Originally posted by MushyMaro:
Hiya...
I am wondering are Malaysia leaders slow readers? "Defending the Lion City" was published a few years ago if i am not wrong... How in the world that only now they want to make it a BIG topic...

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Have you forgotten that they have been educated in "Bahasa Melayu"...... oops, too small for them...... so they must call it by the name: "Bahasa Malaysia"
They have problems reading, understanding and speaking English; and probably need an Oxford Dictionary to define every single word written in the book, and then translate it into Bahasa again, each word mentioned in the Oxford to find the closest meaning in Bahasa.
What we take as "sovereignty" as "supreme independence", may allow them preference in choosing to understand the term as "royal privilege" in their own feudal setting.
The book "Defending the Lion City" was probably sitting on someone's desk, awaiting interpretation that takes more then two years for it to be RE-written in Bahasa.
Then again, with the reinterpretation of the various words in Bahasa, the original weight of the choice of words by the original author will no longer be the same.
Little wonder that this book now should agitate the Malaysian Malay community more then the other Malaysian communities.