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Old 07-09-2005, 18:20
Tyfon Tyfon is offline
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Originally Posted by JayBee
The funniest one probably is German, of course. "Khon German" but sounds like "cone yellow man."
One YG in BKK insisted I meet her aunt who was married to a 'yellow man' - curious, I think... Thais are mostly brown -ish so perhaps they do refer to Chinese or Japanese as yellow as we do. Any way I was fully expecting a Japanese husband to appear and was presented with a German...

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Originally Posted by JayBee
They don't have words like Italian, English or American.
Like the French who, according to George Bush, have no word for 'entrepreneur'...
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