'Plug n Play"

Just when we thought we are going forward, we are actually going backwards.

If the BM subtitles in our movies are not bad enough, now we are aiming to expand science and technical terminologies. Here.

Let me give you an example which we were laughing our heads off in office. "Plug and Play devices" = "Alat cucuk dan main". "Install hardware" = "Masuk perkakasan keras". Accurate translation but hilarious at best. Unless we want to be a laughing stock of the world...


I remember during med school days, there we bilingual questions during anatomy exams although ALL the books were in English. "Internal jugular vein" = "Vena jugular dalaman". " Common peroneal nerve" = "Saraf peroneal sesama". Nevertheless to say I never read the BM translation any further. No idea what the heck it meant.

To add salt to injury, we have an MP who said "People in the Philippines are proficient in English, but many have landed up only as maids". Here. Wow, this is an intellectual at it's best. I'm concerned the way we are going, we won't be able to even export maids!!Maybe we should just ask the MP to translate all our science and technical books.

He further said "The Philippines, took pride in their peoples’ ability to speak English but had only succeeded in exporting many maids, whereas Japan has produced many international award-winning scientists who could not even utter a word of English". So he thinks that Malaysia will produce many award winning scientists like Japan if we all revert to Bahasa Malaysia. Wow he needs psychiatric treatment. This is called "delusion". If he doesn't understand the English term, the best translation I can think of is "menipu diri sendiri". Or maybe use a favourite translation method - get rid of the last two letters, delusion=delusi, illusion = ilusi. Is it still Bahasa Malaysia ? Or we just plagiarized the English version so that we can proudly say "Made in Malaysia". Deluded.

I've got absolutely no reservations assisting any persons who cannot understand English terms but to regress to a Taliban like state is unthinkable.

So do I have a dirty mind? Maybe I do....hahahahahaahaha...