Not 'Thigh-land': Thais amused at Trump's slip

[snoop1130 12,633]

Not 'Thigh-land': Thais amused at Trump's slip

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump wears a protective face mask due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic as he talks with workers while touring a Whirlpool Corporation washing machine factory in Clyde, Ohio, U.S., August 6, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Citizens of Thailand were surprised and bemused on Friday to discover their country’s name had become a social media meme after U.S. President Donald Trump mispronounced it.

 

Though Trump quickly switched to the correct pronunciation, people quickly seized on the slip to mock the U.S. leader online as #Thighland became one of the top-trending Twitter hashtags in Thailand with 32,000 tweets and in the top 25 in the United States with over 156,000, according to the tracking site Twitscoop.

 

The English-language online newspaper Thai Enquirer changed its Twitter name to "Thigh Enquirer" early Friday morning and ran an article on the mistake. TNN Online also reported the news here as did Thailand's Voice TV, and Matichon newspaper.

 

One online joker wrote that Thighland was located on a cartographic leg between “Kneepal” and “Ankola”.

 

The American president made the gaffe during a speech in Ohio while explaining how his trade war with China had forced factories to move production to Southeast Asian countries, Vietnam and, as he pronounced it, “Thi-land”.

 

In the next breath, Trump got it right, saying: “Thailand and Vietnam - two places that I like their leaders very much.”

 

The meme escalated when conservative American pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was pardoned by Trump after a conviction of violating campaign finance law, argued in a series of tweets that “Thighland” is in fact the correct pronunciation.

 

Rikker Dockum, a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College, told Reuters that Trump’s second pronunciation - with an aspirated hard “t” instead of a soft “th” sound - is the widely used one in both Thai and English.

 

“Among English speakers around the world, this is not a disputed pronunciation,” he added.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-08-07

 

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[2 is 1 2,851]

Sometimes it's really tight land . What i have notice , girls are! From down low.

Edited August 7, 2020 by 2 is 1

[Dumbastheycome 5,700]

Th-ick ?

Maybe distracted  by thoughts of his  "Press"  Secretary?

Sigh !  Thigh ! Tie ? Thai? Who knew  that?

It is what it is !

 

[CorpusChristie 7,887]

Slight miss pronunciation , quickly corrected , quite funny really , no doubt the Anti Trumpers will make a big issue out of it 

[thequietman 11,217]

24 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Not 'Thigh-land'

I dunno!  He's not far off with his comment.

[YetAnother 21,090]

23 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Citizens of Thailand were surprised and bemused on Friday to discover their country’s name had become a social media meme after U.S. President Donald Trump mispronounced it

multiple sides to this: yes he is an idiot, yes he used a mildly sexual descriptor , which is what most of the west thinks of thailand

[Justgrazing 20,403]

22 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

#Thighland

Given what Thighland is famous in particular something that doesn't officially exist then maybe the President isn't too far of the mark .. 

[johnray 536]

The mask is cutting off oxygen to his brain.

[JeffersLos 2,366]

Perhaps he saw the video of Obama meeting Yingluck. 

[ChouDoufu 4,944]

with all the recent talk and well-wishing of ms. maxwell, perhaps his mind was preoccupied with mr. epstein's wonderland.

[ChouDoufu 4,944]

38 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

In the next breath, Trump got it right, saying: “Thailand and Vietnam - two places that I like their leaders very much.”

ah, democracy!

[ThailandRyan 18,214]

10 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

Perhaps he saw the video of Obama meeting Yingluck.

https://imgur.com/u6eXbmW.jpg

 

Did not make Michelle happy 

Edited August 7, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[jmccarty 886]

Not nice to poke fun at idiots!

[vermin on arrival 1,461]

"The meme escalated when conservative American pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was pardoned by Trump after a conviction of violating campaign finance law, argued in a series of tweets that “Thighland” is in fact the correct pronunciation. "

 

LOL!

[ThreeEyedRaven 8,834]

Possibly just a Freudian slip, where the mouth comes out with what the brain is really thinking of.

I had it once, ordering a ticket at the train station to Tooting, and the girl had a lovely pair of knockers and I asked for a ticket to Titting.

Told my mate about about it who told me he had had one that morning too. Meant to say to the wife at breakfast, "please can you pass the milk."

Actually came out with, "You miserable <deleted> shrew! You have ruined my entire life!"