Facebook translation.

[tgeezer]

กำลังจะลบ friend ที่ไม่ มีการเคลื่อนไหวกัน ใครเคลื่อนไหวเฟสเรา กด like หน่อยนะคะ จะได้ไม่ลบ ขอบคุณ

Typical, now I can't find the post again on Facebook, it was a post of a friend of a friend.

What drew my attention to it was การเคลื่อนไหว which had been translated as 'movement' and เฟส as 'phase'.

It also translated จะได้ไม่ลบ as 'don't delete' I remember. I think that this is a good example of how the words chosen to translate depend on context without which machines often fail.

 

What it did get was กำลังจะ as 'about to' which I didn't know.

 

 

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[tgeezer]

Here is something to translate for all of those facinated by my last post.

Context: Facebook post by a newly qualified airframes and engines mechanic. A picture of him with two others apparently working on an engine with the nacelle panels removed.
Caption: ถ่ายไว้ให้ไว้เป็นความทรงจำ ๆ



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[tgeezer]

Correction, ถ่ายเก็บไว้ it obvioously doesn't mean much to me either way!


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[eric67]

ถ่าย to take a picture

เก็บ to save it

ไว้ for later usage

 

I'd say something like: taken for remembrance (probably of him starting his new job)

[tgeezer]

Well done Eric, so it seems that ถ่าย is short for ถ่ายรูป, do you know if that is common?


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[jspill]

Yes it's common, Thais shorten things as much as possible. Think of ถ่าย as photograph (verb) and รูป as pic, so you don't need both. 

 

'Photographing it to keep as a memory' 

 

เก็บไว้ could be used for money as well, it's to save as Eric said, or keep / hold in reserve

 

เก็บ is used in 'gep dang' - when you ask a waitress to 'collect money'. So เก็บ is 'get', ไว้ is like 'hold in place', together เก็บไว้ becomes save

 

เฟส as 'phase' no it means facebook. It's 'face' spelt in thai letters, hence no translation. Again they shorten things as much as possible. No need to add the 'book' when it's clear from context, it's a Facebook status saying 'I'm about to delete inactive friends, those who are active click Like so that I won't delete you, thanks'

 

จะได้ไม่ลบ - literally 'so i will be able to not delete', in future tense

 

เคลื่อนไหว means to move / stir / get about, the negative form can mean motionless / stagnant / dead / still / inactive

 

In this context the closest English equivalent could be 'active', he only wants active friends who interact on Facebook (like his or her posts, comment, etc.) and is cutting the wheat from the chaff. English Facebook users call it a 'cull' when they mass delete facebook friends they rarely talk to, there'd be no way to translate that into Thai directly either, but it has similar meaning

 

If you can't find the post anymore you may have been unfriended :) 

[tgeezer]

I am not unfriended just too impatient to go through all the days Facebook trying to find it.
Another comment on a film of monkeys doing housework.
มีใครต้องการสาวใช้ขนดกไหม


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[eric67]

มีใครต้องการสาวใช้ขนดกไหม

Anyone needs a hairy maid?

 

This one seems pretty straightforward. 

[tgeezer]

I am posting Thai which is easy to understand which I hope may throw up some points for discussion.

I translate it as, Is there anyone who would like to have a hairy maid. The thought being, Does anyone fancy it?
I daresay that need = want to many people but I would argue that being hairy is not something which affects her performance as a maid.







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[capo 5]

Where you translated "phase" it more likely is face as in face book

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[tgeezer]

Where you translated "phase" it more likely is face as in face book

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Exactly, this topic refers to context and the difficulty of making a translation without it, 'phase' was the Google suggestion made without context.


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[tgeezer]

กำลังจะลบ friend ที่ไม่ มีการเคลื่อนไหวกัน ใครเคลื่อนไหวเฟสเรา กด like หน่อยนะคะ จะได้ไม่ลบ ขอบคุณ
Typical, now I can't find the post again on Facebook, it was a post of a friend of a friend.
What drew my attention to it was การเคลื่อนไหว which had been translated as 'movement' and เฟส as 'phase'.
It also translated จะได้ไม่ลบ as 'don't delete' I remember. I think that this is a good example of how the words chosen to translate depend on context without which machines often fail.
 
What it did get was กำลังจะ as 'about to' which I didn't know.
 
 
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เฟส was an aside, being an English noun it is asking a lot of Google but เคลื่อนไหว is a different story.
The point is that when I read that I know that it means: "I am about to unfriend people who don't interact with me, hit like, if you don't want to be deleted. Thank you.
Now backtranslating I start out : เดี๋ยวจะ unfriend คนที่ไม่ now I am stuck if I don't know มีการเคลื่อนไหวกัน I would probably say เต็นรำคับผม .
Do people who, like Google, have thousands of equivalent words in their heads have the same problem?