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Government letters, condo notices and leases are written in what Thais call ภาษาราชการ: long sentences built from nouns (การ…, ผู้…), Buddhist Era dates, often Thai numerals, and a fixed letter skeleton of เรื่อง (subject), เรียน (to), อ้างถึง (reference) and สิ่งที่ส่งมาด้วย (enclosures), then a reason paragraph and a จึง… paragraph that says what you must do. Signatures carry the printed name in brackets underneath. Nobody talks like this: the same officer who signed the letter will explain it at the counter in everyday Thai. Thais find it heavy too, so ช่วยอธิบายเป็นภาษาง่ายๆ ได้ไหม is a perfectly normal request. Read in three moves: the subject line says what it is about, the จึง line says what to do, and the date says by when.
Find a notice near your lift and locate the subject, the "please do this" line and the date.
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