Re: yl112's Meep, LOL...

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> That's not at all new... Bahasa Malaysia has officially adopted the method
> of "enriching" their vocabulary by basically transliterating English words
> (rather than extending the meaning of existing words, such as e.g.
> Mandarin Chinese has done, or coining new Malay-sounding words). You get
> words like "sistem", "ekonomi" (though that is from Greek), "universiti",
> "fizik" (physics), "konstruksi" (construction), "radikal" (radical), etc.
Indeed, it is the method of English itself (though not of Ander-Saxon).

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