More Country Speak

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taabarang wrote:Thanks for the feedback epidemics. Are you bilingual by any chance?
nah, beginner - struggling with reading on the grade 3 school book.
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Jamie_Lambo wrote:might try these out
its a pity we dont have audio clips on here
chhap is obvious - ឆាប់...but Chrawlaut ive tried looking for but cant find the khmer spelling to know the correct pronunciation
ឆាប់ ច្រលោត

Chrawlaut is how I'd write it englishly, but yeah it's always hard to tell other people's versions of transliteration/pronunciation.
ahh got it although the L is the other consonant apparently

ឆាប់
to be quick, fast; prompt; early, short (of time).
ច្រឡោត
to be enraged, be angry to the point of wanting to commit violence

i couldnt find the chrawlaut because i was putting too many vowels on the first constonant, id spell it just Chralaot, but then again ive not heard it spoken ill ask a friend later
ah yeah. I checked with the wife and she says she's always spelled it with ល​​​ rather than ឡ. She blames the change the decline of the language since Choun Nath died, though his dictionary has ឡ :lol:
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epidemiks wrote:
taabarang wrote:Thanks for the feedback epidemics. Are you bilingual by any chance?
nah, beginner - struggling with reading on the grade 3 school book.
Jamie_Lambo wrote:
epidemiks wrote:
Jamie_Lambo wrote:might try these out
its a pity we dont have audio clips on here
chhap is obvious - ឆាប់...but Chrawlaut ive tried looking for but cant find the khmer spelling to know the correct pronunciation
ឆាប់ ច្រលោត

Chrawlaut is how I'd write it englishly, but yeah it's always hard to tell other people's versions of transliteration/pronunciation.
ahh got it although the L is the other consonant apparently

ឆាប់
to be quick, fast; prompt; early, short (of time).
ច្រឡោត
to be enraged, be angry to the point of wanting to commit violence

i couldnt find the chrawlaut because i was putting too many vowels on the first constonant, id spell it just Chralaot, but then again ive not heard it spoken ill ask a friend later
ah yeah. I checked with the wife and she says she's always spelled it with ល​​​ rather than ឡ. She blames the change the decline of the language since Choun Nath died, though his dictionary has ឡ :lol:
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I heard that in Siem Reap, they use the word "S'doy" instead of "Sah-ey" meaning "What?".
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thelost wrote:I heard that in Siem Reap, they use the word "S'doy" instead of "Sah-ey" meaning "What?".
here down South i think "Ey-Ke?" is the most common form of "What?"

think it would be spelt... អីគេ
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Never heard sdoy, but have heard eh ke (the way I'd spell what Jamie wrote), and sah eh ke from Kampong Cham folk
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And of course" yang meuch.".
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epidemiks wrote:Never heard sdoy, but have heard eh ke (the way I'd spell what Jamie wrote), and sah eh ke from Kampong Cham folk
yeah heard sah eh ke also

maybe spelt សារអីគេ - Sar Ey Ke

សារ
letter, message, text; gist
សារ
to be true, exact

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Siem Reap have their unique way of speaking, so I wasn't surprised to hear some words that are pronounced in a very unique way.
sdoy would sound like this ស្ដយ

sah ey ke would be like this ស្អីគេ :D

here's another one country speak...."it's alright" - vea s'nom haey - វាស្នំហើយ
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I'm not really sure ... some people use yang na? យ៉ាងណា instead of yang met យ៉ាងមេច
again maybe its regional accent, probably.
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thelost wrote:Siem Reap have their unique way of speaking, so I wasn't surprised to hear some words that are pronounced in a very unique way.
sdoy would sound like this ស្ដយ

sah ey ke would be like this ស្អីគេ :D

here's another one country speak...."it's alright" - vea s'nom haey - វាស្នំហើយ

actually yeah ive found it,
ស្អី
colloquial form of អី or អ្វី

guessing its pronounced Sa'ey
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