Friday, January 12, 2007

The 3 Bs

i passed by this banner in front of a very famous (and historical) school in Penang on my way to Queensbay mall this afternoon ;

kami warga sekolah XXX
mengucapkan syabas diatas kejayaan anda
terpilih memasuki ke sekolah ini

Has the grammar of malay language evolved so much since i left school? even if you can't tell specifically what's wrong with that sentence, u've got to have noticed how weird it sounds. Unless my mind plays some funny trick on me, i am pretty sure the welcome-to-our-skool greeting should have been written like this ;

kami warga sekolah (y agak famous dlm sejarah sekolah malaysia)
mengucapkan syabas ATAS kejayaan anda
terpilih memasuki sekolah ini

right? right? i found it very unacceptable and disturbing that this sort of grammar-related problems can happen in school. n what more embarassing, they hang it on the school's main gate. xde cikgu BM apa sekolah tu. x pun mmg loklak.
The school is located beside a main road. a highly congested one, at certain time. so people who stuck in the long-waiting traffic jam, will inevitably look around and would unfortunately read that pathetic banner.
i feel like tearing the banner into two you know. (yo yo je heh)

Bahasa Budaya Bangsa
cheewah ..:p :P

Baling was superb so far. done lotsa stuff there already ; jacuzzi-ying at the hot spring at nite, jungle tracking at a leech-rich rural village,meeting the local communities (who are so keen to have us around) and will be going to one of its famous waterfalls next week hihi. our research are still on hold though , coz they still couldn't manage to give us the data that we need work on. duh.



8 comments:

~Serenity~ said...

yeah kdg2 quite frustrated jgkla tgk how insensitive our ppl r towards crtain thing camni.skolah plk tu.kalau kedai makan takpela jugak.contoh signboard, kedai makan ali..ayah slalu komplen mane boleh kedai memakan ali..heheh..tp tu bukan skolah..
glad u updated dis blog..ade gak bnde nk bace..:)
heard about many great stuff in baling esp the cool watrfalls..kene pegi nih..;)

cherie said...

very true aja. nnt mintak cikgu jamal komplen kan kt pndidikn negeri p.pinang hehehe.
byk je mnde tp mls nk tulis.huhu
cm kne ade mood gk mnde ni;))
ok, nk blk baling in 2 hours n have more fun hehehe.xdela:P bizi kot miggu ni, sbb research tu. aduihh

Anonymous said...

Hahaha. Even budak skolah rendah pun tau pasal kesalahan tatabahasa tu. Ntah pape. Anyway, have a great time in Baling!! p/s: dah lama tak berborak dgn org2 se'dialek'. Huhuhu

Anonymous said...

'syabas di atas kejayaan' tu aku rase dh btul dh tu.. cume 'terpilih memasuki ke sekolah' tu mmg kompem aa salah. bunyi mcm dlm perjlnan ke sekolah pulak.. huhu

cherie said...

di atas hanya untuk tempat rasenyew. untuk mnde i.e. bkn tempat, contohnye, dlm konteks ini. i think it is either atas shj or diatas dekat instead of di atas (2 perkataan)

Anonymous said...

saya sokong 'syabas di atas' dah betul.

Anonymous said...

oh ya,sebelum saya terlupa, 'rasanya' boleh di gunakan untuk makanan (sedap,manis,masin,pahit...) atau perasaan (gelisah,gentar,gembira..) atau ...

rasenyew tak di sesuai digunakan di mana mana saja.

cherie said...

sebuk je budak xnak tulis name ni:P:P