aesthete Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 i'm having trouble communicating the concept of a situation being awkward, and every english-thai dictionary i've looked at has failed. is there no such word in the thai language? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 www.thai-language.com provides over a dozen different translations of awkward! now you can choose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aesthete Posted March 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 that site is awesome. thanks for the tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 you are welcome! i have posted the link some time ago into the link section of this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 check http://www.babylon.com/definition/awkward/Thai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 I prefer a real teacher .. That link looks confusing ..to me anyway..to many letters floating about .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 ok Torney; how does goodnicethaigirl translate "awkward"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aesthete Posted March 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 as far as I can tell, there is no word that translates properly the concept of an "awkward situation" which is what I'm trying to communicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted March 11, 2008 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 I'm not bothered to go to the site Samak suggested (so sorry of it is already there), but how about: à ¸Âà ¸¥à ¸·à ¸?à ¹?à ¸¡à ¹?à ¹?à ¸?à ¹?à ¸²à ¸?à ¸²à ¸¢à ¹?à ¸¡à ¹?à ¸Âà ¸Âà ¸ (gleun mai kao kai mai ok). CHeers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted March 11, 2008 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 which means literally: what you can not swallow, you can not spit out ...and it was also among the over one dozen offered translations on the suggested website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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