Thread: Need help understanding girlfriend message on facebook.

Originally Posted by toddaniels

I dunno that there's a lot of foul language there "Neverna", it's just how people who know each other talk to one another ALL the time. Now perhaps you run with a different crowd o' thaiz than populate this place,

I don't see anything there which I don't hear daily spoken by thaiz that are familiar with each other. The informal pronoun use กู/มึง (I, me/you) is oh-so common (as is their misspelling in chat thai).

Yes, we "run with a different crowd o' thaiz", Tod. I occasionally hear kids and youths speaking like that and occasionally a very rough woman who is more often than not drunk. Thais I know and interact with do not speak like that and do not approve of others speaking like that. But I suppose it's like using foul language in English. What I would say to my close friends wouldn't be the same as I would use with work colleagues, for example, but it would depend on where I was working and who with. If I worked on a building site, maybe I would, but in an office, no way. Horses for courses, but I wouldn't be impressed at all if my wife started speaking like the OP's "girlfriend", and my wife would not be impressed with me if I started using gu, meung and hia.

Trashy sluts from Issan talk to each other that way. Respectable Thais do not E-sut I-sut and gohokk each other in normal conversation .. Good friends or not.
Regardless the convo has fuckall content. Couple of slags fb'ing.

Any pictures of this isaan mattress warrior yet?

Is this her?

I'm not in Surin with the trashy sluts mate I'm in Phuket with them ..
If you present that dialogue to a presentable Thai lady they would most certainly take offence to it .. I know .. I presented it to a group of four at work after your reply.
U may be talking about Thai males.
I'm sure they are all about the " fuck u fuck her and fuck off "
Nice ladies don't use profanity.
End of.

Originally Posted by toddaniels

FlyFree; How about you plug that chat-sa-peak thai into another b/s online translator, because you sure can't read thai fer shit...

I dunno that there's a lot of foul language there "Neverna", it's just how people who know each other talk to one another ALL the time. Now perhaps you run with a different crowd o' thaiz than populate this place, OR perhaps you do know as much about these people as you imagine.. Also with the advent of something called the internet, the rigid social rules of engagement which thaiz follow blindly from birth because it was beaten into their heads as kids is NOT adhered to because they're not face to face. EVERY face book page, every thai language only forum is littered with these terms to the point they're common place...

I don't see anything there which I don't hear daily spoken by thaiz that are familiar with each other. The informal pronoun use กู/มึง (I, me/you) is oh-so common (as is their misspelling in chat thai).

Thai is a super contextual language (that means context is everything) and often these "chat ripz" don't provide the back story which the two people who are talking about it already know. Another thing is the age factor.. How old are the two people in the conversation.


Here's a totally off the cuff translation I did of the first part. It's saying something along the lines of;

กูจะบอกอะไรให้นะ เพื่อนเหี้ยๆกูไม่เอาหลอก what did I tell you, my fucking friend doesn't want to at all
จะตบกับกูได้นะตัวๆเลย <- (At first I didn't get this, but after googling ตบกับกู it looks like-> wanna mess with me, huh?
กูไม่ชอบพวกเก่งแต่ในเฟส I don't like people who are good only on facebook
แล้วกูก็ไม่ได้หาเรื่ิองมึงก่อนด้วย and then I didn't come make a problem with you before
อยู่ดีๆก็มาโพสต์ด่ากูเฉย กูงง วะ เออ everything was fine, but they came and posted rude things that made me confused, like wtf?
แล้วอีกอย่าง. เรื่องที่มึงช่วยกูให้กูไปอยู่บ้านมึงอะ and another thing, about the subject of you helping me to go to your house,
จบไปนานละ กูช่วยเหลือมึงมากกว่าที่มึงช่วยกูสะอีกนะ ไม่ไปทำ3-4วันไม่มีเงินใครเลี้ยงมึง กูกับซอง that has been over for a LONG time already. I have helped you more than you've helped me. didn't go to work for 3 or 4 days, didn't have money who took care of you? Me and (someone else possibly named ซอง)
อีกสัสไม่คิดเงินสักบาท แต่มึงนี่ คิดกับกูทุกอย่าง we didn't think about money not even a baht, but you, think about it with me about it all the time.

Now what I'm not gonna do is translate the rest of that tripe line by line for you.

It appears to be a conversation about adding (แอดเฟส <- add Face), then blocking someone on face book (บ็ลอกเฟส <- block Face), then talking about unblocking them (เลิกบล็อก <-stop block), then something about how they're thinking it might not be good for them to do it, as it could bring repercussions and/or allow other people to come chat about some undisclosed topic.

I do gotta ask you man. You say they can't speak engrish at all and you communicate with them in "basic" thai; which could be you can say "sweaty crap" or that you can actually voice a real thought, I dunno. Still, to me it sounds an awful lot like a slow motion train wreck in progress.. However, that's on you man..

That's the best I can do without more context. It's rough because these people already know what's goin' on... Sorry man, Good luck.

Well done, Toddly....
Looks as if there are a couple of us that can read it as it is intended.
It's not school book literal Thai.

As some know, Thai [in veritable circles] can be incredibly complex and diverse, less the written form than verbal - even though a incredible rich cyber form of the language has developed over the years.

Quite evident by observing Thai language forums, blogs, social networking.

^Nice to see you're in the green, aribald...

Originally Posted by shaggersback

Nice ladies don't use profanity.

Gotta agree with shaggerback - doesn't matter how familiar you are or informal the setting - gutter language is gutter language. I don't oft hear it - period.

Originally Posted by shaggersback

Respectable Thais do not E-sut I-sut and gohokk each other in normal conversation .. Good friends or not.

in my experience they do, not when out with people they don't know but in their house and socializing, taking the piss out of each other is a rather funny hobby.

