It's because there are no spaces. We speed read by only looking at the first and last character and guessing the word, you can't do this in Khmer: I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde U...

I don't think anyone knows, the last study I could find was 1999 when it was 37%. But as most of the country is under 15 and the primary school completion rate is now so high (98% in 2012) you would expect that percentage to have gone up significantly. The fact nobody can be bothered to study it any...

I also don't think it makes sense to romanise Khmer. It's has a lot more characters than the English alphabet but that makes it far less ambiguous than English. My son who is 8 and bilingual is currently learning to read Khmer, he's been doing three hours a week for a few months and it's pretty amaz...

I think when it comes to speaking to Khmer it's best to speak as it's written to begin with. It's like the queens English, it might sound like you've got a stick up your arse but at least everyone understands it. Also when you speak like that you sound like a newsreader or someone in authority so th...

But I'd like to find out more about this. Especially if the romanization leads to higher literacy rates or functional literacy rates. It's due at least in part to Pol Pot and the KR who attempted to eradicate anyone educated - defined as being literate, or simply wearing glasses. Generational damag...

That's the joke (that's getting old already), no one knows what it means exactly other than it has sexual connotation.

I must have seen half a dozen people in the last few days wearing "what is kikilu t-shirts".

I would guess គីគីលូ, I think we should stick to កិកិលូ​ for the tatoo though.​

It's kikilu spelt gergerlu