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more rural is idioms
OK, I just found(heard)another one related to speaking which is "nihyey krolech kraloch". The meaning is to speak from both sides of the mouth, I.e. to say one thing and then to say the opposite.
Rural Cambodians frequently attribute this style of speaking to the former King Sihanouk.
Rural Cambodians frequently attribute this style of speaking to the former King Sihanouk.
As my old Cajun bait seller used to say, "I opes you luck.
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Re: more rural is idioms
tried translating it for you, but i cant find a "krolech or Kraloch" in the dictionary
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Re: more rural is idioms
Well actually I translated it already, but again I emphasize this is rural and needless to say doubtlessly dialectical. So it is best tested by your rural friends and not a dictionary. Dictionaries are grave yards where living speech goes when it is in its final death throws.
By the way try "kraloch", I might have heard wrong. It's the short " o" as in the French word
ecole..
By the way try "kraloch", I might have heard wrong. It's the short " o" as in the French word
ecole..
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oh of coarse, i like trying to discover the routes/origins of the idioms, by translating it directly then understanding the crossover into the meaning, i love idiomstaabarang wrote: ↑Sat Jun 03, 2017 6:41 pm Well actually I translated it already, but again I emphasize this is rural and needless to say doubtlessly dialectical. So it is best tested by your rural friends and not a dictionary. Dictionaries are grave yards where living speech goes when it is in its final death throws.
By the way try "kraloch", I might have heard wrong. It's the short " o" as in the French word
ecole..
i wont give up, but i might translate a song this afternoon
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Re: more rural idioms
OK , Jamie I'll double check my usual infallible source, my better linguistic half, to see if my phonetics are off.
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Re: more rural idioms
yeah i always find it difficult trying to read a barangs phonetics as everyone has different ways of trying to spell shit, depending on their accent/place of origin
me i generally use the khmer romanizaton, which in itself often dont spell anything like they sound, but ive learnt their way, and even thats not always the same due to their lack of knowledge of the english language lol
for eg.
ពៅ - (khmer way) = Pov, (barang way) = Pow/Pau
ហើយ - (khmer way) = Hery/Hauy, (barang way) = Howie
អ្វី - (khmer way) = Avei, (barang way) = Awei/Awey
ផ្ទះ - (khmer way) = Ptas/Pteas, (barang way) = Pteah
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Re: more rural is idioms
I don't think that's a rural idiom. I've heard it before and just asked my girlfriend and she knows it too (and she's from PP). So technically I think it's not a rural idiom but simply a Khmer one.
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Re: more rural is idioms
can you get your missus to write it in khmer script for me? perweezeBitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:02 pm I don't think that's a rural idiom. I've heard it before and just asked my girlfriend and she knows it too (and she's from PP). So technically I think it's not a rural idiom but simply a Khmer one.
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Sorry Jamie, no Khmer keyboard.
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Re: more rural is idioms
if youre able to upload photos, next time, ask if you can get someone to write them on a piece of paper and i can copy it form there,
theres so many different ways to spell khmer words with the multitude of similar sounding consonants and vowels,
similar to words in English like Where, Wear, Were, Ware, There, Their, Theyre, To, Two, Too etc. etc.
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