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Learn our national language, you ignorant buffoons!
Fa Abdul
| November 22, 2015

While English is important, so is our national language and no citizen of this country has the excuse not to speak it well.
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What do you call a Malaysian who cannot speak Bahasa Melayu?

What do you call a Malaysian who is embarrassed to speak Bahasa Melayu?

What do you call a Malaysian who prefers to speak anything but Bahasa Melayu?

What do you call a Malaysian who upholds his/her native language at the expense of Bahasa Melayu?

I call them ignorant buffoons and you should too.

While fluency in our national language is not indicative of a person’s loyalty or love for his or her country, the inability to master one’s own national language does speak volumes of a person’s character.

Two weeks ago, we were shocked with news that 1000 medical graduates gave up on their dreams of becoming doctors despite having completed a two-year housemanship in public hospitals, because they lacked proficiency in English.

While many have blamed our education system for the appalling standard of English among our students and graduates today, we seem to forget that our national language is going down the same longkang too.

Seriously, if it is seen as important for medical doctors to possess a fluency in English in order to do their jobs well, is it not just as important that they have a good command of Bahasa Melayu for the very same reason?

I have met quite a few doctors who are unable to make themselves understood by their patients just as they are unable to understand their patients because of a language barrier.

Without a basic comprehension of either English or Bahasa Melayu, how do doctors ask about the medical histories of their patients so that they are able to recommend the best treatments for them?

Let us not forget, 70 per cent of us are native speakers of Bahasa Melayu – why then are we not making fluency in our national language an important skill to master for medical practitioners as well?

In all honesty, if Bahasa Melayu was made a compulsory subject to pass for our graduates, I foresee many more dropouts in our local universities compared to the number of dropouts today due to the lack of proficiency in English.

This brings me to the recent case of a DAP Member of Parliament who insisted on using English while debating a bill in Parliament despite being rebuked by the Deputy Speaker to speak only Bahasa Melayu.

Why the stubbornness?

While I, myself see no issue in using English in Parliament since our MPs are pandai-pandai belaka (I think-lah) and can comprehend the language, I wonder why it is so difficult to also be able to present one’s arguments in our national language when requested to do so.

In my honest opinion, anyone representing the people should be able to communicate effectively with all levels of communities, thus making the ability to converse well in our national language a priority. How else are you going to listen to the rakyat’s problems if you do not understand them?

Perhaps it is time for us to make the proficiency of our national language one of the fundamentals of citizenship in Malaysia.

I guess that would be the best way to rid this country of ignorant buffoons.

I guess he didn't look at mirror lately

Ignorant Buffon lol

She, not he.

In all honesty, if Bahasa Melayu was made a compulsory subject to pass for our graduates, I foresee many more dropouts in our local universities compared to the number of dropouts today due to the lack of proficiency in English.



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not compulsory?

Malas nak comment la

Nanti kena lipot lagi kata i flamebait la racist la

Tak boleh terima kritik = apj8188 flamebait

Tsk tsk tsk

Malay ke, Eng ke, Chinese ke, Indian ke

Learn so much buat apa? Make it standardized la.. we learn bm and understand our doctor and when we go out to other country to seek for medical care, Tak Boleh faham pula

No point

Fa Abdul surely a bodo guy. It's important to learn both if you want to survive in bolehland. English as to learn and to convey.. While bahasa to convey only.. medical studies la

But having poor proficiency in English is like working as a barber without knowing which one is the scissors and which one is the comb. Fa Abdul bodo

bahasa 1Malaysia!!!!!!

She did say - While English is important, so is our national language and no citizen of this country has the excuse not to speak it well.

I wish they could just invent a new language and make everyone on earth use it.

Esperanto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

But can't make everyone on earth use it.

It's good also wat ..........

if semua pandai bahasa 1Malaysia and nobody speaks English, then no one can migrate!!

Everyone will stay in this country FOREVER!!

And then we can bubarkan TalentCorp.

I don't agree with that. You can't force people to learn a languagr which is not your mother tongue language.

Since Malaysia is a multiracial country, to reflect its identity, why dont everyone speak Bahasa, Mandarin and tamil?... There you go.. The hypocrisy of each and everyone of us will arise

Then its hopeless and just wait to die loh.

So.. When to change from www.moe.gov.my to www.kpendidikan.gov.my

Www.tresuary.gov.my to www.kewangan.gov.my/www.perbendaharaan.gov.my
Feel shame to Malay language?

