How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Learning English pronunciation by example...

A friend of mine, who is a teacher, once told me that in one of her Geography lessons, she had difficulties getting some of her students to pronounce the name of a city, OKLAHOMA !

A Malay student, read it as O.K. lah Omar
A Chinese student, read it as Okra Oma !
An Indian student read it as Wok Kla Wo Ma !
Don't laugh, but do you know how to pronounce correctly, the word....

"Oklahoma" ?

The Proper Way is:

OKLA... (with a pause) ... HOMA

(There's a gap between the 'a' and the 'h'.)

Don't agree, let me prove it...

Perhaps the native English teachers coming to Malaysia should use this form to encourage the students to remember what they have been taught. Some Iranians students I knew in the '70s said they learn English by reading Playboy magazines!

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