StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:37 pm I'm constantly forgetting that a closing R is usually an H.

Any other teachers get called "cha" (contraction of teacher) by their students as a term of endearment/respect?

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:00 pm

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:37 pm I'm constantly forgetting that a closing R is usually an H.

Any other teachers get called "cha" (contraction of teacher) by their students as a term of endearment/respect?

you mean a closing S?

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:02 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:00 pm

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:37 pm I'm constantly forgetting that a closing R is usually an H.

Any other teachers get called "cha" (contraction of teacher) by their students as a term of endearment/respect?

you mean a closing S?

Sigh ... yes. See?

taabarang wrote:"Any other teachers get called "cha" (contraction of teacher) by their students as a term of endearment/respect?"

They may be playing with the final syllable of tea (cher) and chas (old). I don't know how endearing Khmer teacher of English would find it.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:18 pm

taabarang wrote:"Any other teachers get called "cha" (contraction of teacher) by their students as a term of endearment/respect?"

They may be playing with the final syllable of tea (cher) and chas (old). I don't know how endearing Khmer teacher of English would find it.

It has nothing to do with chas/old. It's just a shortened version of teaCHER. I don't know why they say it, maybe the first batch of Khmer English teachers thought it was OK and it trickled down for years. I have some teacher friends who mention it as well as say it annoys them to no end, so they force them to say the full word (since it's not even an accepted word/abbreviation). I don't know how/why they started that. Maybe they think it's OK because in Khmer one can shorten nekrou/lokrou to simply krou.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:56 am Just to be clear: but moite is a bit rude. Other examples by Jamie are better IMO, so is "Kum moite" (no mouth). A polite way of saying be quiet/wait.

taabarang wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:00 pm "Just to be clear: but moite is a bit rude. Other examples by Jamie are better IMO, so is "Kum moite" (no mouth). A polite way of saying be quiet/wait."

Well to be even more clear on the issue "Shut up", the command I was asked to translate , is also considered impolite by civilized English speakers. I strive for accuracy in n translation, not euphemism.

Spoiler:

Although, I was asking for euphemism ...