Of the world's languages, Thai has one of the richest systems of grammatical aspect; the language allows for very detailed elaboration of how events transpire and progress. Because English has a relatively impoverished system of aspect, this can make it difficult to translate sentences such as ปีติกำลังจะเริ่มกินข้าวเสร็จไป ("Piti is going to start to finish eating the rice.").
Cultural Aspects