This post has been edited by ganz: Nov 22 2015, 03:02 PM

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We only have one national language, which is Malay.

I actually agree with most of what she said, not the ignorant buffoons part.

By ignorant Buffoon, I trust she is referring to rempit?

To that writer. Try go out of Malaysia and see BM can bring you how far? Bagai katak dibawah tempurung. Which language used most at other country?

English or BM? When I go Europe can BM help me when I ask around? You need English you Buffon.

Errr...did you read the whole article? She said English is important. But so is our national language.

As if BM is merely an optional subject in our primary and secondary schools.

But BM is a compulsory subject and we learned it for at least 11 years.

During my Form 5, some Chinese and Indians consistently outscored the Malays in BM, till our BM teacher held a 'chat' with the Malay students in our class. If they expect us to write the "bahasa berbunga-bunga", that's very hard for us to do because we are non-native speaker of BM.

BM is our national language and I respect that. But we have to be practical as well. Truth is the application of BM is very limited in business and science. Not only its usage, the vocabulary is limited as well. I would say the peoples who refuse to recognize the importance of English or refuse to learn a third language are also ignorant as well. They'll complain after refused employment by the private sector and end up leeching in government agencies.

Many of them will say the Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, French, Germans, Russians are successful without English. Mind you that the Malaysian heritage, work ethic, culture and history are very different than those countries. Are we one of the kuasa besar dunia? What we have to offer to the world till they have to learn BM to master it?

Guess the writer is one of the many who are impressed by Banglas' ability to speak BM fluently in six months and ready to share his/her tongkat with Banglas.

This post has been edited by HITMAN316: Nov 22 2015, 03:11 PM

asalkan sayang negara, cintakan keamanan, penegak keadilan bahasa apa pun warganegara yang baik

kalau hati busuk, suka songklap, benci membenci boleh cakap bm terbalik pun penyangak musuh negara

later protek protek will beat u up..how

Ignorant Buffon, the writer is. Out National Language is Bahasa Malaysia, not Bahasa Melayu. Now go dai.

Lol why u talking about going overseas?
Did you not learn English in Malaysia?
What is the problem for learning our national language?
No need to be superb at it, just enough to converse with kampung people or when go mamak etc..
BM is widely use in Malaysia, so what the fuss.
Even all sciences subject in school is taught in english nowadays. In university too, except UKM.

Topkek all the people talking about this like it is a big issue.
Nobody stopping you to learn any language you want to.
But BM is our national language, and majority of citizen can converse in BM.
So what is the problem?

they will say u tak suka u keluar

u know la...a team lead by JAMAL YUNOS- THE IDIOT

first jawi writing died soon bm also gg.

welcome to england language land!!

here another idiot. national language, so? not like can bring u anywhere....

so far only govr companies still backward use BM.


others fully english or english+ mandarin or english + others(depending on origin country of the company)

Any language is important. The more the merrier. Heck I just used BM couple days ago in an Indonesian grocery shop here in taipei since the shop fellas Chinese was incomprehensible.

thats the truth

i actually agree with this. just treat it like learning an extra language lah, apa susah?

i dont understand why some of u are talking about using BM overseas, practicality and what not. ego itu tolong simpan sikit, hokey?

you know a stupid writer when u read this kind of article

yes Fa Abdul is retarded and probably just managed to pass BM anyway.

otherwise she wouldve known those who went uni already passed SPM in which BM is compulsory to pass.

Fa Abdul = fucked up writer.

Never support dap, they are anti establishment

just learn malay for unity la...

you guys want malay to accept you guys, but refuse to learn the language....


topkek...

protek protek protek

This post has been edited by weyyt: Nov 22 2015, 03:22 PM

only in malaysia doctors need to proficient in english.... i others countries some doctor cant speak in english at all but still manage to treat patient and become a doctor...

I learned Bm for many years and achieve it..

but where it has bring me to?


nowhere.




when I learn English, Mandarin and Cantonese


it has allowed me to speak to people from different countries.



excel in BM doesn't make u Malaysian enough

Due to this "controversy", everyone forgets previous national issues.

diversion achieved.

So, using BM means backward.
and using English means high keras/well educated/white powah.

HAHAHAHA
GOV = Majority malaysians can understand BM. They use that as formal language only. I think beside BM still got translation to other languages.

