Ponzi no talk thai

I've been on a short hiatus sataying staying with my Aunt and Uncle after a recent surgery. (No worries all is well and my recovery has been astoundingly quick.) I can't tell you how much it hurts to laugh when you have stiches but I can say it's making me heal faster.

Here's a bit of the latest conversation between my Auntie and I. Forgive my spelling of any word meant to be pronounced in Thai.

Her: (she holds up a tiny box containing a chocolate mini cake from Starbucks and looks at me and says) “Ka Nom”

Me: “What does that mean, chocolate cake?”

Her: ”No, more like dessert”

Me: “Ka Nom”, Ka gnome, Ka num?”

Her: She laughes her head off and says “it sounds like you're saying breast; or milk - depending on how you use it in a sentence.”

So we both burst into laughter.  I keep saying breast in Thai when I'm trying to say dessert and she keeps laughing.

Some how we get to the question of “How do you tell a woman she has nice breasts in english?” Hmmm - to me that was worth thought. I said well, if I were to tell someone close to me like family or a girlfriend I'd probably say “Wow, you have really nice boobs, girl.” But, if I were going to tell someone I'm not really close to I'd probably say “Wow, you are very rubenesque.”

She looked at me and said “What does very boobenesque mean?” OMG - I nearly busted a gut! Boobanesque.