Road Signs
Monday, December 25, 2017
Going to Malaysia is always such fun. Formal Malaysian Malay is close enough to formal Indonesian Malay to be able to communicate easily, and different enough to make it constantly interesting. Take road signs for instance. They are always understandable, but the words used are often different. It makes you aware of how much our understanding has to do with making associations, and just how much of the language we use is metaphor, without our bei
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