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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Scream ‘tolong’, not ‘help’ – Bernard Manickam

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Make sure you speak in full Bahasa Malaysia when you are trying to seek for help, or else people might not understand you.
A viral news that originated from social media is making its rounds among netizens this week.
It involves a girl, Khairunhanisah Azlan Hanif, who was asking for help on social media after someone broke-in into her dad’s car and stole some important medical documents.
A rather common thing for a person to use the Internet to ask for help these days, so what is all the buzz about you might ask.
Well, according to certain “concerned” Malaysian citizens who happen to have an “Internet Law Degree” from God knows where.
Her mistake was that she used English to call for help instead of Bahasa Malaysia.
Rather than focusing their efforts towards helping her, certain parties are more concerned about her language.
The comment section of her post were filled comments condemning her for not using our national language and stating that many Malaysians cannot understand English properly.
So if I were to come into contact with trouble for example a snatch thief, I should scream “tolong” (help), instead of “help”?
Because if I screamed “help”, people from my surroundings will be busy telling me “sila guna Bahasa Malaysia” (please use Malay language) while the thief escapes with my belongings?
I have many Malay friends who can speak fluent English and some that are trying to improve themselves by speaking the language on a regular basis.
Surprisingly, instead of treating them as role models, these individuals who were trying to improve themselves were labelled “berlagak” (showing off) or “orang putih celup” (a slang used to describe an English-man wannabe) just because they didn’t use our national language often enough.
Is this is product of the so called “world class education” that our Education Ministry claim to have?
Are we so patriotic about our national language that we fail to see the bigger picture?
Don’t get me wrong, being patriotic and loving our mother tongue is a good thing, but sometimes being realistic is more important.
Like it or not, English is still the legitimate international language. We can either adept, or be left behind because we were just too proud to learn someone else’s language.
Instead of telling Khairunhanisah to change her language, why not use Internet platforms like Google Translate to help you understand what she was trying to convey.
By doing that, not only can you try to help her, but at the same time you would be able to improve your proficiency in English as well.
Isn’t it a win-win situation for everyone then?
At the end of the day, there is no point in showing you have so much love for your mother tongue but no love for your own people.
* Bernard Manickam reads The Malaysian Insider.

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