Malaysian minister says English at work 'weird'


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(AFP) - Malaysia's deputy education minister has said that speaking English in the workplace is "weird" and harmful to the nation's culture and identity, a report said Wednesday.

Mohd Puad Zarkashi said employees in the private sector used English 99 percent of the time and should switch to Bahasa Malaysia in order to show pride in the national language, the New Straits Times reported.

"This also occurs in government-linked companies where we have this weird culture of people speaking to each other in English instead of the national language," he said at the launch of a linguistics seminar.

"We are polluting our own culture and identity as a nation," he said.

"It would be difficult to strengthen the position of Bahasa Malaysia if this culture continued," he added, urging Malaysians to emulate the French, Japanese and Koreans, who stuck to their own language.

The New Straits Times said Mohd Puad also criticised young people for using a mix of English and Bahasa Malaysia in SMS text messages and on the Internet.

He called on the nation's leaders to use Bahasa Malaysia for all meetings and events and said that when he receives letters in English he returns them and asks for them to be written in the national language.

English is widely spoken in Malaysia, a multicultural nation where the population is dominated by Muslim Malays but also includes large ethnic Chinese and Indian populations.

Many Malaysians speak several languages including English, Bahasa Malaysia, and Chinese and Indian dialects.
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written by anon, November 24, 2009 22:12:12
How on earth can you emulate these countries? You are spewing garbage. These countries are too far ahead for Malaysia to catch up with them. To emulate them would be courting with disaster. Let us progress at our own pace. What is wrong using English for the betterment of the country?

When we have ‘emulated’ what France, Japan and Korea, then perhaps we could place more importance on BM.

For the moment, we need the English Language for obvious reasons unknown to ignorant people like you.

Read more...anonpartisan.b******t.com
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written by Commonsenses, November 24, 2009 21:02:29
How Stupid can an UMNO minister is ? Very Stupid ass*ole. That's why our education system can't improve and in shits cos they dumped those rubbished MPs such as muyudin and puad in these ministry. While our mongolian goes around talking about about transforming the country into high income society but here we have third world mentality ministers. Rhetoric and reality just don't jive stupids!
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written by Devoe, November 24, 2009 10:09:20
Weird?!Excuse me?Are you trying to pull my hair?Don't you realize that English is a vast medium for all walks of life now?Please.Stop your kid from speaking any word of English then.Period.
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written by alan cheong, November 23, 2009 14:44:57
mangkuk ayun punye menteri

woi kurang ajar, bahasa melayu engko tu bukannya bahasa melayu ... sebenarnya campuran hindi, sanskrit

masakan bahasa melayu mampu menangani keperluan dunia (hindi word) terkini?
bahasa dan tamaddun melayu jauh ketinggalan tamaddun lain sebab kemajuan anda masih kat tahap bayi - nak setaraf pada peringkat antarabangsa kon ... piiiirrrraaah mabuk.

TAK SEDAR DIRI.

yang lagi teruk, mulut kecek sa, tange buat lain ... munafeequn.
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written by durianbesar, November 23, 2009 13:34:39
those SOBs at the mInistry of education have perverted the original Bahasa Malaysia that I learnt in primary school. English is the international business language.

Why cant our dud Education ministers do what Singapore a small "dog" can show a big oversized bitch called UMNO who fixated the whole nation like Hitler... did... well it seems now that they are like NAZIS this UMNO bunch of bitches..... yes I call them bitches.. regardless of them being male of female.. he he LOL....

Now if they did a simple task of teaching your own mother tongue as a second language, teach English as a first language and Bahasa as a secondary language, you will not go wrong.....

Malaysia is producing more duds and these duds work as whores for the civil service.. ( I eat my words for those of you who are doing the right thing and this excludes any one who is in the civil service but not in the above category my pardon).

Yes.. walk into the immigration office, and you see a percentage of the duds, walk into the police force.... the bitch and dud of the highest order is the IGP himself and his sidekicks.... the AG another product of a bitch of all sorts and his sidekicks... also the NAJIS shit fcuk head... PM and his fcukwit wife Roachmah.!!!

All piss heads and dickheads.. including their chilldren who want to look cultured but living off the rakyat;s money to go overseas and study....... but do not want the ordinary folks to get an education....

we know who you are you bitches.. ...

So MAKE ENGLISH the national language.. and everyone from every indegeneous culture have their mother tongue as their first language and Bahasa Malaysia (pre 1970) as the version that is well respected. The present version shove it up your arses man.. you fcukwit Dewan Bahasa and Pimps.......

