LOL in Thailand
Posted: December 6, 2011 Filed under: Internet Slang | Tags: netlingo, Pattaya, Thailand 3 Comments »
I’ve had a very long relationship with Thailand, most specifically The Pattaya Orphange (www.pattayaorphanage.com) from whence I adopted my son many years ago and where I still have strong ties. To that end a couple of the ‘kids’ (I’m using that term kinda loosely as they are no longer teenagers) who I have family ties with but still live in Thailand, are my Facebook friends.
Well it has taken me ages to realise what 555 means on one of their posts – for some reason I thought it mean’t ‘fabulous’ or ‘great’ (misinformed by another Thai on that one!) Well it doesn’t, it is their version of lol.
Why you might ask…..well: in Thai the number 5 is spoken as ‘ha’, so putting 555 is saying ‘hahaha’, so they use it for lol. How much do you love that??
And just because:
1 – Nhong
2- Song
3-Sam
4-See
5 -Hah.
I will be visiting the Catholic Orphanage of Pattaya at Christmas, here they are if you’d like to visit online: http://www.thepattayaorphanage.org.
I love this post and I will be sure to use 555 liberally. Thanks for an excellent source of IT help, I will be sure to bookmark your page.
regards
M.
Hm … there is a problem when using html-keywords and symbols…
Try it once more:
[opening angle bracket]title[closing angle bracket] [opening angle bracket][forward slash]title[closing angle bracket]
sorry.
Hi Andreas, I will get onto it.
cheers
Angela