We Are Not Have-Nots

Khmae has at least two distinct words to describe financial poverty of a person. Interestingly, their word for a rich is the same as their word for "to have." A rich person is "a person who has." Usually dichotomies like this in the language are resolved like "a person who has" and "a person who doesn't have" for rich and poor, but for some reason, they created new words for poor....

Peace out.