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written by Drift_king, November 23, 2009 10:51:06
OMG....Deputy Education Minister....!!!
I remember some years ago, one journalsit in Singapore commented that mamakutty was the Top Dog in region due to his long serving as PM and all other PMs in the region retired. This idiots picked a fight with Singapore for accusing them of calling mamakutty a Dog...hehehehehe...unbelievable!

Please do not make us laugh anymore....you are starting to make us feel sick.
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written by jaz, November 23, 2009 09:22:26
Are they trying to prove something. Even the Japanese and Korean minister struggles with some form of English. Who are they trying to kid.
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written by jaz, November 23, 2009 09:19:50
Communicate globally in BM? Maybe the Indonesians can help our minister translate to the kwai lou's.
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written by PresleyP, November 22, 2009 23:57:30
When such an idiotic statement comes from out Deputy Education Minister, you can say very well that the Education System in this country is sinking into shit, without doubt.

The Bahasa Malaysia today is probably 55% rojak, mostly transformed from English with a little change in spelling and so on such as "communikasi", biologi and fiziks etc. Do you find pride in this type of language ?

Don't forget that as soon as you get on the plane, you can basically throw the BM into the sea.

How many techinical books and medical books are written in BM ? Do a little research on how many technical books are written in French and Japanese before you open your stupid mouth. And Thus how do you expect the students to study technical books if they are only good at BM.

Of course if all Rakyat does not understand English, they will not be polluted by the Western people and internet news and thus can be continue to be fooled by the BN government through Malay newspaper such as Berita and Utusan, right ?

How do you expect to trade in international level without good command of English ? How do you uplift the standard of education since our local universities and slipping back in ranking and our students cannot go overseas due to handicap in English. Please use your thick skull to think further before you open your idiotic mouth.

Don't forget, one of the Selangor ex-MB tried to smuggle the corrupted AUD 1 million equivalent to Australia, years ago and was caught because he "no speek Inglish".

To all, the system in BN and UMNO specifically, it is not what you know, it is who you know and who you suck that get you up there. No point bitching about it, just vote for PR in the next GE.


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written by thirdeye, November 22, 2009 19:28:25
Can someone expose where this bastard's children are studying? If in Malaysia I have no problem with his statement. TAPI if overseas then this c**t must be exposed for what he is! A hypocrite
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written by Fairminded, November 22, 2009 12:03:18
Please tell that to the ministers wgi send their children overseas to study, starting with Hussein Onn, Dr. Mahahtir, etc right down to Najib. It is the ploy of these UMNO puteras to keep the rest of the population dumb and provincial and isolated from the rest of the world inorder to propagate their ruling class. Look at UMNO memebers in the caucaus and the leadership. Isnt it three quarters of them are educated overseas - even in Oxford University, the epitome of an English education? What a bunch of hypocrites. The other reason why other citizens still stick to English is that if a non Malay cannot speak english how can he or she survive in the NEP race dominated economy and education system of Malaysia? Unless there is no NEP or favouritsm, perhaps you can propagate a national language. But if you have a two tier citizenship you will have people who have to hedge on a multi language education for survival.
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written by onnetline, November 22, 2009 10:23:00
Narrow minded and retarding the country's growth or any global competitiveness.

It's truly embarrassing for a country to have a minister with little or no common sense.

Or maybe, she's being a fcukking racist bitch !!
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written by Rainbowseahorse, November 22, 2009 00:29:37
Mohd Puan Zarkashi boleh kah u take ini topic bersama UMNO kah?
Tell dia tak sesuai masi pakai UMNO tau, because nama UMNO untuk UNITED MALAY NATIONAL ORGANIZTION, dan nama tu bukan BM.

Faham u maksud I ker?smilies/grin.gifsmilies/grin.gifsmilies/grin.gif...kek-kek-kek
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written by PeacefulMalaysia, November 21, 2009 22:51:42
I have said this before and I am still saying this.
THE MALAYS ARE A BUNCH OF STUPID PEOPLE
WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE TO PROOF - the A*****e
They dont know their history and they dont want to know.
They THINK they are smart by being a BIG MOUTH
It ONLY shows their STUPIDITY.

Please the MALAYS proof me WRONG ( my ass)
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written by bambooman, November 21, 2009 17:40:04
"We are polluting our culture and identity as a nation," Deputy Education Minister Mohd Puad Zarkashi..

this statement refers to all the bee..end ministers and their cronies!!!
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written by onnetline, November 21, 2009 16:13:54
This ' lembu ' minister is no different from her boss or that piece of cow dung, MOOhyiddin Yassin.

................. both trying to communicate and compete globally in Bahasa Melayu ! smilies/cheesy.gif smilies/grin.gif smilies/cheesy.gif

Without a doubt .............. unadulterated morons ! ! !
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written by onnetline, November 21, 2009 16:05:10
(AFP) - Malaysia's deputy education minister has said that speaking English in the workplace is "weird" and harmful to the nation's culture and identity, a report said Wednesday.


