Stories, cows and husbands that wander

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Thank you for the friendly prod, but my reading in French, German, and Romanian keeps me quite busy. I know you do not approve of my rustic Cambodian, but it serves me well with not only my fellow illiterate village friends and neighbors, but throughout Cambodia.
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I don't disapprove of it at all. I'm not sure why you think that, but I do think that learning to read Khmer accelerates the learning process in many ways. I spoke Khmer without being able to read it for years, when I finally took the plunge and learned to read I found it accelerated my learning a lot.
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bahasa is easy to learn with 21 characters and phonetic. one official transliteration.
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Yeah Frank, the comparative simplicity of Bahasa compared to Khmer certainly has its charm, but unfortunately I live in Cambodia, not Indonesia, Malaysia, or someplace where there is a significant diaspora of Bahasa speakers.
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a push for an accepted transliteration using phonetics would be a boon for both Khmer and Barang.
given the hodge podge willy nilly status quo is it not a cause to advocate for?
it is politically charged historically this subject.

the founders of modern Indonesia saw the value in the model.
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Sadly as I'm learning Khmer I'm rapidly forgetting Bahasa - last time we were in Sumatra (the restaurant in TTP) I opened my mouth to have a full conversation with the Indonesian lady who runs the place, and tripped over which greeting to use for the time of day. She blinked in confusion as we've chatted before.
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