But, when you go to any gov agencies. Do they force you to speak BM?
Also, when you go any police station or anywhere, you still can converse in english.
It is just a language, just like singaporean use BM in army as formal. What is the fuss?
You can speak english, nobody is stopping you but our national language is BM.

To me the more languages you know the better. English is most important but no language is truly useless. Especially one that >50% of your countrymen speak as a first language.

The red shirt rempits that refuse to learn and are proud of not knowing English are definitely dumb though.

become bomoh no problem.
what do u call aneurysm and lupus vulgaris in BM?

protek, jangan tak protek.

this single post, shows how segregated malaysian citizen is...

malay dgn malay, chinese dgn chinese, indian dgn indian....

I think every Malaysian should know english, malay, mandarin and tamil. I mean, we've lived alongside each other for more than 50 years. Maybe these 4 languages should be compulsory subjects in school. We wouldn't bicker about the usage of language anymore.

yes because its in Malaysia only. Me are not interested to stay Malaysia forever. Thats why I make sure I study hard and graduate, so that I can leave this country forever.

they will say cakap BM la..cakap bahasa omputih buat apa.


maybe u are lucky? bcos I still have to type in BM when report in police station...

True dat.
All are egoistic mafaka.

bam.

Agreed with this... Like how the European country has done....

Of course must type in BM, it is our formal language...
You just dont get it~ Useless talking to you.

ni lah jenis2 yg die die pun nak defend maruah.

Cannot affect the fact that in international stage English > BM. If lidis, ask bijan to ckp in BM when tokking to Obama la ok? Since u so bangga bout ur maruah. kek

Don't know if people never read the whole article or they comprehended it differently.

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die die still wnat to defend BM



tell me what u achieve learning BM.



I learn because I were forced to.



see the state of our BM now...all end up jadi bahasa rempit

we have many defenders here...

super agree in the bolded part. Even BM 'borrow' or derive words from English. Have we seen English 'borrow' or derive words from English? kek

gotta face the truth, English is the go to language in some of the science field.

the prob is not Malaysians cannot speak it. the prob is only certain types of BM accents n slangs are acceptable by certain ppl.

no one goes around saying that "oh Australian English accent is unacceptable. only New York English accent is the right one"

i think we shud learn to embrace the many accents n slangs of BM used by minorities.

We cant all be speaking Malay with a rempit accent.

This post has been edited by jonny4: Nov 22 2015, 03:44 PM

English is almost a universal language.

Unless the Malays can come up with some kind of wonderful invention or have the economic clout I see no reason as to why it should override English.

Most fark up in life can be avoided if we could all communicate clearly with one another.

Imagine the wastage of printing different languages around the world. We are talking about globalization today.

In the past most countries are isolated and thus the local language play a part. The sharing of scientific knowledge is in English so to advance you must be proficient in English.

But which version of BM should we learn?

Even with good grades in BM, I find that in general Malaysians rarely use the BM we learned in school.

You go pasar, they use bahasa pasar, then Malay accuse you for not learning BM.

You talk with rempit, they use their own creation of BM.

You watch/read Malay articles, or Malay shows or news, and found that Malay language used by Malay themselves are mixed or copied English.

Personally Malay should take charge of standardizing BM for everyone, because as of the current trend it seems like they themselves are keep changing their language in order to sound high class.

Most other popular languages are so standardized that it's applicable to anywhere in the world.

However if I were to speak Malay that is taught in school with my Malay peers its as if I'm speaking a foreign language with them. Heck, kelate should be recognize as another country altogether.

Tldr kalo nak kaum lain ckp melayu korang kenalah tetapkan standard yg betul supaya org lain blh ikut. Kalo x jgn slhkan org lain sbb korang pon x fasih bahasa sendiri dlm menetapkan standard yg betul.

Then help the language to evolve la... Just put other language's word, we dont care...

you know, like kaotim, cincai, taiko....

Its not about business or science... its about unity and social life...

Having to have to learn a language just because the gomen says it's important? How useful is it in the international level? You don't attract people by forcing people to use it, you attract people to use the language by making it relevant. So far, I only see it's relevance in local gomen office.
People eat soft, not hard. The more you force people to do something, the more the people will not want to.

how far can unity and social life brings us? Compare it to how far can business and science brings us.

whats the point having good business and science if you dont have a good unity and social life?

Pls use bm when outside of Msia
C how many ppl will understand u

Dei just learn languages that people around you use la.

Language is a means of communication. It doesn't matter what language you use as long as the other party understands the message you are conveying.