This ' beech ' is detrimental to the development need and mastery of a great universal necessity,English to compete globally !

No common sense ................... another moronic minister ! ! !
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written by jaz, November 21, 2009 11:25:41
I mau cakap sama you. You tolong shut up, boleh tak?
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written by max_crazy, November 20, 2009 23:22:19
But one thing..i really not understand,if english is "weird" as you said.how come bahasa malaysia stiil want to borowed the word from english.may you pronounce to me the following word : system=sistem,condominium=kondominum,hospital=???????..etc,can you tell me where the word origin from...
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written by max_crazy, November 20, 2009 22:50:53
Most of the stupid & idiot is from Baruah Nasional goverment,how to expect the low educated minister to lead the country.
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written by Angela Ooi, November 20, 2009 19:10:00
It is weird the Education Minister (Dep) does not encourage people to learn and speak more languages, especially English being the top international lingo. I am sure this moron is mono-lingual and therefore finds it a problem to speak anything else. UMNO Govt has done great injustice to their own by hampering Malays from learning and speaking English. BUT OF COURSE THEY SEND THEIR OWN KIDS ABROAD WHERE ENGLISH IS THE MAIN LINGO, WHY??

My neighbour just related this story. .. A young Malay couple came to her school to enrol their daughter and told her he regrets he cannot speak or understand English anymore cos they were forced to use BM in their workplace at all times, he has since forgotten all the English he learnt before. He is making sure his daughter get a headstart now. The Malays now realise how disadvantaged they are without competency in English and are blaming the Govt...over to you Moron Deputy Ed Minister Mohd Puad!!
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written by orangbukit, November 20, 2009 12:36:13
Maybe we should merge the Education and Information Ministry. They are doing the same thing i.e. propogate disinformation aka propaganda.
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written by Fart Fart Wah, November 20, 2009 00:10:50
May I politely ask where does the Malaysian government aka UMNO get this type of MOOOlayus???
This bugger wants FDI and then he wants those guys to speak MOOlayu and then when they do not come he says he will say we do not need them..and then he will be in the PM"S gerombolan to go and look for FDI somewhere in Europe or America or England or Australia for FDI ( belajar sambil melawat) and then we will have BN governor saying ..we have FDI..
ayoh....WHY LAH YOU MAKE US LIKE YOU FOOLS TOO??????
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written by sitiabdullah, November 19, 2009 21:28:34
The Malaysian government has fools as their ministers. Everything is weird for them. Of course they prefer to keep people ignorant of the English language so that it is easier to control ignorant citizens.
For those who work in an international company it is natural to speak in English.
Puad shut your mouth as you display your foolishness and so does your name.
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written by tino_chan1988, November 19, 2009 19:15:38
Ohh boyyy, Malaysian politics and politicians never seems to fail to amuse me from time to time.

What a LOAD OF CRAP!....Malaysia truly BOLEH!!

WTF!
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written by JJFoo, November 19, 2009 18:06:17
This is the kind of nonsense we MALAYSIAN have to endure from a ministers who still live in the Stone Age, surviving in cave.

MOST Malaysian are all proud Multi-linguists. BODOH!

Now who is the wierd one?
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written by Garend, November 19, 2009 17:16:46
I Found this super super super funny.. I Would like to ASK HIM.. where he send his children to SCHOOL? Which University? Is it a local University? or some FANCY Expensive International School and Oversea UNIVERSITY.

HOW CAN U SAY IT"S WEIRD.. when majority of your kids are studying OVERSEA SPEAKING ENGLISH?
I think i know what they are trying to do here.. they are trying to keep the ppl illiterate..

SO WE DON"T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH>... then we won't be corrupted by the ENGLISH Majority written INTERNET.. then we have to rely on CRAPS like UTUSAN.. for the BN SPIN Story... WOW..

Good JOB THERE...
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written by asguard, November 19, 2009 14:49:48
Sorry to say this.... learn to speak only BM ....is like becoming like another indonesia... don't you see.... ten thousand of indons... don't even know how to speak english... and understand english... is that what you wanted to be like that stupid indonesian without any brains!
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written by Ben Nordin, November 19, 2009 14:15:20
I find it weird that UMNO stands for United Malay National Organisation. Thats English. Is this a product of UMNO Baru. Oh excuse me, would that be Baru, Bharu or Baharu? Has anyone decided on that yet?
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written by Shiva, November 19, 2009 13:25:34
i hope to see any articles written by jelubu or art harun soon, in bahasa malaysia but with words originating from the english on the surface level, forget about the hindi /tamil/chinese/jawa/indonesian /french or arab influance etc. the will certainly bring us to another level of excitement of whats being "weird". don't be surprise if we hear or see the word weird being malaysianized as : diwieredisakan etc or something like that
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written by EYFF, November 19, 2009 11:46:53
And is UMNO aka United Malay National Organization a weird word???

