General Chatter wrote:Samouth , you can lead a horse/ buffalo to water but you cant make him drink....if you really wanted to know the meanings you would look up on line all the idioms folks have shared...


dont ask for anymore definitions until you have looked them up first, or do you really wanna be spooned feed...

come on Mr General Chatter. How come you know i don't read all the things people shared. I did read them. I am so happy that many people put some input here so i can learn. I asked question because i wonder and i want to get answer from native speaker. Ask me anything in khmer you don't understand, i will answer them all. Mr General Chatter

Lol, I was lost by that too GC. This is a good thread.

Samouth do you remember this? lol

Samouth wrote:

General Chatter wrote:Samouth , you can lead a horse/ buffalo to water but you cant make him drink....if you really wanted to know the meanings you would look up on line all the idioms folks have shared...


dont ask for anymore definitions until you have looked them up first, or do you really wanna be spooned feed...

come on Mr General Chatter. How come you know i don't read all the things people shared. I did read them. I am so happy that many people put some input here so i can learn. I asked question because i wonder and i want to get answer from native speaker. Ask me anything in khmer you don't understand, i will answer them all. Mr General Chatter

so what does that mean? Lead a horse to water....I not sure

General Chatter wrote:Samouth do you remember this? lol

OMG - he might look wasted, but he has a long memory
(Memory like elephant

General Chatter wrote:Samouth do you remember this? lol

Hey i do remember this General Chatter. It seems like you like this picture a lots. i guess you might keep viewing this picture million times per day. This picture looks really alike to your avatar and perhaps your real face.

yes i love it and now my girlfriend keeps it in her wallet.....so she can remember how handsome I am ...

Lead a horse to water...

Means you can give somebody the opportunity/tools to do something, but if they don't want to do it, it will fail.

one that seems to be used in only my County (province) back in England is that we dont greet people with
"Hello" we use the expression
"Now Then"
dont ask me to explain as it makes no real sense at all, i thought it was a general british thing but with having friends from all over they alway pick me up on it, or friends that have moved to my city its one of the things they said they first noticed and used to ask me what it meant lol
other words that we use around my area

"Now Then" = Hello
"Mardy" = Grumpy/angry = "Don't be Mardy"
"Me" = My
"Mucker" = Male Friend = "Coming for a beer me old mucker"
"Duck" = Friend = "Now Then Duck, Stop being Mardy and come for a beer me Old Mucker"
In england we quite often refer to girls as "Birds"
"Now then Duck, Stop being Mardy and come for a beer me old Mucker, i've got some Birds coming out too "

here are some simular variations that are also commonly used
"Ay Up" = Hello
"Youth" = Friend (generally younger) = "Ay Up Youth"
"Sen" = Self (used when labeling someone - Yoursen/Yourself - Mesen/Myself) = "Ay Up Youth, You looking after Yoursen(hi friend, are you alright)"
"Pub" = Public house - a traditional british style bar
"Tut" = To The = "Ay Up Mucker, Get Yoursen Tut Pub"
"Nowt" = Nothing
"Summin/Summet" = Something
"Love = addressing a female (can be seen as nice or sleezey depending on the girl)
"Reet/Alreet" = Alright
"Wanna" = Want to
"Ay Up Love, you Reet? I've Got Nowt to do, you wanna do summin? fancy getting yoursen up tut pub for a drink?"

i could go on all day, but this is every day talk back home and no one understands me anywhere i go, always have to repeat myself, even when i recently spent 2 months in australia, i found it just as hard to speak to people there as i do over here, and as i said in another threat, i have to put on a broken english cambodian accent for pretty much everyone over here hahaha

Old Indian proverb Sarb, two eyes in jungle not necessarily one tiger maybe two one eyed tigers!

(Ain't Half Hot Mum)