From: Speak Like A Thai by Benjawan Becker, Contemporary Thai Expressions.

#307. She is beautiful all over.

suai bpai mot. สวยไปหมด

Recent slang: Her beauty is all gone. (No beauty left)

Other usage: dii bpai mot. ดีไปหมด - All is good.

(above #307 is quoted from book.)

It seems contradictory to me. Which one is it?

the modern meaning is the its all gone, I have been told. Suai maak would be a better one to use for the compliment.. over to the forum.

Oz

From: Speak Like A Thai by Benjawan Becker, Contemporary Thai Expressions.

#307. She is beautiful all over.

suai bpai mot. สวยไปหมด

Recent slang: Her beauty is all gone. (No beauty left)

Other usage: dii bpai mot. ดีไปหมด - All is good.

(above #307 is quoted from book.)

It seems contradictory to me. Which one is it?

It is contradictory. Technically the first one is correct and the second developed as a funny word play joke. It's kind of turning สวย into a noun and saying that สวย (all of them) has left. Instead of สวย as descriptive of the entirety (of the person/thing, group of people/things).

It means all is beautiful but some people make a joke about it saying it means all the beauty has gone.

It means all is beautiful but some people make a joke about it saying it means all the beauty has gone.

แล้ว “สวยทั้งตัว” ในความหมายเดิมใช้ได้ไหม

It is contradictory. Technically the first one is correct and the second developed as a funny word play joke. It's kind of turning สวย into a noun and saying that สวย (all of them) has left. Instead of สวย as descriptive of the entirety (of the person/thing, group of people/things).

i concur, its supposed to be contradictory, that makes it funny. Actually, Benjawan was staying at my house when working on that part of the book, a little know fact.