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written by EYFF, November 19, 2009 11:41:03
Mohd Puad Zarkashi do you know that English is still an official language in Sarawak, Malaysia??

For someone so ignorant, and a Deputy Minister to boot , perhaps you should go back to school??
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written by EYFF, November 19, 2009 11:30:31
"We are polluting our own culture and identity as a nation," he said.
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What culture and identity is he hawking about??

The National Language or Bahasa Melayu was a reinvention of the Malay and English languages after the Independence. The task was entrusted to Dewan Pustaka that set about coining new words and grammar for the mongrel language!

Malays, like Tunku and P Ramli of the 40s and 50s will find great difficult in understand the Malay language as it is spoken today? And for the matter, the older generation and us Kampong folks also!!

So where is the culture and heritage as claimed by this moron?? Perhaps it is time for this Weird individual to steal some more cultures and heritage from Indonesia??

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written by jaz, November 19, 2009 11:17:53
Oh yes, wearing a suit and tie in such hot country is deemed very suitable, isn't it.

WTF.

Sorry, you only take your master race seriously. While we are all just descent of immigrants. I'm not proud of my national language. My country does not treat me as it's equal citizen. My country call me a Chinaman. I love my country, but my country does not love me back.
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written by Oscar Winner, November 19, 2009 11:01:29
Another PM wannabee. The Edu minister traditionally gets to be PM. Once the lembu MOOhidin is PM, this PM-wannabee will be elevated. He's working very hard now, and that includes saying wierd things in BM about everything else being wierd if spoken in English. Power crazy, moronic, self-centred and something-wrong-upstairs, these people are a bane to country's development, courtesy of UMNO. Next he will say it's even more wierd that Mandarin and Tamil are spoken at workplaces. MCA, MIC and Gerakan....what say you, then???
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written by budakindia, November 19, 2009 09:45:18
Wearing shirts, slack pants, coats & ties aren't? smilies/grin.gif
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written by Apek, November 19, 2009 08:56:55
Dear Deputy Minister,

Your feeble forays into the English language has only managed to confirm that you are a racial bigot.

Language is a means of communication. It is a means of communicating ideas and concepts in abstract form so that your listeners can understand what you are saying. The basic facility needed in communication is actually the ability to listen.

Deaf people have difficulty speaking because they cannot hear and therefore emulate. By making the assumption that language is a cornerstone of loyalty to the state, you are immediately excluding all deaf and dumb people in Malaysia and saying that they are also "wierd" for not being able to say anything let alone in Bahasa Malaysia.

Language must be left for language and communication sake - nothing more. Do not politicise language. Let me remind you that this nation is being held together by a whole lot of non nonsense, no loophole, honest tax paying and many-language speaking Malaysians. Kindly attempt your level best not to insult them.
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written by adan, November 19, 2009 07:50:14
The use of English language at work is 'weird'' But the lanuage of corruptuion at work with the sound of $$$$ is most '' pleasing' 'to the 'weirdos'. This is in keeping with the nation's' culture and identity'
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written by allmenarebrothers, November 19, 2009 06:07:19
Yes. He is weird as his brains, (I really doubt he has any) is weird. He lives mentally in Prehistoric times alone & don't know what is going on in our real fast changing world. He is indeed an insult to the peoples of Malaysia by his mental frame of mind. He truly needs "education". Even with a half-cooked education as a deputy education minister he is a "weirdo". as far as his mental faculties are concerned. Well all the peoples in the world understand because he hails from the most brainless political party in the world. One look at his face will confirm he is a mentally challenged person, at best a deranged mad man.
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written by SamBall, November 19, 2009 03:50:19
puad oi poohad; ap lu cakap ini? ganjil dan aneh sangat cakap awak ini...

tak pi sekolah orang putih ka? aiyo, macam mana bolih jadi menteri? humnooo punya menteri semua nya bodoh sangat; qualiti kurang memuaskan...mashallah!

amat besar kemaluan saya....
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written by rotary power, November 19, 2009 03:06:49
Right On!....Umno /Bn politician are either a bunch of idiot or crook bastard supports by a bunch of stupid followers.
Malaysia will be doom ! soon unless ,we finished them off in the next election.
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written by truthbespoken, November 19, 2009 01:26:07
Huh, speaking English at work is weird? This Puad Zakarkasih is a weirdo-freako kind of Dep Education Minister. Even his name is bloody weird! He obviously didn't sound intelligent or fit enough to be a chief clerk let alone be minister! What a disgrace to government and country! Ptuui!
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written by mowadoha, November 19, 2009 00:58:13
Sorry for wrongly inserted a smaller graphic. This is the right size.

