FUBAR

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Re: FUBAR

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andy_morris wrote:
epidemiks wrote:ខ្ទេចខ្ទាំ

K'tech k'twam

Or

ខ្ទេច​ខ្ទី

K'tech​ k'tee


My wife says the latter is closer to fubar, with k'twam being more 'pain' than total destruction.
I'm still unsure why it is being romanised with a 'w'. As far as I'm aware that vowel doesn't have a 'w' sound attached to it at all.
Yeah there's no វ. The w isn't a literal transliteration, just the best I could convert it in my head. The vowel doesn't make a w sound, but ទាំ​ sounds to me like to-wam or toe-am so theres a w kind of there between the oe and the am.

Same with the ch. ខ្ទេច​ doesn't end with a hard ch sound, but I write it so I know what mouth position I need to bite off the end of the word.

Kuh teh Kuh toeam is perhaps better? Say that 3 times fast.

Anyway, took me about 20 minutes to be able to pronounce it.
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Re: FUBAR

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taabarang wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:11 pm
andy_morris wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:37 pm Ktikktwam doesn't sound like a khmer word at all. But I don't doubt you.
Maybe Jamie can help out. It may be a local word, but the villagers accept and use it.
yeah epidemics covered most of it

ខ្ទេច​ - Ktech (K'tek) means to be smashed to bits/pulverized
ខ្ទាំ - Ktoam (K'toam) means to be smashed to smithereens/shattered/broken to bits
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