Wednesday, January 18, 2012

the old language

three of us meet for dinner.

we have thirty years of catching up to do. quite apart from the news, there is an earthy home-flavored charm to speaking in the patois of my youth as long-forgotten vocabulary reappears. this is nothing like the intellect shattering singlish. malaysian patois is correctly english and correctly malay, effortlessly entangled into a strangely elegant new dialect. i puas.

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