Dear Dr. Puad Zakarshi, how about this? Are you willing to act on this "weird" thing ......

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written by mowadoha, November 19, 2009 00:32:41
Dear Dr. Puad Zakarshi, how about this? Are you willing to act on this "weird" thing ......

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written by wood, November 19, 2009 00:30:36
Sorry miss out the word Minister above.
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written by wood, November 19, 2009 00:29:58
Malaysia ada ini macam punya Deputy Education is simply shocking !!!!

Malaysia is Finished !!!!!! Might as well ban the speaking of English in the private sector and all foreign buyers to Malaysia must employ Malaysian graduates speaking Malay to act as translators !!!! and all the bosses who can't speak Malay need to employ these graduates !!

So very "clever" to come out with this kind of statement. Why not make it into a ruling or law and all the Malay speaking graduates can also find employment !!!!

1Malaysia and Malaysia Bolehland !!!!smilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gifsmilies/shocked.gif
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written by Awang Kuku, November 18, 2009 23:50:03
Let's speak the UMNO language! Other languages are weird. Ha!Ha!Ha!smilies/tongue.gif
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written by Msian Idol3, November 18, 2009 23:45:47
No wonder we have poor education standards. If this Puad had no knowledge of english, he would not have been a deputy minister. Such an idiot as if we need to know his gung -ho wisdom & this have to come from a deputy education minister who can only think of shackling the language well being. English language in Msia needs lots of help, more than Bahasa.
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written by SiHangChai, November 18, 2009 23:39:48
I rather say fcuk u, air holes, bustard, and my middle finger than saying salam, tumpang tanya, tolongc etc. Bahasa is a rotten language.
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written by kinggerrard, November 18, 2009 23:38:57
Mr No.2, this is the biggest joke I've ever heard! Speaking English at work is being considered weird? I only know for those who not able to speak fluent English would consider themselves weird. Are you one of them? Or you dare not to admit that you're even worse than that and may need translator when people speaking English to you?

Don't compare with Japan, France, Korea! Do you know who they are? All the people around the world need to trade with them and they're not afraid not able to speak English. But for you, who's trading with you? The people around the world?? Don't bullshit yourself and us! The one who trading with you are only your cronies! That's the reason why you don't f***ing know how to speak a good English!

Please don't be our No.1 in the future! We won't feel proud for having a PM who needs a translator!! By the way, you boleh faham kah apa saya cakap?? Otherwise, call your translator now please!!
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written by rocky, November 18, 2009 23:33:22
lets take away another competitive advantage we have over other countries. I guess these idiots would like to travel the world with beautiful english interpreter. Stupid minister, I can speak Malay, English, Chinese, Tamil, so what is your freaking problem? I know what you want, you want malaysians to have less access to knowledge that is widely available in english, so that you guys can rule over us with no accountability and ransack the coffers of the nation. BTW when these companies shut down here cos english is not allowed or we can speak english, you going to hire us? go fly kite idiot.
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written by burn22, November 18, 2009 23:27:20
we truly have many clowns minister, especially in BN UMNO!
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written by Sutha, November 18, 2009 22:56:34
Puad is a minister's balls carrier (ie a deputy) from Umno. Umno is United Morons' National Organisation. What more can we expect from a pedigree moron? In fact the father must be a superstandard moron because the whole world spells the name as Fuad but this moron has it as Puad. And the father a Zakar-shit.

Anyway, this Balls Carrier was only trying to promote the Melayu language which has a vocabulary strength of less than 200 words (after removing those originating from English, Arab, Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and Chinese). But if we remove the Orang Asli's words, the Melayu language will have no more than 150 words.

And the Balls Carrier wants these 150 words be used in commerce, trade, science, it, communication, research, medicine, law, etc,

Is it that UMNO made him a moron by virtue of being a member, or that because he is a moron, he therefore rightly joined UMNO? BODOH PUNYA LEMBU!
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written by 40yom, November 18, 2009 21:33:35
The follows are said by our talk cock sing song deputy education minister:


Almost RM5 billion allocated to raise English proficiency

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Bernama) -- The government has allocated almost RM5 billion to strengthen the teaching and learning of English in schools, the Senate was told Thursday.

Deputy Education Minister, Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi said the ministry had also provided training for English teachers to help them raise students' proficiency in English.

"We will also include various modules like listening, speaking, writing and literature with focus on grammar. We will ensure that English proficiency means that one not only can speak the language, but can also use it correctly," he said in reply to Senator Samsiah Samsudin Thursday.

