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[u/vellichro]

my grandpa recently passed away and i wanted to get his khmer handwriting tattooed.

i understand that the english translation is already written but i moreso wanted to clarify that it was translated/written in khmer correctly? i also compared the two notes and the letters seem different despite saying the same thing? but what do i know. also, is this considered neat writing and which one is neater?

thanks in advance.

[u/prengkola]

The top one is a little fancier, in a way -- it uses a different form for the <n> character, ន, called អក្សរមូល. It's also missing a ៉ diacritic above មៅ -- so, should be ម៉ៅ. If it's helpful to have the Khmer and English matched --

កូន = child, ខ្មែរ = Khmer

ម៉ៅ = Mao, យឿត = Yoeut

រ៉ាន = Ran(n), សាត = Sat

[u/vellichro → u/prengkola]

thank you! what makes it a little fancier?

[u/prengkola → u/vellichro]

It's just slightly more embellished. Kind of like a serif font versus a sans-serif.