Could somene ttranslate the following for me please?

Thanks

ต้องการยามปะ

"Do you need security to protect you"

Where did you see this??

I need time (to get over this).

oh, and your reply

ฉันไม่สนเธอหรอก

I don't care about you!

or

เราจบกันแค่นี้นะ

We are finished as far as I'm concerned (gentle)

(on the other hand I might be completely wrong, and FotM correct)

Edited October 11, 201312 yr by FiftyTwo

My Wife says: Security Guard/work

My Wife says: Security Guard/work

i would just say 'do you want a security'?

Thanks all.

FiftyTwo, yes you are completely wrong. The word ยาม is never ever used in this context.

FiftyTwo, yes you are completely wrong. The word ยาม is never ever used in this context.

No problem, my helpful Thai gf said, "untranslatable, not proper Thai, not written by Thai."

I'm a native Thai and as far as I can tell, ต้องการยามปะ is quite correct and understandable and also probably written by a Thai.

Am I right in thinking that ปะ in this expression is an informal contraction of หรือเปล่า?

Am I right in thinking that ปะ in this expression is an informal contraction of หรือเปล่า?

Yes, quite correct.

Personally I hate this and other similar contractions but languages develop and evolve - unlike myself, especially at my age!

Patrick

the word 'ปะ' can also be said when a group of friends are ready to go to somewhere.

for example, "ปะ! พวกเราไปกันเถอะ" (let's go guys).

FiftyTwo, yes you are completely wrong. The word ยาม is never ever used in this context.

No problem, my helpful Thai gf said, "untranslatable, not proper Thai, not written by Thai."

It was written by a Thai.

My (Thai) partner suspects that this is a misspelling and should be:

ต้องการยางปะ

To be honest this seems more likely than advertising for security guards (who, anyway, don't particularly like to be called ยาม and would probably use a different term to describe themselves).

The inversion of ยางปะ is a little odd, but I'm assured it's just a normal part of Thai people playing with their language.

Thoughts?

My (Thai) partner suspects that this is a misspelling and should be:

ต้องการยางปะ

To be honest this seems more likely than advertising for security guards (who, anyway, don't particularly like to be called ยาม and would probably use a different term to describe themselves).

The inversion of ยางปะ is a little odd, but I'm assured it's just a normal part of Thai people playing with their language.

Thoughts?

excuse me,saying 'ต้องการยางปะ' instead of saying 'ต้องการยามปะ' sounds very hilarious to me. hahaha at least i've never heard about this kind of 'language playing' before.

(i'm Thai) if someone says:

ต้องการยางปะ? means 'do you want a tire?'

but

ต้องการยามปะ? means 'do you want a security?'

Edited October 12, 201312 yr by Lara Alex

My (Thai) partner suspects that this is a misspelling and should be:

ต้องการยางปะ

To be honest this seems more likely than advertising for security guards (who, anyway, don't particularly like to be called ยาม and would probably use a different term to describe themselves).

The inversion of ยางปะ is a little odd, but I'm assured it's just a normal part of Thai people playing with their language.

Thoughts?

excuse me,saying 'ต้องการยางปะ' instead of saying 'ต้องการยามปะ' sounds very hilarious to me. hahaha at least i've never heard about this kind of 'language playing' before.

(i'm Thai) if someone says:

ต้องการยางปะ? means 'do you want a tire?'

but

ต้องการยามปะ? means 'do you want a security?'

I think you're missing the point. Normally one would see ปะยาง. The word play is in inverting the order to ยางปะ. (That's why I used the word "inversion" in my post.)

misunderstood.