Mohd Puad said the government was also planning to recruit 13,933 English teachers for this purpose.

Earlier, when replying to the Senator Zaitun Mat's original question on the number of expert English teachers placed in rural schools, Mohd Puad said that as of today, there were 9,293 excellent teachers in various grades and expertise nationwide.

"Of the total, 954 are English teachers and 622 of them are placed in secondary schools and 332 are in primary schools, both in urban and rural areas," he added. (US$1=RM3.52) -- (BERNAMA)

Today In Asia : Last Update : 08:54:25 10 July 2009 (GMT+7:00)
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written by mansel, November 18, 2009 21:16:06
Why compare with France, Japan, Korea ? Why don't you think that we are better off than them because we know English and can do business globally ? if like this then dont bring in foreign investors who doesnt know how to speak Bahasa, see how fast Malaysia will go down the path of extreme poor countries... either know what you are talking about or shut the hell up! you are making good Malaysian look bad whenever we go overseas.... go stay in kampung and tanam padi la lu bongok! hamlau..
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written by thum, November 18, 2009 21:14:31
and we wonder why our education system is f***ed up....
with this kind of deputy education minister, no wonder.
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written by Birds Talking, November 18, 2009 20:58:55
wat kind of name is PUAD?
FUAD i know. PUAD? What?
Can't we get smarter ppl as DEPUTY EDUCATION MINISTER? Education as in Educate...Ptui!
Come on PM are you really short of smart people?
We really need SMART people to do SMART things..and not blab out stoopid things!
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written by Taufique, November 18, 2009 20:58:10
was this guy born retarded?
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written by born2reign, November 18, 2009 20:51:49
Soon the Philippinoes will earn higher GDP than Malaysians, because they can at least work as domestic maids / blue collar workers in high GDP countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, USA, Europe. Malaysians with our proud BM can only qualify to work in Indonesia and Philippines as "no Inggeris" restaurant workers/maids.

Najib, I'm sure this is part of your Malaysia-high-income-nation strategy. Speaks volumes about your leadership and intellect. What a Clown Minister.

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written by Sabahfan, November 18, 2009 20:49:26
Oh, satu lagi....

THE ONLY THING WEIRD in Malazutland is the UMNO leaders who flip flops in their policies or simply toooo stupid for their own glory
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written by hiro, November 18, 2009 20:49:19
Well said Deputy Education Minister. You're just the kind of minister Malaysians need to reaffirm their need to get rid of BN in the coming general elections. Where have you been hiding all these while not to understand the importance of English language? The pride in Malay language is not derived from being forced to speak it. If people are proud of their country and their culture, they will naturally use Malay language because it is "cool" to do so. If spoken Malay is on the decline, it is directly and proportionately related to how people view their country. In any event, as an EDUCATION minister, who are you to comment on culture? Even Rais hasn't said anything so regressive.
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written by Wisdom above, November 18, 2009 20:48:39
Very shocking to read this" when he receives letters in English he returns them and asks for them to be written in the national language." No wonder many students failed their ENGLISH paper since English is not compulsory to pass their examinations? SABM.
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written by Sabahfan, November 18, 2009 20:47:35
I forgot to add these answers too.

France, Japan and Korea used and have their own language because the country is NOT multiracial in the beginning UNLIKE MAlaysialand.

Malaysia was formed with a background of MULTI lingo, so its only fair that a NEUTRAL language will be used and the most efficient one, which is ENGLISH.

Using Bahasa Layu is just kissing the asssses of the TOYOLS and all the pirates from the INDONS
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written by magickriver, November 18, 2009 20:46:51
Hahahahahahahaha smilies/grin.gif Mr Pink Lips took us back to the climate of fear of the 1980s... but this jerk has done one better... he has taken the whole country back to the early 1970s with his linguistic jingoism and betempurunged utterances. So typically Kampong Umno! Hey, Puad... you know what your name sounds like? Some cartoon character dumping a huge pot of stale porridge from the 20th floor.
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written by Sabahfan, November 18, 2009 20:43:13
TO ALL UMNO CYBERTROOPERS in MT, Please read and pass this message to your idiotic moronic UMNO regime leaders...

1. What kinda name is PUAD ZARKASHI? arabic or pilipin pirates or indun pirate?

2. It is Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Melayu, the stupid language from indunisia??

3. Why all the education ministers before and now sent all their children abroad to study in English instead of in their own sekolah kebangsaan?

4. Why dont all your UMNO leaders including Firaun, Najis, Bodohwi, etc go and address the UNITED NAtion in your stupid Bahasa, just like the French?

5. Why cant your stupid Malay lecturers at the Medical school lectures your medicine at University Malaya and all other university in FULL Bahasa LAYU?

