speak fund I can not".
Again, I don't know what "fung" is.
Thinking about it, there isn't even a F sounding character in the Thai alphabet, so not sure where you got that sentence from.
Ok, then what does "fung" mean?
You're saying "can not" twice in the same sentence, so at the very least it's a double negative. If people aren't looking like you as an idiot when you say that, then they're just being polite and respectful.