Originally Posted by shaggersback

If you present that dialogue to a presentable Thai lady they would most certainly take offence to it .. I know .. I presented it to a group of four at work after your reply.

how embarrassing. i hope you don't mind them gossiping about you behind your back at work.

Why don't we all post extracts from our Thai Female partners Facebook conversations on here, and let all the experts explain to us stupid lot weather it is hi so Thai or common Thai.
Basically My Mary's Facebook site is of no interest to Me, but I forced to participate by supplying English spelling during sentenc construction, then after spelling out Boreing messages " I cooked Sirloin steak for My Husband "
Then it's look at this picture or story , I ask every time, " Do I know them?"
No
"I am not interested "
No getting away with that, I still have to endure the Thai soap on Facebook.

Sure , they love a bit of goss. Havnt heard them speak ill of anyone tho, everyone knows their place.
They know the crack on farang as well , and always asume that the farangs mia is from Esaan.
Nice Thai girls are a hoot mate, get out and meet some.

It's the "Line" app on the phones that is annoying

Originally Posted by aribald

Thanks for the answers.

After reading it multiple times, i think i'm not the subject of her message.

I'm quite surprised though she's talking that vulgarly. The girl i know is so shy and discreete! She's young as well (20).

Having had my wife translate, I would suggest that your lady is scum. I suggest you move along to the next bar for maybe better pickings.

"shaggersback" and others' you guyz missed the point entirely.

It's NOT that the constructs are vulgar, just overly familiar and colloquial. Obviously showing it to four work associates; who you don't have that intimate of a relationship with, seeing as they a workers where you work is a non-starter. I highly doubt those workers are equals to you in any way shape or form and I doubt you go out, sit at a local bar or food establishment, chew the fat and talk shit about this or that person like thaiz do either.

Thai is a very regimented and stratified society to interact in (especially for thaiz, less so for white people). A thai would never speak that way to someone older, someone in a better job, who wore better clothes, was better educated, and/or who fell under a myriad of other mostly imaginary criteria. However they would most definitely without a doubt speak that way to their close personal friends..

Again, you're asking the wrong audience. Of course all you guyz with thai wives are gonna say "my missus doesn't speak that way".. This conversation was NOT a missus to her husband, not a wife to their child, but evidently from two very youngish (I'd guess no more than mid-20'z) thai gurlz.

The real truth is; this is exactly how the thai youth of today interacts with one another, especially to their "friendz" on facebook on thai language only web-forums, via LINE, We-chat, SMS and to their close friends in real life situations.

Like I said, let's just agree that you don't know shit from Shinola about thai social interactions and what compels thaiz to vary the register in which they converse and/or interact with other thaiz and leave it at that.

Take off your rose colored glasses and listen to these people talking to one another around you.

There's a high chance because you're a foreigner that the thaiz conversing around you won't vary the register in which they're speaking to another thai in the least. This is because the general consensus amongst most thaiz is; white people can't speak/understand thai fer shit..

It's starting to sound from the rhetoric you guys are spouting that you're beating a dead whore.. err horse... Sayin' it ain't so doesn't mean it ain't, only that you can't/won't see it..

I was gonna say to OP, yeah you moron! They're talking about somebody else and not about you at all.

I hope this girl stay away from a paranoid stalker like you or you may dig something more in the future.

I'm a native Thai and Thais will change register and their wording according to who they speak with.

In this case, she is furious and is talking to one of her best friends and although the language is crude, but so is her mood and you're gonna use a few profanities when you're furious.

Oh, I'm sure your missus would utter a few of those words in that text if they would be in a bad enough mood. If never ever, then I can surely say that your missus is either lying, or some kind of weird freak.

Originally Posted by armstrong

taking the piss out of each other is a rather funny hobby.

and taking the piss out of the falang - if they are not , then they probably do not like you

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

It's the "Line" app on the phones that is annoying

LINE is quite a handy app chat , voice and video that works well - except for the massive emoticons

Originally Posted by baldrick

except for the massive emoticons

deleted it for that reason.

Good for teenagers and thai females.

Originally Posted by Mole

I'm a native Thai and Thais will change register and their wording according to who they speak with.

Interesting, Mole...Thanks for that...

Originally Posted by Mole

Oh, I'm sure your missus would utter a few of those words in that text if they would be in a bad enough mood. If never ever, then I can surely say that your missus is either lying, or some kind of weird freak.

Heh...Well said...We are indeed the same all over the world...But there are still morons here who tell the guys to get a new bar girl...Funny how that works...

just overly familiar and colloquial. Obviously showing it to four work associates; who you don't have that intimate of a relationship with, seeing as they a workers where you work is a non-starter. I highly doubt those workers are equals to you in any way shape or form and I doubt you go out, sit at a local bar or food establishment, chew the fat and talk shit about " Quote.

You assumed incorrectly but nevermind.
Yes we are work colleagues and we do go out all the time as a group and socialize.
I do like to hang out with the lowlife , have lived in Surin in the moobahn , central Thailand cities , provinces in the south and west of Bkk , working socializing , pissing It up all over .
Your watering down your argument .. At first everybody speaks that way .. Then its only close friends ..and now its Thai youth on social networks who talk like that.
Weak tea for granma . Lowlife thai girls are great fun when used properly. Ie single use only.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Originally Posted by Mole

I'm a native Thai and Thais will change register and their wording according to who they speak with.

Interesting, Mole...Thanks for that...

We are indeed the same all over the world

Thais aren't unique in that regard. I would say that is pretty universal. Standard - excepting a few chavs and a few from the pikey community.

I showed my wife and 15 yo step daughter the message , at different times , the wife was not impressed at all , the daughter laughed and said normal, but did not give a translation.