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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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..

malas lah

typical kampung people, name malaysian MUST speak english, 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.

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

Why? What's wrong with the language?

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.

Why do you need to speak it in bahasa pasar & rempit if you can speak it normally like in the 90s?

if say lidis, english oso got hipster language.

English Hipster = bahasa rempit

example of hipster vocab - devo, lol, my bad, rack (boob), chillax, yolo, fomo

I am not against learning BM, I'll learn it for the sake of knowledge. But the importance of BM, is only seen inside of Malaysia. While for international affairs regarding business and science, better stick to English imo.

since when melei nowadays can speak BM? All come out bahasa rempit crap also.

Joe mamak's daily routine
8am : bangun, buat kopi, go news site copy and paste news
10am : berak, go news site, copy and paste news. but this time bold some of the words
12noon: makan lunch alone
2pm: f5 f5 for news. copy and paste news. also, become moral police in k. give generic advice.
4pm: tidur, dream about latest news
6pm: reply news tereds he copied. cry when got zero replies.
8pm: eat dinner alone, sambil baca newspaper
10pm: besihkan keyboard and mouse.
12am: pray to newsgods for more news tomorrow.

Man, discussion quality in /k better than rwi. Kek