Comments on: Local foreigner syndrome

By: piggy

piggy — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:13:22 +0000

I’ve only been in Perth for 1.5 years but my Mum said I talked with a slight Australian accent! Imagine my horror when she told me that because I was turning into those annoying people that I myself dislike. Blech! Thing is, I did not even realised that I was speaking the way I did until she pointed it out. Argh, it’s all in the subconscious mind!

By: cc

cc — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:11:34 +0000

chloe
Hello! Thanks for dropping by.

Dr ve Thru
Exactly, but it’s their choice.

Lucifer
I am proud of my lah. Haha.
Thanks for dropping by.

prawn
Oh, the infectious ‘lah’. When I was studying, the gui lou at my hostel also made fun of it.

Nonnie
I am a Proud Malaysia with lots of lah.

De Pianist
My BM has suffered due to the lack of usage, but that doesn’t make me any less of a Malaysian. Haha.

By: De Pianist

De Pianist — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:25:01 +0000

mine even worse,i only come to melb for only nearly half a year and yet my friends thought i already forgot my BM already..=.=..and i have to keep on convincing them that i didn’t at all.haiz

By: Nonnie King

Nonnie King — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:16:49 +0000

It’s nice to see how much you love your country, not like those who pretend to be ABC only after few months of staying in foreign land.

By: prawn

prawn — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:53:27 +0000

Hehe.. i understand how u feel. Went i went back to Malaysia for my holz, my frenz kept teasing me if i had adopted the ‘kiwi slang’. But when I tried proving to them that i did not, they said i had but not my english, MY BAHASA MELAYU was the 1 infected instead… =(

On another note, manage to spread the “LAH” thing around most of my hostel mates.. Its so funny seeing them trying to add “LAH” in every word & sentence =P

By: Lucifer

Lucifer — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:00:15 +0000

LOL your post just reminded me of on Malaysian chinese fellow who took his final uni year in australia, he works for this company in KL named PURE GROUP ASIA PASIFIC … and he talks so weird ) he’s got a really fake accent LOL, I’m Japanese and i been in working here in KL 2 years now and sound more malaysian than he does with all the LAH’s i picked up at the end of my sentences ) but when he speaks mandrin LOL you don’t get to hear any slang )…. his boss is australian and i get to understand his boss well perfectly…

but when talking to this kelvin kua LOL it’s really so difficult to understand that fellow…and his accent becomes so irritating you know what i mean?

i’ll admit the “LAH” thing is so difficult to rid of, once you’ve gotten used to ending sentences with lah

By: Dr ve Thru

Dr ve Thru — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:01:29 +0000

I know what you are saying.
I lived in Melbourne for 10 years before one of my ex-colleagues from KL flew to Melb with her son and within 3 weeks of lodging with me while she was trying to find a place to stay, she started to say, ‘to-die’ instead of today, ‘good-die’ and not hello or how are you, ‘mite’ instead of ‘mate’ or what is wrong with friend?

What she did not realise is talking like that shows a different background because the more affluent Aussies don’t talk like that. It made my hair stand on ends but on the other hand, she was not a close friend for me to say anything. So, I had to put up with ‘good-die’, alrighty mite for 4 weeks or so.

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:18:06 +0000

hear hear. happy merdeka day in advance. =D

wayyy advanced.