Another new shopping center

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Re: Another new shopping center

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ok. If i took English so seriously, i would have been crazy by now. :)
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No, no, no....you should take it seriously because actually there is a BIG difference between "supermarket" and "mall" :D ;) . Take it easy....I'm just trying to confuse you on purpose, BUT yes, there is indeed a significant difference. .......now it's your term to choose.
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Honestly i lied you at the moment, i did took English language so seriously, especially when it came to Idioms, Expressions and proverbs. Yes there are some differences between mall and super market. I did some research after she told me. :)
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Re: Another new shopping center

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Ahhhhhhhh.....I love researches :)
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Re: Another new shopping center

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Soumy Phan wrote:Why laugh? Every Cambodians call it super market. Again We are not native speaker of English, so we actaully can't differentiate between Mall and Super Market. :)
I rarely hear any local say supermarket. Everyone calls it phsa tom'nerb which precisely translates to modern market.
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Soumy Phan wrote:Was once told by my Asian-Canadian cousin about the different between super market and mall. She said most of Cambodians used these two words wrongly. We called mall as super market. :) So having seen your first comment, i thought you were talking about this too. :beer3:
God, I've lived in Cambodia so long, I'm sure I've got them backwards now too, LoL. Dammit.
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flying chicken wrote:
Soumy Phan wrote:Why laugh? Every Cambodians call it super market. Again We are not native speaker of English, so we actaully can't differentiate between Mall and Super Market. :)
I rarely hear any local say supermarket. Everyone calls it phsa tom'nerb which precisely translates to modern market.
Young Cambodians who speak English did called it Super market.
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Re: Another new shopping center

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Does it have dinning tables? Or bad room furniture. Actually every khmer shop had bad room furniture. These people have the same tastes as Italian peasants in Australia. The awful balustrades, the blue glass and the shockingly ugly furniture.Oh and the lions outside.
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Re: Another new shopping center

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blockhead wrote:Does it have dinning tables? Or bad room furniture. Actually every khmer shop had bad room furniture. These people have the same tastes as Italian peasants in Australia. The awful balustrades, the blue glass and the shockingly ugly furniture.

Oh and the lions outside.




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