6. Why dont your malay computer science graduates produce all software in Bahasa Layu language? And I dont meant the webpages or the responses in the software, I mean you draft or create the software in LAYU language, all the programing steps etc..

MY POINT IS your Bahasa is a LAYU language, layu also means shrivelled or dead.

I go for English forever because......

1. English is already established as the leading international language.
2. Creating the artificial language BM is just for the glory of the LAYU people in UMNO, for your political convenience... initially forced in parliament to create a disadvantage to the Chinese and indians MPs who were initially weak in the bahasa. NOW it seems the opposition chinese can speak better bahasa than the stupid UMNO.

3. WHEN anwar first introduce Bahasa BAKU, most of the interschool speaking competition were won by Sabah students because the pronounciation in the Bahasa Baku was typical Sabah pronounciation. We win and win and win.
Having realised this, the UMNO bastards then cancelled Bahasa Baku, using the fall of Anwar as the excuse... HEY GUYS, do you still remember this?
the UMNO regime started demanding for Bahasa Melayu Johor Riau to be used instead.

Well, it s Bahasa MELAYU now, you Melayu people can KEEP your language I dont want it.


BUT English should be the official language of malaysia because the country was BORN multiracial, if you demand a local language, why was not KADAzan used, or dayak or iban because it is the local language, while the LAYU language is that of INDONS...

conclusion, its either English and go to hell with UMNO...
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written by Wahyu, November 18, 2009 20:36:16
Timb menteri PUAD Zarkashi ni dia dapat C untuk kertas Bahasa Inggeris SPMnya dulu.

Tulah sebabnya. Tolong jangan salahkan dia!
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written by Aria, November 18, 2009 20:30:43
Bloody hypocrite! Did your children study in Malaysia? Are they not speaking English?

Most of us have to depend on foreign companies in Malaysia for our livelihoods. Why do you think that these foreign companies came to Malaysia? because Malaysian labor is cheaper than Indonesia or Thailand? because Malaysia infrastructure is so much better then Indonesia and Thailand? because Malaysian politics is so much better than Indonesia or Thailand? Indonesia and Thailand may have had worse Infrastructure and Politics, but they have caught up and we are going backwards. The only thing that is going for Malaysia is English. You dumb idiots are going to destroy this country. Don't compare us with France and Japan you idiot, we are not in the same league.

We better vote BN out or we will all loose our jobs.
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written by ricardo, November 18, 2009 20:29:56
I wonder how speaking English can pollute our culture and identity.
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written by Eskay345, November 18, 2009 20:08:43
Of all the more than 150 Barisan MPs and Senators, how on earth can this nincompoop be selected to be the country's deputy minister of Education.
No wonder the standard of education in the country keeps falling.
You know what to do PM Najb, in your next cabinet reshuffle.
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written by sataysticks, November 18, 2009 20:08:00
Puad Zakarkasih,
Did you pass your UPSR exam? Whenever you open your never teeth brushed mouth, you talk lot a kokaduddledoo!

Go get yourself some education.

Such a narrow minded idiotic Minister of Education. Puuii
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written by Nixcloud, November 18, 2009 20:07:50
burn all the english books in the country!!!! detain all those who speaks english under the ISA (sorry, ISA is also in english).

anybody remember the time when PM Maha wanted to quit during an UMNO annual general meeting, right on stage in front of the microphone on national tv, all the kaki bodeks (i remember hisapputing being one of them) were all talking to each other in english.

oh, and why under the NEP, all malay students who scored Grade 1 in their SPM were send to US and UK to study - they are suppose to be the cream of the crop, they should remain and study in UKm dalam bahasa melayu.

send all of them to kamunting!
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written by elmo world, November 18, 2009 20:07:48
you barbarian minister politicians only knows $$$$$$$$$$$$$
why border sending your own kids abroad..........FFFFFFFFFFFFFFk

if am not wrong our Agung family too using English to communicate to each other. Use your NOODLES 1st before you open ur mouth & pollute the air.

Do you all politicians know you all are so embarassing to us the RAKYAT!!

