but
that last KL trip, I think i offend a couple of sales person. :S
I swear I didn't do it on purpose.
I'm just realizing that I tend to speak English when I'm nervous.
Now, I'm not trying to justify myself after offending people, but hear me out.
Kalau di Brunei, sanang lah, i usually just trying to 'blend in', 'mix with the crowd', 'speak your lingo', etc when I speak to new people. Cakap Brunei is so sanang. coz my language, kan. nervous2 ku pun, I can still talk.
I'm speaking from my experience at the office when we have mix group of people from different departments and branches during Training.
Kalau di luar negeri, macam Miri lah, from experience, selalunya i just ask/answer in English. because in Miri mostly they speak Kucing or English. but of course, sometimes I forgot that I was in Miri, and speak my malay. LOL nasib Miri people are so accustomed to Brunei Malay.
this is why, time di KL I speak English.
NOT BECAUSE my English is amajing like Prince Mateen's but because I don't know how to speak in bahasa semenanjung (i think it means bahasa melayu KL?).
I used to, back when I was 13 and had Bahasa Melayu oral exam and I fooled the examiner into thinking that I'm half Malaysian. LOL I am not, Ma'am. pure Bruneian at heart. :P
point is, I can't. I mean, i blurt it out a few times on that trip but then I got embarrass and stopped.
2 sales person, I notice, looked annoyed, when I speak English with them. Kira macam aku tu inda pandai cakap melayu lah ah. Bukan inda pandai, sis, different accent/dialek.
Plus I don't want people to know that I'm Bruneian. for safety reason.
For so many years, people had the wrong idea yg we Bruneians are rich people and when we travel, we must have a lot of money on us. So, we got 'mugged' 'tipu' a lot.
That is why, for pre-cautionary measure, when taxi driver asked where we come from, we lie and tell them we are from KK (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia), because some people think we have similar dialek.
So, that is why I speak English.
1. to stop making myself looking like a fool trying to speak the semananjung dialek
2. to stop myself from being targeted tourist
I think this is why I have anxiety about travelling alone to KL. :S
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Serious question: How do you spell Dialek? LOL
I do hear too that Brunei is very lavish and rich :P
ReplyDeleteWow the west Malaysia also do the tipu? :|
I recognise Melayu, I can understand them but it seems like Melayu speaking ppl don't really understand Indonesian?
Now I am curious how do KK/ Bruneian ppl speak? :D How different it is? Different dialek only or different words?
I have annoyed a lot of ppl for my unreasonable requests. A good mantra: I won't meet them anymore, they will forget it. :P
Well.. Unless you will meet the ppl you annoy regularly, then, hope next time they wont be annoyed? Hehe.
Now I am so interested in being around Malays/ Bruneians. Want to hear the distinct, understandable but different languages :P
I have been understanding all of your Bruneian words. Btw
Well, for me, I understand a bit of Indonesians, thanks to the sinatron I watched when I was younger ;)
ReplyDeletefor KK/Bruneian, there are words that are different, and even dialect is a bit different actually. hmmm I know, majorly, people thought we're similar is becoz of our excessive use of the word 'bah'. LOL
that mantra is good! I only started thinking and using it *thumbs up*
Well, if we Malays (Indonesian Malay, Malaysian, and Bruneian) meet and speak our standard Malay, we could all understand each other. ;)
Good to know you actually understand! now I can (seriously) continue to write in Malay xD