Dewan Bahasa must learn the language of soft power FMTNews
Long-expected proposals to legislate many of the wishes of the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka , the body responsible for promoting the use of the Malay language in Malaysia, are apparently ready to go to the Cabinet for approval, and may become law soon.
Such usage tends to be almost exclusively among those whose command of English is poor. They’ve taken many English words and Malayised them into this bastardised form that’s neither English nor Malay. If further proof is needed our language policy has failed, this clearly is it. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, as the guardian of the language, must of course be concerned, but it must also ask why we as a nation, themselves included, have failed so miserably here.
Then there are the non-elite non-Malays too, where making money is more important than any other consideration, and for whom knowing the barest of Malay is all they need. They’re happy to exist in their own Little China or Little India cocoons, narrowly connecting to the rest of Malaysia only through a shared currency.
Given that any costs or inefficiencies will be passed down, guess who’ll ultimately pick up the bill? The rakyat of course.
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