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Malacca Fesyen et al

Leave a comment Posted by on November 17, 2014
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Say fesyen

Fesyen for fashion, tekstil for textile, farmasi for pharmacy, restoran for restaurant and rezab for reserved (my favorite), are some examples of Malay words loaned from English.

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Say restoran

The spelling resulted from how they are actually pronounced in Malay, I suppose. Truth is, the simplicity of how you say it, how you write it spelling (with minimum number of alphabet letters) made those loan words very straightforward to use by Malay writers than their English versions by English writers.

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Say farmasi

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It’s rezab parking, get it?

 

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See the fesyen guy inside?

 

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Lesehan

Leave a comment Posted by on January 9, 2014

A kind of street restaurant (rather a sidewalk one) minus the chairs. But who needs chairs when one can comfortably sit and eat on the floor. Utensils are optional too but each one gets a bowl of water for handwashing.
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The floor mat I noticed were those weaved plastic ones.
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One can always have a typical restaurant dinner anytime in my home country and for occasions such as New Year’s Eve it’s kind of natural thinking for most (who can afford) to celebrate it in fancier restaurants (if eating outside home), in fine dining style. But my last dinner for 2013 was a very satisfying meal of bebek goreng and nasi goreng with lots of sambal, hand as utensils, in lesehan-style.

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