It is a book in which the characters almost unknowingly committed incest if not for the fact they were “good children” that followed their parents stupidly and married their parents’ choice. For the life of me I can’t remember what made me google “ Konserto Terakhir“, the Malay literature novel I had to read when I was in Secondary 5 (I didn’t even finish the first chapter of Bukit Kepong which I was supposed to read in Secondary 4. There’s a part of me that feels that I can’t remember what sounds animals make anymore.Ĭontinued flipping… and going on wikipedia and surfed the net. Too lazy to check other animal sounds after that. English-speaking country cats go “meow” while Japanese cats go “nya” fascinating, isn’t it? Even animals can sound different in different countries). Still, among others that I found fascinating was the fact that there’s an entry on “ngaum” (Malaysian tigers make those kind of sounds) and “ngiau” (the sound that Malaysian cats make. So some words might have changed meaning or got deleted I don’t know. The current edition, if I’m not mistaken, is the fourth. ![]() Said dictionary is the Malay dictionary Kamus Dewan, third edition. Still, quite a number of my tweets from last night were dedicated to my finds in the dictionary. For the life of me, I’m not sure what made me start flipping the dictionary just now.
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