Let's Learn One Word A Day.

[Kwasaki]

Learn one word of Thai a day. 

So after 14 days you know how to say one word in English.

Alien. 

Learn basin Thai better. 

[GammaGlobulin]

On 11/9/2005 at 3:33 PM, Neeranam said:

ทุกอย่าง (took yaang) Every Thing

Please don't forget... ทุกสิ่งทุกอย่าง

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

เสียตัว = to lose one's virginity; or lost virginity

 

This is my favorite phrase to use in Thailand, because...

 

Some people like to greet others, or exchange a pleasantry by asking: "have you eaten yet?" = กินข้าวหรือยัง

 

But not me.

Instead, when I meet someone, I don't like to just say the same-old, same-old.

 

So I ask them:  เสียตัวไหม = "have you lost your virginity?"

 

Anyway: In this case, เสีย means "broken", and ตัว means "body".

Very logical: broken body = เสียตัว = which actually means, I think... broken hymen

 

I think it's OK to use this with friends who like a joke.

But, you probably best not use this with most people.

 

I first learned เสียตัว in our first year passa Thai reading book.

 

If anyone wants this book, maybe I can attach a pdf file, next time someone comments about this word.

I have all my passa Thai reading books, and textbooks, scanned on a high-resolution flatbed scanner, which took me many hours.

Most of these are still stored on my Google Drive cloud account.

But not sure anyone might be interested if I were to attach a pdf format of this book.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Incompetence = ไร้ความสามารถ

Incompetent = ไร้ความสามารถ

 

So here, I think the important "prefix" is  " ไร้ ", meaning 'without'.

And, of course, ความสามารถ means the ability to do something, and สามารถ just means 'can' as in 'can do'

 

My favorite time to use the noun incompetence or the adjective incompetent, is when I am talking about local electricians in my area.

 

So please also remember ไร้, rai, which is, as I say, sort of like a prefix, and means without.

You can see ไร้ used quite a bit if you do some reading in passa Thai.

 

Passa Thai is lots of fun to read, and also more challenging than some other languages like Chinese, for example.

 

[Gaccha]

 

This is an obscure one. The "original poster" of a thread in an internet forum is called the OP. 

 

The Thai is clearly an initialism but what do the initials stand for?

[nrasmussen]

40 minutes ago, Gaccha said:

 

This is an obscure one. The "original poster" of a thread in an internet forum is called the OP. 

 

The Thai is clearly an initialism but what do the initials stand for?

 

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