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My Thai lesson this week (lesson 19 of The Intermediate Reader by Thomas Gething) deals with การเชื่อโชคเชื่อลางของคนไทย. In discussing the superstition surrounding the twitch of someone's eye, he says

...แต่ถ้าหนังตาขวากระตุกแปลว่าโชคดีกำลังมา แต่ยังมาไม่ถึง

My rough understanding would be: .....but if a person's right eyelid twitches, it's said he might be lucky (luck is on the way, but it may never arrive).

Does anyone have a better way of translating this?

Thanks as always from Udon

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My Thai lesson this week (lesson 19 of The Intermediate Reader by Thomas Gething) deals with การเชื่อโชคเชื่อลางของคนไทย. In discussing the superstition surrounding the twitch of someone's eye, he says

...แต่ถ้าหนังตาขวากระตุกแปลว่าโชคดีกำลังมา แต่ยังมาไม่ถึง

My rough understanding would be: .....but if a person's right eyelid twitches, it's said he might be lucky (luck is on the way, but it may never arrive).

Does anyone have a better way of translating this?

Thanks as always from Udon

โชคดีกำลังมา, agree with your rough translation, would translate this as, good luck is on the way (good luck is coming).

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Thanks for the replies. I must have o-d'd on my Thai last night.........the ยัง just didn't click. I think the consensus is "Luck is on the way, but it hasn't yet arrived"

Progress.......slooow but sure.

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Thanks for the replies. I must have o-d'd on my Thai last night.........the ยัง just didn't click. I think the consensus is "Luck is on the way, but it hasn't yet arrived"

Progress.......slooow but sure.

'ยัง' could mean, as an adverb, 'yet' or 'still'. Usually means 'yet' when leading the word 'ไม่'.

ยังอยู่ที่นี่ = am still here

ยังไม่ = not yet

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