WordsSongthaew
สองแถว · song thaeo
Literally 'two rows'. A pickup with benches down each side of the bed, and the bus service of every town here.
What it is
Literally 'two rows'. A pickup with benches down each side of the bed, and the bus service of every town here.
The long version
Inference — the reason a rider needs the word is that a songthaew behaves like neither a bus nor a car: it stops anywhere, without warning, on the left, because someone standing at the roadside raised a hand. On a two-lane mountain road that is the vehicle most likely to stop in front of you.
It is also the answer if the bike breaks. A songthaew will take a person and often a bag to the next town for very little.
Runs with
- hazardBuses and pickups on your line — The wider version of this problem.
Named here by
- kitSending a bag on the bus — The other thing that will carry a bag, over shorter distances.
- kitSending the bag ahead — The other thing that will carry a bag for very little.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Chiang Mai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text.story | cited | Chiang Mai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Chiang Mai — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there