Wednesday 5 August 2015

Lingua Franca

Bahasa melayu as lingua franca? Few months back i was shock when mr muhyiddin embark on this move.
Since we were thought of history subject we were exposed to this lingua-franca terminology.
Why should we emphasis on lingua franca thing? When portugese or dutch wanted to invade malacca or when they invaded malacca do they ask people of malacca to speak their language?
When we are in foreign land its a preveilage for us to learn their language.
Without realising bahasa melayu already spoken by more than 1/3 of the world. Off cource not all but many of the nation has a people that can speak malay
How its happened? With extra efford of dewan bahasa? Effort of any ministry? It happened when people come here to work. Vietnamese, nepalese, bangaldeshe all speak malay.
So what else should we do? No need ma?
We must realise that our language is not as old as the mandarin or arabic. We borrow or use a lot from other languages.
Many technical term that we couldnt direct translate.
This is really my view as for me we wasted a lot of time n resources for doing something that really fruitful.

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