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- Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:58 am
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: More Country Speak
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15868
Re: More Country Speak
@ Username Taken I can't find it funny, I mean, well maybe because I'm not a native Khmer speaker. It's kind of like whoever can roast each other the most get the most laughter. Or something. @Jamie Lambo Yep, I got ya. British English and Australian English are not much different. Someone who is be...
- Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:15 am
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: Important Conjunction Words
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4410
Re: Important Conjunction Words
youve mentioned you can read/write khmer, it would be good if you could add this to your examples as well, i personally am no longer a fan of romanized khmer tbh I know what you mean, I guess from now on, I'll write both in Khmer script and Romanised for others like taabarang. You know, I have wond...
- Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:09 am
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: Regional Cambodian Dialect/Accent
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12834
Re: Regional Cambodian Dialect/Accent
https://youtu.be/0oto3H_KAWU Lol I never listen to Sin Sisamouth song so not sure what you mean. yeah thats why i thought it might have had some secret meaning like the rest of the play on words in Raybulls links some secret meaning that we dont know about and was an internal joke that we was never...
- Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:02 am
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: More Country Speak
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15868
Re: More Country Speak
i know in PP they often drop their R's but i do notice down in SHV the Rolled R is usually very predominant in a lot of the speech and is rarely dropped its one thing i like about SHV speech about the N, yeah think you are right, its one thing i actually noticed recently Yeah SHV rolling their Rs a...
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:00 pm
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: More Country Speak
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15868
Re: More Country Speak
Guys, I just realised something that I want to share about everyday speak that is spoken throughout Cambodia. I think it's a trick or a pattern. When you encounter a word that has the N ending in the middle of the word, the sound is changed. Let me illustrate an example. The written word for Marijua...
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:45 pm
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: Important Conjunction Words
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4410
Important Conjunction Words
I think these conjunction words are very important. They are like the mortar that holds the bricks together. Without mortar, the bricks fall apart. But then I think some conjunction words are not necessary used as we all know spoken language sometimes drop these words... so I think these are the mos...
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:38 pm
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: More Country Speak
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15868
Re: More Country Speak
to me, personally, i think it's like this taa mech? - what did you say? huh what do you mean? say again? yang mech? - how come? why is it like that? sah ey ke? - huh??? kind of different usage in different context but i could be wrong because i'm still learning khmer. also "taa mech" in my...
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: More Country Speak
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15868
Re: More Country Speak
i think sah ey is more like an abrupt version of ey?
kind of like....huh????
from personal experience, i dont think it's used with people who are older than you i.e. elders. i got smacked.
kind of like....huh????
from personal experience, i dont think it's used with people who are older than you i.e. elders. i got smacked.
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:24 pm
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: Regional Cambodian Dialect/Accent
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12834
Re: Regional Cambodian Dialect/Accent
I think you're onto something, Jamie. The quote from the link provided by Raybull "In Khmer language, you can alter a phrase into a list of unrecognizable words by transpose the different syllables to obfuscate the meaning." But I admit that when i read that you could reverse the words, fo...
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:15 pm
- Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
- Topic: More Country Speak
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15868
Re: More Country Speak
I'm not really sure ... some people use yang na? យ៉ាងណា instead of yang met យ៉ាងមេច
again maybe its regional accent, probably.
again maybe its regional accent, probably.