Felgerkarb wrote:
My younger in-laws laugh and say I sound like an old person with some of my Khmer vocabulary I use, but it is still understood and is an acceptable usage.
I get the same thing "only old people talk like that".
I've been wondering if some of the official 'anti-barang' stuff is related to the 'remove Western thought' campaign in China. 'Barang ' is , generally, Westerner, hence they're not complaining about the large number of Chinese here.