Fixed, lol.

just learn n master both malay and english language la noobs..

it's not so hard..you don't have to be very very fluent or have to learn till the core of the language down to the accent aspect and speaking like bangsawan Melayu zaman kesultanan melayu melaka or English natives..

Unity and social life can be achieved in other methods. But in business and science, no choice but to use English.

Unity can be achieved with educations, equal rights etc. Social life, it's up to the person la, nak guna bahasa apa. Coz it's their social life.

But when it comes to dealing with business and science thing, better to use English imo.

I am fluent in bahasa

where it had bring me to? nowhere

Manusia jugak.

Standard Malay or Pasar Malay?

I think many Malays underestimate the literacy of Standard Malay among non-Malays

but problem is, people dont think its malay because it doesnt carry the day to day lingo.

i mean, most of the time i read msgs that use malay, i cant understand a shit, and when a few malay guys get together i also cant understand shit

yet in class i can understand

Migrate Kah Tidak is another case, imagine u need to get brain surgery operation in USA, how to communicate?

malas lah

typical kampung people, name malaysian MUST speak english or malay, you choose to be malaysian? hell no.

what logic is that, taliban.

we have no freedom to choose where we born, but we have freedom to choose what we want in real life.

This post has been edited by adolph: Nov 22 2015, 04:09 PM

but people like in the n news link refuse to

maybe it didn't get anywhere but it's still knowledge..no loss in gaining any sort of knowledge..

not maybe, it does lead me to nowhere.

Helps to tackle aweks.

come on


same goes to biology chemistry physics

This post has been edited by big[1]: Nov 22 2015, 04:12 PM

Because learning Bahasa has no benefits. Trolllolololol

hey i learn Jawi, and it doesn't get me anywhere..but I don't care..still a knowledge..

u go to some part in uk and us also sound not like some english u learn in school lah bro.

bahasa pasar is informal bahasa melayu, spoken everywhere outside, not just in pasar.

formal bahasa melayu is use in formal events. just like when u learn other language, like korean and japanese, there are formal and informal version of communicating.

language is always evolving as time goes by. u compare kamus dewan jilid 1 with latest jilid also got many differences.

same with oxford dictionary 1st version with latest version. same goes with all other language around the world. even u talk chinese people nowadays using sia sui. its not even in mandarin dictionary.

malay language. is always standardized. as long you use the malay u learn in school, you can speak malay outside just fine.

bahasa melayu from kelate, ganu, pahang, kedah, penang etc is the localized version of the language. it is accent. u no need to learn those to communicate. just need to adopt. like texas english, irish english, uk english, aussie english canadian english. heck, even english got a lot of accent. u went to talk normal english with rednecks its as if u speak foreign language with them.

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eh eh bodo. Who asked you to speak rempit language? You see Indonesian scholars, or even those foreigner who took Malay study, they speak in a very nice language. If people hate BM because of the way rempit speak Malay, then both of them are stupid. I really hate DBP because they too laid back & do nothing causing Malay going down to longkang as the author said. Maybe we should make Anwar PM, so he can go back make the use of BM more strict.

Malay is, as far as I know, is the easiest language to learn. It's a combination of multiple languages, thus foreign tongue are familiar with the language. You can say it's the Esperanto of ancient days, the difference is that it was used.

but i can talk both
so i get MP post + directorial post at x100 GLCs sit home goncang telur wait allowances anot?

joe_mamak I am not interested .

kerolzarmyfanboy good but I interested in other language also, but not BM

Why? What's wrong with the language?

If that is the case, Malay can't accuse non Malay unable to converse in BM.

Most of us that spent 11 years in national school are able to converse in BM just fine. We just not equipped to converse in various native slangs like the native Malay do.

And by that logic, non Malay can't be accused of putting English because most of us can't speak Queen English with an Cockney accent.

bcos now its divided to

bahasa pasar

bahasa rempit



so it cut off my interest in bm already, so no way


but still I speak BM as I have no choice, but i make sure I speak english or other language only

Fine.

I don't mind using BM. I actually wish I had a better command of it.

I don't see what is the problem, at least for me.

I am older but I will continue to make an effort.

I will also try to improve on my Mandarin.

I don't see why I have to limit myself like it is beyond my abilities.

Some just refuse to. Not that they can't.

That's some of the people the writer is referring to.

Knowing BM is not about excelling in anything. It just your obligation as being the citizen of that nation.