The "Lah" slang is larger than any other English slang

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i had attended a student leadership forum 2 months ago, the host in my dining table( a local) realizes this problem with international student only interact with their own kind and ask our opinion on it...
the university actually realize this problem and r trying to solve it...

That's why i always recommend staying on campus/residential halls for at least a year before moving out, you get to meet and talk to the ang mohs. It widens the communication skills.

even while I'm in Senior High, we had this problem too, all the Asians in one table, and locals on the other, they don't seem to mix up ...

It's like oil and water, they just dont mix together. I dunno why but this happen all the time, not only in aus but also in msia. Well, human nature i guess. Nway i dunno y everyone thought i am from singapore, does msia slang similar to sg slang?

I only noticed the local born Asians mixed up with them well.

well, maybe we used too much singlish too?

Senior High? Dude where'd u get your education? o.O?

Well, even in Monash Malaysia, i see that a problem too. Indons will mix with Indons, Mauritians will mix with Mauritians. Only the minority groups, like the Vietnamese and Koreans, where there are only 1 or 2 in my batch, will mix with us locals. But they're so alike locals, they totally blend in

Well, that's the saddest part. I was hoping Australia would be better, but I suppose I shouldn't set my hopes too high. Hope there will be more English speaking dudes in Aussie. I'm hating the way Monash Malaysia is turning into a mandarin speaking community, and segregation of races and ethnicities. My seniors said it all started with my batch :<

here in Australia.

malaysian and singapore slang sounds almost the same. the only difference i can tell is that singaporeans use 'leh' a lot and malaysians use 'lah'

yeah people in aussie dont mix. its really is like oil and water. the lebo's will hang out with lebo's and so on. really is dissapointing. i guess we are all hypocrites. cause everyone feels more comfortable around their own races i guess. you cant really blame them. esp. for asians because subconciously we are more reserved. so even more dont like to mingle outside our own.

i got this white friend who thinks he is asian. so does that count as a foreign friend? he dates an asian girl cause he was brought up in the same culture (thats what he says). hahahah. i was laughing so much. he was brought up in a white boondock neighborhood hahaha. so farny lah some people.

This post has been edited by panda-man: Nov 2 2008, 05:34 PM

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Well sad to say, but if you are only gonna speak English and nothing else (I'm only assuming this based on how you dislike MM turning into a mandarin speaking community), you will only be able to mix within the Malaysian group and possibly the local asian groups here, depending on how well you speak, i.e without all the LAHs around. For hongkie and the other Chinese groups, it would be a challenge especially if you don't speak their canto/mandarin. I had my fair share of these experience, so I know unless you speak their language, you will hardly blend in with them.

Haha really, didn't notice that though. To me, when they speak English they all sound really similar, but once they start speaking in mandarin, the difference is quite obvious lol.

malaysians and singaporeans speak the worst english in the world.

Well, maybe we have to take the initiative to talk to them... I don't think all of them mind mixing with us.. As i'm going to Queensland University very soon, i too feel worried about mixing with people there.. I certainly hope can mix well with them because it would be meaningless to study there if i'm still always together with the M'sians.

i think the correct term is manglish.

that is just being ignorant. only in msia and sg that we speak like that, sometimes i feel ashamed at myself when i can't come out with a correct sentence without the slangs.

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Added on November 2, 2008, 7:21 pmit'll be alright. the aussies are very friendly people, they are more than willing to speak to you.

This post has been edited by Makakeke: Nov 2 2008, 07:21 PM

theres nothing wrong with speaking with slangs. if you dont have malaysian slang. you'll end up with aussie slang. IMHO i think aussie slang is far tooo.... strange. stuff like brollies (umbrella), sangar (sandwich), bangers and mash and so on. the one i never could get around is when they say ... how you going? .... i always reply. going where? or something like that. hahaha.

Actually I quite agree with panda-man. There is NOTHING wrong if you speak slang of your country. Totally nothing wrong at all.

Everybody speaks a bit of their own slang. So there is no problem to it.

Do you guys know that "lah" is recognized in dictionaries as one of a slang? In fact it has been in the dictionary for quite some time already.

well well...in my case i cat wait till the day i can pwn everyone with manglish....like right now im forced to speak english like the tv english so to say....coz the locals cant understand me and i even got told of by my tutor to speak local english....my tutor goes...."oh i know its abit hard but u gotta learn to speak like the locals, its okay for me coz ive been to SEA so many times im accustomed to it but most ppl just cant understand u!"....then got shit marks from that tutor...

fcuk that man....i felt like im betrying my roots / trying to be sumone im not....when im with my msian / sg frens....i will automatically switch to manglish....much more casual...but there are awkward times though....like when im with a local and a msian/sgporean....if i speak manglish...ang moh cant understand...if i speak tv-english....then the msian/sgpore fren wuill think ui trying to hard like that.....like some ppl i know whu studied in Aus.....when go back to msia speak got slang slang...damn sien....spineless pricks!!! when lar they gonna get a self identity for once?

Of course there is nothing wrong with slangs, as long as you're in your own country!

have you even try giving a presentation in aus with your malaysian slangs? or have you try speaking in slangs with the aussies? if you've even tried avoiding saying them, then you have agreed that there is in fact SOMETHING wrong with the slangs.

slangs only work in your own country, between your own people. you think some aussie slangs are funny and you try not to follow them, it's exactly the same with ours.

by reducing the lahs and lohs we use everyday, it's not only better for the people you speak to in aus, but also for personal improvement.