Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Argh


I am going to say this once more, and then never again. If I hear one more person say that Malay is not our national language, I am going to slap that person.

Our national language is Malay. English is an official language, but is not our national language. We started from small Malay fishing villages scattered around the island before the who-who-who came and brought along a surge of other races, or as we know it, our ancestors and founding fathers.

"There are a multitude of languages spoken in Singapore that reflect its multi-racial society. The Singapore government recognises four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. The national language is Malay, while English is mainly used as the business and working language."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Singapore

And also, for the other group of you who doesn't believe me, this is the "rappel" post. Repel repel, repel mosquitoes, ah?

Singaporean males are all poisoned by our army's misuse of the English language. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.

1 comment:

? said...

Hmm...you know wad?
In Amry, our commands are all in malay.
Our flag has the words "majulah singapura" in it.
Our national anthem is sung in malay.

So..err where got the Engerlish? Hahaha