How Learning Thai Makes You Hate The English Alphabet [Season 4, Episode 26] - a podcast by Sheila Dee & Evo Terra - Third World Survivors

Recorded live on location at  Save Our Souls after probably too many beers, Evo goes on a tear about the English alphabet. What predicated this outrage/outburst? Learning the Thai alphabet, obviously.

(Don’t worry about the incorrect number of Thai consonants and vowels Evo says on the show. Did we mention he’d been drinking?)

Linguists probably won’t care much for this episode. But pragmatists, realists, and anyone who isn’t a native English speaker but has learned this goofy language will likely love it.

If you leave us a quick voicemail, Evo won’t have to make something up next week. And if you want these episodes early and gain access to all of our bonus content, support us on Patreon.

And Now, An Unfortunately Literal Audio-to-Text Transcription

Once again and for your comedic enjoyment, we present to you a transcript of our audio by the big computer brain at PodcasterPro. No, it's not very good at interpreting our content. But it is funny!

00:00:00
The trick is not putting it all the way in. When we make I am not, you're going to respond to that. Paying l o one one draw as one this. No. What this morning? This one time. Oh my God, Just one time. The girls. So no question this week. Love. No. What I thought this, we are rapidly approaching the end of the fourth season of the show. This is episode out four hundred twenty six Glad though the or the foil, the 26th episode of the fourth season of this one time. Um. Um, I thought we can talk about. My hatred of the American Alphabet . And and when did you come to this realization? They hated the American Alphabet vis has come at the combination of living in Southeast Asia for two years and trying. With with poor results. To learn the Thai alphabet, which which makes a lot of sense. Okay, not so much on the American off that though. Before we jump into that, I should mention the fact we are sitting outside listener of the save our souls, our neighborhood craft beer place manned by the fantastic Q who just got married recently. Congratulations Q and we are recording here with only do the show live her. We can introduce ourselves get we probably should do that. I'm She lady And I am either terror. You are listening to this one time and we are Shiboh dammit. I did it backwards again. You know you've had a couple of beers now back to the original conversation. We were having My hatred of the American off that thanks in large part to my attempted study. Poor as it is of the Thai ask that you know the task but has like 74 characters in their teen vowels. And do you have the mall down pat 74.

00:02:08
Consonance and thirteen vows note or have her half of them. I don't have of his Horter with him down. You do a really good job of speaking an and attempting to read like your. You've got the speaking done pretty well. You've got the sounds and things like that. And I know you, you work on trying to read as we go through and see things senior printed on signs and stuff like that. So I've been super impressed. I am. I know nothing fix Emilia across the street from us. There is a sign that says, uh, the name of our road. And the name of the road we live on is Sharon a home. Yes, which is in American that spelled chair Row One Nakhon C H A R O and a big space in a knock-on far guys shares of I. Nick next bought next, but all right Hamdan. Okay by 30 not alive. So General Nicholson is build C H A R O eat in space in A K H O N. So that is what? Set one, two, three, four,...