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A PhD student at Bangkok University wrote an entire dissertation on Thai smiles. Interested observers were welcome during the defense. I kinda regretted being unable to find out how the exploration went. At my own thesis defense (not about smiles though), a Thai government representative smiled a certain smile over a brief conference with my advisors about addressing RQs and hypotheses on chapter 1. I knew it to be "don't-insist-or-your-advisee-is-in-trouble" smile. That smile is just one among several kinds of smiles that Thais use. Here are 13 others:
(yim - thai word for smile)
1. Yim tang namtah - used when very happy; eg. I've-won-the-jackpot smile
2. Yim cheun chom - the smile used when impressed with or when one admires someone
3. Yim sao - the smile used when one is sad (this is probably what the song meant - smile though your heart is aching)
4. Yim cheut cheuan - the smile a winner gives to a losing opponent or rival
5. Yim tak tan - the I'm right-and-you're-wrong smile
6. Yim mee lai nai - the smile the blankets bad intentions
7. Feun yim - the forced smile
8. Yim tak tai- the polite smile used for strangers or acquaintances
9. Yim yor - the mocking smile; used to taunt or laugh at someone
10. Yim soo - things-are-so-bad-I-better-smile smile
11. Yim mai ohk - when you want to smile but can't, or the smile won't come out
12. Yim haeng - the dry smile for situations like "is it today? sorry, I forgot please don't be mad at me"
13. Yim ya-ya - the smile used to apologize or to diffuse an embarrassing, tense moment
Comments
Happy TT!
many smile's today
^___^
Very interesting
yim - thai :)
Happy Thursday!
http://iamharriet.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-could-be-any-person-living-or.html
absolute treat :)
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