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[claude06thailand]

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I found the way this small sign is written quite interesting...

[Gra-ding]

SHOES INSIDE.jpg

I found the way this small sign is written quite interesting...

Simple and clearly understood while we struggle on with "correct" thai.

Where's the ไว้ and the ข้างใน when you need them.

The language is going to hell in a handbasket.

[Tgeezer]

SHOES INSIDE.jpg

I found the way this small sign is written quite interesting...

Simple and clearly understood while we struggle on with "correct" thai.

Where's the ไว้ and the ข้างใน when you need them.

The language is going to hell in a handbasket.

That is so true.
I think that precision is what gets us คนไทยไม่พูด พูดมาก etc.

[Pirin]

SHOES INSIDE.jpg

I found the way this small sign is written quite interesting...
"กรุณาเก็บรองเท้าเข้าห้องพักด้วยนะคะ

ป้ายนี้เป็นป้ายที่เจ้าของสถานที่แจ้งให้ลูกค้าที่เข้ามาใช้บริการครั้งแรกทราบว่า ควรจะทำอย่างไรหากลูกค้าถอดรองเท้าก่อนเข้าห้องค่ะ

[claude06thailand]

Yes, Khun Pirin, and I think the reason is because there are stray dogs around in this big resort.
I have seen refuse taken out from the bins outside in the morning, and I suppose some of these dogs may like to steal your shoes as well...

[Tgeezer]

Yes, Khun Pirin, and I think the reason is because there are stray dogs around in this big resort.
I have seen refuse taken out from the bins outside in the morning, and I suppose some of these dogs may like to steal your shoes as well...

The use of กรุณา as opposed to โปรด I read somewhere was that the former is for the speakers benefit and the latter for your's. Be careful leaving the train is โปรด please pay at the desk is กรุณา and, this one falls between the two I suppose.

[Gra-ding]

Now there's a subtlety I never noticed before.

I asked the missus if there was a difference between the two and got the old "same same" reply.

So I tried your กรุณา leaving the train scenario and what do you know, "same same but different"


I'm presently looking for a new teacher.

[Rick Bradford]

Where I live the management doesn't use polite words like กรุณา or โปรด, but say: ห้ามวางรองเท้าภายนอกห้อง

I am half expecting them to build an arch over the front entrance with the words: การงานทำให้อิสระ

[claude06thailand]

Where I live the management doesn't use polite words like กรุณา or โปรด, but say: ห้ามวางรองเท้าภายนอกห้อง

I am half expecting them to build an arch over the front entrance with the words: การงานทำให้อิสระ

Rick, you are leaving in a "stalag" ??? When the build an arch over the front entrance of your place, please send us a picture !

your "การงานทำให้อิสระ" reminds me of the german "Arbeit macht frei", but I wonder if it is possible to translate it that way.

By the way, what would be the correct translation in english ? "working makes you feel free" "working is the way to freedom"...

I would rather say : การทำงานทำให้รู้สึกมีอิสระ
or การทำงานทำให้เป็นอิสระ or การทำงานทำให้มีอิสระ

David will probably be interested in kwowing if Thai natives can rightly understand การงานทำให้อิสระ (see his post about "The translation process).

[Richard Wordingham]

your "การงานทำให้อิสระ" reminds me of the german "Arbeit macht frei", but I wonder if it is possible to translate it that way.

That's how I would have translated it. Rick's post loses its meaning if you translate it to 'Work makes free'. There's even an English Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei !