Another rural idiom

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Re: Another rural idiom

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that genius wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 7:12 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 6:33 pmRuy Dtom Min Bach, Ruy Min P'al
The fly lands and he/she won't wave it away, the fly knows and doesn't panic(fly away)
FTFY..or how I think it makes better sense...the English at least, my Khmer is minimal, but much the meaning is implied

It involves a kind of communication/knowing between animal and man, which is very prevalent in animism/Theraveda Buddhism
yeah, of coarse, although my focus isnt the English translation,
my focus is the breaking down of the Khmer words used to find the source/roots of the idiom
:tophat: Mean Dtuk Mean Trei, Mean Loy Mean Srey
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