DFF language notes and observations
This was originally just supposed to be a quick look at Non's meds in ep. 8 but then I finished watching the episode and felt compelled to rewatch the entire show š« So might as well collect everything into one post!
Disclaimer: not a native Thai speaker, still learning š
ąøąø¹ąøąøą¹ąøąø© ąøąø¢ą¹ąø²ą¹ąøąø²ąøąø·ąøąøąø¹ą¹ąø„ąø¢ /guu khaaw thoht. yaa ao kheuun guu loei/ = "I'm sorry. Don't take revenge on me/Don't get back at me."
The present takes place in 2023, the past was three years ago, in 2020. Apart from White, the boys are all the same age according to the character overview below, which makes them all 19-20 years old in the present (while White is 18 and a freshman).
In the past up to ep. 8, they would have been 16-17 years old and in 11th grade (ąø”. 5/3 -> Matthayom 5, class 3; ąø”. stands for ąø”ąø±ąøąø¢ąø” /mat tha yohm/ = secondary school).
In the present, I swear every other word out of his mouth is a swear and the subs don't always make it obvious. An example of when he's speaking calmly in ep. 3:
ą¹ąøąø£ąø²ąø°ąøąøąøąø¢ą¹ąø²ąøą¹ąøą¹ą¹ąø«ąøµą¹ąø¢ąøą¹ąøąøąøą¹ąø° ą¹ąø”ą¹ąøąøąøą¹ąø”ą¹ąøąø„ą¹ąøąø¢ą¹ąø«ą¹ą¹ąøąøąø²ąøŖą¹ąøąøą¹ąøąøµą¹ąø¢ąø°ąø«ąø„ąøøąøąø”ąø·ąøą¹ąøąøą¹ąø²ąø¢ą¹ąø„ąø°ą¹ąø§ą¹ąø¢ /phraw khohn yaang ai hia Top a- maaeng khohng mai blaawy hai oh gaat baaep niia loot meuu bpai ngaai ngaai la woei/ = Because someone like that dipshit Top wouldn't fucking let an opportunity like this slip his hands so easily.
It's not like the others don't curse, they sure do lol, but Fluke does so even when not in a stressful situation, and it sticks out in contrast to White especially because the baby speaks so properly and politely to his phis.
Newspaper clipping (ep. 4)
ą¹ąøą¹ąøą¹ąøąøą¹ąøą¹ąøąøµą¹ą¹ąøą¹ąø”ąø¶ąøą¹ąø”ą¹ąø£ąø¹ą¹ąøąø±ąøąøąø²ą¹ąøą¹ąøąø° /bpen faaen ai Tee dtaae meung mei ruu jak aa Joe na/ = You're Tee's boyfriend but don't know uncle Joe?
The headline reads:
ąøąø²ąø¢ąøąø£ąø“ąøØąøąø²'ą¹ąøŖąøµą¹ąø¢ą¹ąøą¹'ąøąø²ąø¢ąøą¹ąøąøą¹ąø«ąøą¹ /dtaai bprit sa naa 'siia Joe' naai baawn yai/ = Mysterious death of 'bigwig* Joe' the gambling magnate**
ąøąøąøą¹ąøąø“ąøąøąø±ąøąøąøµąø”ą¹ąø²ąøąø§ą¹ąø² 300 ąø„ą¹ąø²ąø /faawk ngern ban chee maa gwaa 300 laan/ = Laundered money with over 300 million mule accounts
* ą¹ąøŖąøµą¹ąø¢ /siia/ = a rich guy who squanders money, a big spender in illicit businesses, mostly used for middle-aged men; it's used as a pronoun, hence why he's known as ą¹ąøŖąøµą¹ąø¢ą¹ąøą¹ /siia Joe/ and we hear his subordinates call him ą¹ąøŖąøµą¹ąø¢ /siia/, often subbed as Boss; it's a term of Teochew origin that describes an aristocrat's son, originally
** ąøąø²ąø¢ąøą¹ąøąøą¹ąø«ąøą¹ /naai baawn yai/ = big shot gambling den boss or the boss of a huge gambling den
The snippet on the right is another easter egg btw - 'Talking to Pond Krisda, director of "Man Suang", Thai filmmaking [...]' but I can't make out the rest in that box (the snippet above that, too, though some of it I can tell says tourists, free visa, 3 months).
What the boys call Non is (ą¹ąøą¹)ą¹ąø”ąø·ąøąø /(ai) meuuak/ which is more like Slimy or Mucous, actually.
Gang of senior high teens accomplices to mule accounts
Police does 180: Senior high teens escape lawsuit for shady mule accounts
High school kid goes missing at same time as teacher in leaked clip
Connected to case of shady mule account teens
Whoever actually leaked the clip has this pelvis x-ray saved that's labeled to be from that same year, 2563 aka 2020. The two files at the top look to be invoices.
When Phee goes to confront Non about the leaked clip, he's so furious that he switches from their usual ą¹ąø£ąø² /rao/ (= I; informal) + calling each other by name instead of using a 2nd pers. pronoun to calling both Non and Keng ąø”ąø¶ąø /meung/ (= you; impolite) and himself ąøąø¹ /guu/ (= I; impolite).
For reference, ąøąø¹/ąø”ąø¶ąø /guu, meung/ are the same pronouns the entire friend group use with each other, as male friends in Thai shows often do. Non, as the new addition to the group, is the only one who uses ą¹ąø£ąø² /rao/ + names, and Jin is the only who reciprocally uses these pronouns with him.
Lorazepam -> benzodiazepine; used for treating anxiety disorders, insomnia, seizures etc.
Sertraline -> antidepressant; used for treating clinical depression, PTSD, OCD, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder
Quetiapine -> antipsychotic; used for treating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression etc.
ąøąøµą¹ą¹ąø«ą¹ąøąøąøµą¹...ą¹ąø”ą¹ą¹ąøą¹ąø”ąøµą¹ąøą¹ąøąø§ąøą¹ąø£ąø² /thee haaeng nee...mai dai mee khaae puuak rao/ = In this place... it's not just us.
I'm sure there's more going on than just Phee and Tan infiltrating the group to get evidence and avenge Non. Like, Keng was on the phone with his contact Joy when he got hit by that white truck of doom car so I wonder if she's gonna come into play again in the present and who she really is.
And just for fun: that half-heartedly covered poster behind Tee looks suspiciously like a movie about a young chocolatier that shouldn't be out for another 3 years, according to the time line of this show lol
andulkaphoto
romaincrisis
gracieabrams
2087
areudirty
