Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
My wife says there's no negative connotations. It means foreigner from a western country.
Cambodians need a word for this because they see a white person and don't know which country they're from...Europe, UK, Australia, America etc but they want to distinguish them from other foreigners eg Chinese etc.
Cambodians need a word for this because they see a white person and don't know which country they're from...Europe, UK, Australia, America etc but they want to distinguish them from other foreigners eg Chinese etc.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:03 am My kids have fits of laughter when I tell them that Joy Kinnear is a real person's name.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
The closest equivalent I could think of is referring to ''Africa'' instead of a specific country. In both cases you are lumping an entire continent together rather than distinguishing individual countries.
Cambodians refer to black foreigners as Afrique (pronounced a-freak) so I guess we follow one another's logic.
Cambodians refer to black foreigners as Afrique (pronounced a-freak) so I guess we follow one another's logic.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
Captain Bonez wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:20 pmUsername Taken wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:03 am My kids have fits of laughter when I tell them that Joy Kinnear is a real person's name.
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I could prove it, but you still wouldn't believe me.Captain Bonez wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:20 pmUsername Taken wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:03 am My kids have fits of laughter when I tell them that Joy Kinnear is a real person's name.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
"That barang have good heart", is patronising code; not a compliment.
Nor are "Fuck you barang" and "Fuck barangs." The best you could hope for here, is tourette's.
"All barangs are rich" is slanderous.
"Barang boom boom" is Australian stuttered dyslexia.
"It's okay to take from the barangs, they have plenty more," is cultural.
"Don't stare at the barang" would be hypocritical if it was ever said.
"Thanks for that and doing... and when you got to the bar, rang the bell," is about as close as you'll get to a compliment.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
Touch is a common name. I think Kunty is short for Kunthea, I have never come accross the name Kunty. Maybe something went wrong with the transcription from Khmer to Latin script?
Anyway, in a country where they call a beer 'Krud' everything is possible namewise I guess?
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^^
If we're talking about transcription of names from Khmer to Latin script, the most unfortunate one I can recall is the poor student that got run down on her moto and killed by the rich kid in daddy's Range Rover. The victim's name was Dum Rida. RIP
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If we're talking about transcription of names from Khmer to Latin script, the most unfortunate one I can recall is the poor student that got run down on her moto and killed by the rich kid in daddy's Range Rover. The victim's name was Dum Rida. RIP
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
A little off topic maybe, but where I was an apprentice, there was a guy by the name of Christopher Peacock, he was known by everyone as “Crispy Cock”.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?
Also off topic; I just attended a seminar in Hell.
Hell is located 1 kilometer south of the airport.
Hell is located 1 kilometer south of the airport.
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