what is that so proud of speaking bahasa but copied from English.
shame on you all that changed the English education system........MALU
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written by talk2stop, November 18, 2009 20:06:06
I like this dude Mohd Puad Zarkashi ( Dunno whether he or she, that's not important). Mandarin is for Chinese, Japanese is for Japs, Korean is for Koreans, English for Englishman, Bahasa Malaysia is for Malaysians.
Malaysia should implement all foreigners to understand read and write Bahasa Malaysian before investing in Malaysia. All Malaysian passport should changed to Bahasa Malaysia and any tourists coming to Malaysia must apply for a Bahasa Malaysia passport if not goodbye and go elsewhere. Malaysia must tell the rest of the world Malaysia do not accept any other language except Bahasa Malaysia.
English what a stupid language. How do you say that in Bahasa Malaysia?
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written by Badrol, November 18, 2009 20:05:34
Dear cheekhiaw,
I agree 100% with you that this nazri is an idiot but are you trying to tell that he, being an idiot, is not weird?
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written by elmo world, November 18, 2009 20:00:51
Fcuk you! minister
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written by miwaki, November 18, 2009 19:49:49
Kalau-lah P Ramli masih hidup maka P Ramli pun tak setuju dengan menteri yang yang tak tau berbahasa Ingeris itu.
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written by miwaki, November 18, 2009 19:47:16
Of course it's weird when most of you speak broken English ! I say he say I no say and "kachui" bo seh.
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written by roggon, November 18, 2009 19:44:49
I agree, speaking english in the work place is weired. That is of course when 99% of them cant even speak, understand or write a simple english. Comprende!!!!!
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written by Fuminari, November 18, 2009 19:42:54
this umno be end cabinet moron borned with this sort of mentality reflects exactly why malaysian educational level is a big flop!!why should our rakyat's hard earned tax payers' money ought to be wasted on this sort of stupid as.shole??
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written by tokbahaman, November 18, 2009 19:42:02
written by arazak, November 18, 2009 19:17:04

Let me rephrased it in Bahasa Melayu so that it can sink in your thick skull. . .!

“Yang merosakan budaya kita didalam syarikat Kerajaan bukan bahasa Inggeris, tetapi “Rasuah”,. . .Bodoh!
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Betul, saya setuju, rasuah merosakkan segala nya tetapi bahasa inngeris saudara nahunya tak betul "Let me rephrased" yang betul nya, "let me rephrase" sebab kita berchakap dalam "present tense".

Mohon maaf, sekadar memperbetukan nahu sahaja.
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written by kokwooiy, November 18, 2009 19:41:28
Dear deputy education minister :

i would like to suggest that all the government ministers including our PM also MUST SPEAK only in Bahasa Malaysia, especially during press conference, eventhough sometime the reporters may ask questions in English, just answer in BM, let them translate by their own.

Can you and all the cabinet ministers do THAT ????????????????????????

i believe it should start from yourself.
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written by cheekhiaw, November 18, 2009 19:39:04
It is not weird for an idiot to say that English is weird...

xxx
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written by Badrol, November 18, 2009 19:38:40
It is not the speaking in English that is weird, it is he that is weird.
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written by toni, November 18, 2009 19:36:28
Haha
another satanic UMNOPutra trying to kill the Malays from learning a 2nd language !
A terrible traitor to the Malays
He should be shot and cut body sent to hell
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written by Proarte, November 18, 2009 19:33:33
UMNO is terrified of Malays learning English because it is an international language and the lingua franca of research and education. The idea is to keep the Malays ignorant and insecure- it makes it easier to control them.

Also because the education system has been deliberately vandalised by UMNO, the Malays have poor English language skills, and in order for them to feel less insecure or 'malu' he wants to discourage its use.

Let us face it, the average Malay would love to be able to converse fluently in English as it is a hallmark of education , status and wealth. So , yet again it is the UMNO politicians who are out of step with the wishes of the Malays.

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written by eagle22, November 18, 2009 19:30:17
yea ...carry on .. one day all of us will speak like our Zam..Zam... xminister.

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Ef5Aob4cE
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written by malaysian1972, November 18, 2009 19:25:35
no wonder malaysia education level drop........... an idiot also can be a minister
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written by Watchdog, November 18, 2009 19:22:34
OK we dont call you 'stupid' then. Just 'bodoh' ,'lancau',dan lain lain.smilies/angry.gifsmilies/angry.gifsmilies/angry.gifsmilies/angry.gifsmilies/angry.gif
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written by educationist, November 18, 2009 19:19:37
Why is it weird?
Another UMNOputra opening his mouth to shove his own foot in!!
In case he's not aware of it yet, having lived his life under the tempurung, English is the language of commerce and trade in the international arena!!
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written by arazak, November 18, 2009 19:17:04
"This also occurs in government-linked companies where we have this weird culture of people speaking to each other in English instead of the national language," he said at the launch of a linguistics seminar.

"We are polluting our own culture and identity as a nation," he said.
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Hello Puad Zakarkasih!

The thing that pollutes our culture in Government-linked companies is not English, but “Corruption”. . .Stupid!

Let me rephrased it in Bahasa Melayu so that it can sink in your thick skull. . .!

“Yang merosakan budaya kita didalam syarikat Kerajaan bukan bahasa Inggeris, tetapi “Rasuah”,. . .Bodoh!

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