Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Made In China, Alright

This is a packing material that comes with an optical mouse. The mouse itself looks pretty small and cute. It looks fine to me in terms of appearance, design, quality and price. I have no complaint using it.

However, I must add that the English used is so very bad. I'm sure you are scrambling for the meanings! But this is common by China standard.

Nevermind, everyone knows how to operate a PC mouse. But, such errors say a lot about the company or manufacturer, right?

What about if this happens in Malaysia by our English Standard? No way we could allow this sort of English to see the light. I bet anyone who starts believing this will not happen in Malaysia is ignorant to reality.

I say this because with over-emphasizing of national language i.e. Bahasa Malaysia, undecisiveness whether to continue teaching Science and Mathematics in English from primary education, it is no surprise that Malaysia English standard has dropped over the years.

To make matter worse, English is viewed as a threat to national language by some Malay educationists or so-called guardian of national language and NOT as a universal language that we must master to stay relevant to the world.

By our own admission too, most of our graduates nowadays do not speak and write English, let alone understand it. Whose making is this??? Yeah, start to blame everyone, the education system except the government.

We just hope that one day our English will not reach this lowest standard.

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