The future of Cambodia looks increasingly Chinese
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Re: The future of Cambodia looks increasingly Chinese
The future of the UK looks increasingly chinese as well, and africa and many other places all over the world.
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We managed to turn the Hong Kong Chinese into civilised people, we can do the same with the mainlanders. If you get caught gobbing in the street in Waltham Forest it's a £60 on the spot fine, there are hundreds of bloody wardens crawling about the place. Most universities here now fund themselves off Chinese students. The main problem is having no social net to protect the weak and oppressed. They are unable to bulldoze a council estate and stick up a casino here, for example.tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:11 pm The future of the UK looks increasingly chinese as well, and africa and many other places all over the world.
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Khymer? LOLThis is great news for Khymer people . Their country will have money and resources poured into it by a world superpower . Poverty will become a thing of the past . The people can learn a new culture . Chinese language teachers will have lots of jobs .
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They bulldoze over stuff and put up luxury flats and then sell them to russian criminals, ex dictators and war criminals, arab oil billionares and any other jack the lad with "connections" who wants to park their untraceable money (and of course leave them empty)cptrelentless wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 7:13 pmWe managed to turn the Hong Kong Chinese into civilised people, we can do the same with the mainlanders. If you get caught gobbing in the street in Waltham Forest it's a £60 on the spot fine, there are hundreds of bloody wardens crawling about the place. Most universities here now fund themselves off Chinese students. The main problem is having no social net to protect the weak and oppressed. They are unable to bulldoze a council estate and stick up a casino here, for example.tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:11 pm The future of the UK looks increasingly chinese as well, and africa and many other places all over the world.
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Re: The future of Cambodia looks increasingly Chinese
haha cheers mate i can half read Thai writing, i know half the consonants confidently the other half im still distinguishing which are which, nice explanation thanks mate, its a relief that i hadnt unknowingly been calling Cambodians "Stinky" all these yearsUsername Taken wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:10 pmNo it does not.Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:00 pmDoes Khmen really mean "Stinky" in Thai?! :O
The Thai word for Khmer is เขมร. You will notice that there is a ร at the end of that word. It is the same as the ror in Khmer language, except that in the Thai pronunciation system when a word ends with ร it takes the sound of an 'n' or น. So it is pronounced Khmen, even though it is spelt Khmer.
Stinky or smelly is เหม็น, which does happen to be pronounced 'men'.
Mean Dtuk Mean Trei, Mean Loy Mean Srey
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Re: The future of Cambodia looks increasingly Chinese
You may have to ask more people. I’ve been told by a native speaker of both Khmer and Thai that that’s what it means. Not to rain on UT or so, but I hold native speakers highly in this regard. As far as I know, UT is a native speaker of neither, and so am I by the way. (English is hard enough.)
Maybe we can settle this over a few Brunty’s on my balcony when Jamie is back. We could invite everyone with a valuable opinion and just kick back and let them figure it out. Happy to host.
Maybe we can settle this over a few Brunty’s on my balcony when Jamie is back. We could invite everyone with a valuable opinion and just kick back and let them figure it out. Happy to host.
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BS its not true....fax wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:23 am You may have to ask more people. I’ve been told by a native speaker of both Khmer and Thai that that’s what it means. Not to rain on UT or so, but I hold native speakers highly in this regard. As far as I know, UT is a native speaker of neither, and so am I by the way. (English is hard enough.)
I speak thai
กลิ่น/glìn / smell,odor ,scent
เหม็น/ měn / bad smelling
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