Bob+Harry

06/10/2006
da neak jol jay plah bomb tay?
Do you like apples?
Baah, kynom jol jay plah bomb
Yes, I like apples

The word for cucumber is hard to pronounce. You have to roll your tongue on the ‘dt’
Dtrong sot
There is a silent‘t’ on the ‘sot’

Tay, kynom men jol jay dtrong sot
No, I don’t like cucumber.

Maysien has been teaching me and Jordan Khmer. He has spent the last three years resisting but he has no excuse now. If he is annoying me I speak to him in Khmer and he soon shuts up. He knows if mum or dad hears the conversation they will make him answer me. If he pronounces something wrong he has to keep going till he gets it right. I try to repeat this exercise a few times everyday. Not only does it help my language but it’s also very funny.

soo much has happened its hard to tell all.
however....
The best joke I’ve heard since being here…and I’ve heard a lot!

A travelling faith healer stops at this town and prepares for an evening meeting. The crowds soon gather. He shouts at the top of his voice: ‘do you believe?’ they shout back ‘we believe’ he calls again ‘do you believe’ they shout even louder ‘yes, we believe’
He then calls into the audience for sick people to come and receive healing. A man called Harry comes onto the stage with clutches. The faith healer says ‘what’s wrong?’ Harry says ‘I want to walk again’ so the healer says ‘ok Harry wait behind this curtain.’
A second man walks onto the stage, his name is Bob. The healer says to him ‘what’s wrong?’ he says ‘I-I-I-I-I want to s-s-s-s-s-speak without a s-s-s-s-s-stammer’ so he says ‘ok Bob go behind this curtain.’
The faith healer then says

‘by the power given me I pronounce you healed.’
‘Harry drop your clutches and come out.’
‘Bob say something’

Bob replies ‘h-h-h-h-h-h-harrys fallen over’

(This had me laughing for hours)
Ben.