Translation Requests

**danbo** · 07-10-2006, 03:48 PM

I can see GoW picking up plently of repo points from this thread....

This is from the intro to a Roald Dahl short story:

เต่าถูกนำมาจากแอฟริกาครั้งละนับพันตัว
I'm guessing at ถูกนำ meaning 'every' in some sense (passive?) but can't work out a translation. And ครั้งละนับพันตัว I think is 'in their thousands?'

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-10-2006, 03:49 PM

^ It's the weekend, so she's sparko on the sofa at the moment. Shall I give her a kick?

**danbo** · 07-10-2006, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Shall I give her a kick?

Please, not on account of this thread....but if you just feel like annoying her

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-10-2006, 03:53 PM

Jeez! It's like raising the dead. I guess you'll have to wait a wee while.

**kingwilly** · 07-10-2006, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ It's the weekend, so she's sparko on the sofa at the moment. Shall I give her a kick?

yeah goan!

i wanna c u bleed!

diaw · 07-10-2006, 04:28 PM

Hide the knives... a kick's a comin'...

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-10-2006, 04:31 PM

I chickened out - I'll wait until she's stopped cuddling the cushion and starts complaining about being hungry again.

**Thetyim** · 07-10-2006, 04:59 PM

Turtle bring from Africa 1000 each time

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-10-2006, 05:01 PM

^ You asked the missus didn't you?

**Goddess of Whatever** · 07-10-2006, 05:03 PM

ถูกนำ = are brought
ครั้งละนับพันตัว = 1000 each time

1000 turtles are brought from Africa each time.

Originally Posted by danbo

I'm guessing at ถูกนำ meaning 'every' in some sense (passive?)

ํYes, it's passive.

**danbo** · 07-10-2006, 05:06 PM

Ta Muchly

**Goddess of Whatever** · 07-10-2006, 05:09 PM

It's not a big deal.

**Thetyim** · 07-10-2006, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

You asked the missus didn't you?

Yes.
I can't read all that squiggly stuff

**kingwilly** · 07-10-2006, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I chickened out

haha - knew you would - big talker!

I'll wait until she's stopped cuddling the cushion and starts complaining about being hungry again.

jeez - mine can do both at once!

**danbo** · 11-10-2006, 02:45 PM

This is from a Roald Dahl short story - it's describing flowers on a balcony.

..เต็มไปด้วยสีสรรพ์ของดอกไม้ที่แข่งกันบานสะพรั่ ง

I'm guessing at something like 'completely full with flowers in blossom'

But I do no understand how แข่ง is being used. Is it that the flowers are competing with each other for space?

**Goddess of Whatever** · 21-10-2006, 02:21 PM

I think they choose this word because they want people who read this can imagine how blossom flowers do.

Like you said "completely full with flowers in blossom", แข่ง will make this sentence is more more likely true.

Wow.. your Thai is pretty well!

**danbo** · 21-10-2006, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Goddess of Whatever

Wow.. your Thai is pretty well!

You're very kind, but truth be known my learning is going rather slowly.

I do like my new 'learning scheme' though. I (slowly) work my through books in Thai and make notes of the new vocabularly - I find it easier to remember new words when they are part of a sentence, rather than sitting by themselves. At the moment I am reading a Roald Dahl short story about tortoises and next on the bookshelf is Moominpappa's Memoirs. I'm not 100% sure who Moominpappa was, but he must have been a pretty important person to have had his memoirs published.

**Goddess of Whatever** · 21-10-2006, 03:26 PM

Could you right Moominpappa in Thai please?

**danbo** · 21-10-2006, 03:38 PM

The book is titled:

บันทึกมูมิน

**Goddess of Whatever** · 21-10-2006, 03:40 PM

He must be a important person which I have never ever heard before. Anyway, thanks for sharing.

**danbo** · 21-10-2006, 03:47 PM

"The moomins are the central characters in a series of books by Finnish writer Tove Jansson originally published in Swedish. They are a family of Scandinavian trolls who are white, round and furry in appearance, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses. The carefree and adventurous family live in their house in Moominvalley."

Skulldigger may know of them - I think that he comes from Moominvalley.

**Skulldigger** · 24-10-2006, 10:35 PM

Indeed I do.

The Moomin (or Mumin) trolls are one of Finland's greatest exports. You'll find that the memoirs of Moominpappa are a bit more philosophical and melancholy than the other Moomin books.

**Spin** · 24-10-2006, 10:44 PM

The moomins rock, also that little penguin guy, Pingu. Where was he from?

**Skulldigger** · 24-10-2006, 11:04 PM

^Swiss, I think...

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