Countryside pics and language fun!



These pictures were taken as we drove back from the coast at Christmastime. It is now harvest time for the rice so these are pictures of them harvesting. They do it all by hand. They bundle the rice in bundles, cut it and stack it. When they get a cartfull, they take it to the house. In front of their houses, they spread out tarps and beat out the rice by swinging a bunch and hitting it onto a wooden boards that are slanted down. The rice breaks off, slides down and lands on the tarp. Then it dries for awhile before it is sacked up. According to the papers, the crop this year is quite good.

Now for language...and any boys reading this might be careful. Anyway, Rebekah and I laughed and laughed at this one. When you are talking about females, the common ending is 'sray'. Friends are called 'pbookmac' or 'mutpac'. They will shorten the word 'friend' sometime to be 'mut'. So the other day during services, an illustration was given and he mentioned a girlfriend. In khmer, she is his 'mut sray'!!! (and yes, it sounds just like our 'mut' for a dog) Boys, perhaps you should call your girlfriends in the States 'mut sray' or you might not have her very long. (Oh! And by the way, then a boyfriend would be 'mut bro'!) Hope it made you smile. You're in our hearts! Ronda

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Unknown said…
Hello Dolan gang! Miss you and thinking of you. Your warm Christmas on the coast sounded fabulous! Sounds like yall are busy with many good things!

Heather Askew
January 19, 2008 at 10:03 AM
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