Comments on: A not yet unpacked street stall

By: nalika

nalika — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:59:27 +0000

Yes, I read the explanation from the link, but while it introduces there is such a phenomenon, it doesn’t quite explain why it commonly occurs to native speakers.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:29:23 +0000

Yep; coffee (and other drinks) and toast–well done! I reckon anybody familiar with these dishes will see the scoop tool and the cans of condensed milk as giveaways.

nalika: It is in fact a common mistake made my native English speakers. Check out the link I supplied for an explanation.

By: nalika

nalika — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:45:17 +0000

Hmmm. Funnily, I am rather confused why there’s a common mistake of writing unpack to mean still packed… Not yet unpacked is what I would write for what you mean in this post… unpack=to empty, thus, unpacked=emptied which this stall is not. I wonder if it’s a mistake that oddly belongs to native English speakers, which I am not.

Is it a nam tofu stall that also sells small bread pieces with sankaya?

By: Little Miss Contrary

Little Miss Contrary — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:20:50 +0000

It looks like a vendor for traditional coffee, tea, milk drinks, and probably bread and sung-ka-ya?

By: Thaigirl

Thaigirl — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:24:03 +0000

Coffee and toast?