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notanameleft

Ooh another thing..
Thai people are in Petronage and relatives system.. when they speak to the older or younger people they will use;

Pee = brother/sister for the people who are not much older, between 1-15 years older
Nong = brother/sister for anyone who is younger than you
Naa = Auntie/uncle for anyone who seems to be the same age as yr aunt/uncle but younger than yr parents
Paa/Lung = Aunt/uncle for people who are older than yr parents
Ta/Yaai = granpa/ grandma for the old people

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gjbkk

Try this website thai-language.com its quite good and it gets into the nitty gritty bits too

BugginOut

How do you write, "I shoulda' quit you, babe, a long time ago"?

notanameleft

Phom na ja lerk gab khun tang naan laew la tee rak!
ผมน่าจะเลิกกับคุณตั้งนานแล้วหละ ที่รัก

kingwilly

try 'khun kae goen pai samrap phom, phom tawng gaan saao saao' !

friscofrankie

Transliteration again. better:
Kuan ja lerk gap K้un Nan ma leaw
ควรจะเลิกกับคุณนานมาแล้ว
When we speak in the transliterated sentences it is usually not understood and if it were would have much less impact than when Speaking actual Thai
Leave off the "pom" unless saying "this is mine," "that is mine" or "it is my habit."
In fact, don't even use it then but use your name as in:
"this is frankies stuff" -- "ชองแฟรงค์กี่"
Kong pom -- "ชองผม" is OK but usually folks will use their nick or given name instead of the pronoun for me or I. These pronouns are usually reserved for conversations with people you do not know well.

When telling some one "I am going to go," "I just got back" or "I am hungry" you would leave the hte pronoun off completely. adding it will confuse most folks no end

Lord knows, when delivering a message such as that one you really don;t want there to be any confusion or a lack of impact. Oh, and leave the Tirak off completely, Led Zeppelin just doesn't translate all that well.

Before running my mouth I always test this shit out on my old lady. The look on her face told me I was ถูเต้อง 100%

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kingwilly

wot about ... khun pen kno ngi ngao lae mai mee kansueksa duai ?

friscofrankie

This took a few minutes to work out.

I think if you were to speak this sentence as written it wold fall back to you sounding a bit illiterate.
lae & duai are redundant khun bpen kon?
"You are a stupid person and have no education also" ?
Who would sound stupid?

kingwilly

it would be sounding correct then.



quite.

actually after i (tried to) write that i suddenly had a thought you might be offended cos you'd think i was implying things about your wife. which is absolutely not the case, i only imply things about cmn.

friscofrankie

Oh, I thought you were trying to figure a way to talk back to your woman.

notanameleft

mai chawp kon uard roo!

kingwilly

mate, I got a thump upside my brain the other day just for mumbling one word in thai ..... and that was at 5.00am whilst i was asleep.

I dont dare talk to MrsKW like thta!

friscofrankie

^^Are you referring to me?

notanameleft

oh no no...
It's what i learnt from a thai friend..

just wanna show i know some.. and that refers to myself
hahah

kingwilly

sounds like the phrase

farang roo mak, mai dee loei

notanameleft

yeah but different!
It's good to roo mak, but not good to show it too much!
Oops... no no roo mak mai dee

DrB0b

Khun Jeruk na Chiengmai is the current mayor of Chiang Mai and responsible for all those fekkin holes in the pavements around the moat.

LaNoLin

The Chiangmai Mayor name is "Duangduean Na Chiangmai" or Paeng (nickname)

LaNoLin

You are too old for me, I want babe!

Spiderman2008

khun ja rak chan mai = คุณจะรักฉันไหม = Will you love me?