LETTER Untahanable! - which was how my son described a recalcitrant schoolmate recently. you had a good giggle at his impromptu as good as droll misuse of a BM word to mean "unbearable".
While a single may giggle or ridicule at this twisting of a pleasing inhabitant language, you ought to lament even louder over a sum mangling of English in a BM scholarship as good as maths textbooks.
HRH of Kuala Lumpur (Letter, Politics, Malaysia Chronicle twenty-six November 2011) argued convincingly how inadequate BM has been as a denunciation for Science as good as Maths, which difference similar to bakteria pendenitrian as good as sindrom down could not find improved equivalents in BM.
Given a prevalent make use of of such difference in a textbooks these days, it is probably not required for a single to master BM in sequence to understand a sentence such as: "Logam zink di oksidakan" or " eksperimen .. kereaktifan oksida dan hydrogen".
So, you competence as good stick to English for Science as good as Maths.
Let relatives decide
While a translators are still finding it convenient to ruin English when forming BM terms, as good as a world is running ahead with a systematic research journals in English, you desire a Ministry of Education to allow us relatives to decide a denunciation you want for a kids to sense scholarship as good as maths.
Do not get me wrong. BM is a wonderful language, as good as you am proud to be means to make use of it every day with people from all walks of life. It gives us a identity, as good as it bonds us Malaysians from all races. you even ma! ke use o f it to promulgate with some workers from my own racial organisation when you cannot verbalise their dialect.
In fact, final week, you was rather embarrassed when a senior apportion used "keseriusan" in describing to a press how critical a government was in a transformation program. He could have make use of a more superb as good as pure BM word - "kesungguhan"
Here, you only propose which you open a doors to a young kids to master a second language, especially if it is a denunciation vital to stay competitive with a world. It is a known actuality which a kid from birth to 10 years old can easily sense up to 4 languages. So since constrain them?
Long-term over short-term
To let English take a more prominent purpose in a schools, whilst recognising BM as a official language, is a sign of a grown as good as secured Malaysian society. We need not be endangered if a farming kids will not transport as good if English is used in a sciences. Let's take a hard highway in a short tenure in sequence which you may fly in a long term.
As an inducement today, students can be rewarded not based upon a A's they score, though upon how most they urge over a stipulated period. Soon, a new generation of Malaysian family groups will evolve where English will be oral of march at home as good as in school, in further to a mom tongue.
We contingency be dauntless as good as honest to admit which a graduates are not removing employed since of their bad English communication skills. We contingency be dauntless to plunge into a rot now, as good as not be shortsightedly endangered about a A's which will bypass a farming young kids should they struggle over English in their textbooks.
Here is a final example of how a English has deteriorated. About thirty years ago, my Form 3 Ilmu Alam (Geography) text had a word "ikan goreng" (fried fish) wrongly though hilariously translated from "fish fries" (baby fish) in a strange English text.
The category had a good! giggle of course. The translator later went upon to turn a Education Ministry DG. Given a flip-flop denunciation policies in a preparation system over a years, you hold a scenario has gotten worse.
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