We are Malaysians, why speak like US or UK...
Nobody talk like Malaysians ???
Hmm~

Wa firdaus opening a whole can of worms eh...bahaya..later vroom vroom wor....
Jokes aside we do try to speak 'correct grammar' english but i also found some peninsula dudes speaks great english specially those who works in bigger MNCs.

English good also no use, cannot communicate, cuz the person you're speaking to has terrible vocab.

So you mix in some BM, some Hokkien, some Malaysian English (IE: Disengage (tak paham), Break it (paham)).

Common situation.

LOL

allinuff, of course when you speak to the other party you have to think 1st if they can understand or not ma. You go mamak of coz you speak their lingo. Tak kan you go tamu ground you speak queen's english?

I stopped reading shakespeare a long time ago

learnt something though, don't speak too fast, because angmoh ears cannot understand. They're not trained to pick up isi tersirat.

An example of a common, standard US accent (Sarimah Ibrahim):


An example of common Western Malaysian speaking English:

So what makes Akio Toyoda's horrible english compare to the redneck's ?

i like Prof Agus's english accent lolz

pek tow

im still waiting for oral pk...when where ????

Aiya, Fire whats wrong.
u so exposeds to the world and see so many things, and little thing like language can perturb you?
My friend chinese educated and really traditional upbrining but marry japanese communicate in ENglish and reside there. no problem for him too, and his gf not that good english.
Most important thing is LOVE not language. If you speak the language of LOVE, nothing reallyt matters does it?

why bother about acents?

ppl around the globe speaks with bdifferent accents. south africa, australia, new zealand, us, uk.

remember spoken language is differnet from writing. it becomes a problem when u write improper english in formal situation.

-lah, mah, is our signature accent. why lose it?

my english really bad and now i felt offended...

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Added on March 14, 2010, 6:15 pmi want to cekik u

This post has been edited by Pain4UrsinZ: Mar 14 2010, 06:15 PM

i tot sarimah accent was an Irish accent?
she was born and raise there before kambeng bak to malaysia....

People just think that I have a weird-ish American + British accent. (When I'm acting all pompous and trying my best not to make any mistakes obviously)

Can't be avoided really. I was raised without English spoken in the family. My brothers speak English with an odd English accent like mine and I took after them.