Bite-Size Burmese: Oh, the Humanity!

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Humane, inhumane, humanitarian, humanize, humanist, subhuman—there are examples of English words derived from the root word Human . In Burmese, if you want to publicize something, you have to do it so that "men would know and monks would hear (လူသိရှင်ကြား)." If you have lost your influence, you'd become someone who "men don't respect and dogs don't fear" (လူမလေး ခွေးမခန့်). In this episode of Bite-Size Burmese, I introduce you to some colorful Burmese praises, insults, and expressions revolving around the word လူ (lu) for Human. (Intro and end music: "When my ukulele plays" by Soundroll, Upbeat.io.)
Vocabulary

လူဆန်တယ် to act in a human-like manner, to be humane

လူမဆန်ဘူး to act in ways unbecoming a human, to be inhumane

လူတောမတိုးဘူး to be socially awkward, to be unable to fit in

လူရာမဝင်ဘူး to fail to measure up, to be considered inferior

လူမလေး ခွေးမခန့် men don't respect (him), dogs don't fear (him), to be subjected to disdain

လူသိရှင်ကြား men would know and monks would hear, to publicize far and wide, to officially announce

လူတန်းစားခွဲခြားတယ် to discriminate based on social class

လူ့ဘောင် human society

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