A Bahasa Malaysia for all


IT MAY seem strange to many that I wrote in English this article promoting Bahasa Malaysia. But I don’t find it strange. I did so because I do not want to be accused of being an Umno patriot, a cendekiawan Melayu (Malay intellectual) or even someone biased towards Bahasa Melayu because it’s his mother tongue.

I want people to understand that I can switch between Bahasa Malaysia and English anytime. If I were to give a ceramah in Bahasa Malaysia, I would do so 100%. If I were to lecture in English, again I would do so 100%. None of this bahasa rojak (mixing of languages) business.

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