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Example, saying "Okay -lah" while squinting one eye and hesitating the -lah, would be to give a mediocre opinion about something (as in "The food was okay-lah"). Meanwhile, to say a short increasing pitched -lah as in "Okay -lah. We'll all go to Ipoh later", would be to agree about something.
Don't worry, he can do it one lah – Don't worry, he can get it done. It's okay lah – It's all right. Lah can also be used to emphasize items in a spoken list, appearing after each item in the list but is not commonly used in this context. They got sell Nasi Lemak lah, Roti Canai lah, Chapatti lah; Everything got lah!
Malaysian English (MyE), formally known as Malaysian Standard English (MySE) (similar and related to British English), is a form of English used and spoken in Malaysia. While Malaysian English can encompass a range of English spoken in Malaysia, some consider it to be distinct from the colloquial form commonly called Manglish .
The official language of Malaysia is the "Malay language" [5] (Bahasa Melayu) which is sometimes interchangeable with "Malaysian language" (Bahasa Malaysia). [6] The standard language is promoted as a unifying symbol for the nation across all ethnicities, linked to the concept of Bangsa Malaysia (lit. 'Malaysian Nation').
Indonesian and (Standard Malaysian) Malay have similar derivation and compounds rule. However, there is difference on quasi-past participle or participle-like adjective when attached to a noun or verb. (Standard Malaysian) Malay uses prefix ber-to denote such, while Indonesian uses prefix ter-to do so. It is important to note that prefix ber ...
"Da Da Da" by German group Trio uses the phrase "da da da" throughout the song. The chorus to the Simon and Garfunkel hit " The Boxer " contains the repeated phrase "lie-la-lie". One of the most famous examples comes from The Beatles ' song " Hey Jude ", which ends with a long run of "Na na na na na na na".
help (lah) – please, do lend me a hand by desisting from whatever it is you are doing; help me out here. E.g. "Help lah, stop hitting on my sister." (Please, stop flirting with my sister.) (Please, stop flirting with my sister.)
Proto-Malayic is the language believed to have existed in prehistoric times, spoken by the early Austronesian settlers in the region. Its ancestor, the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language that derived from Proto-Austronesian, began to break up by at least 2000 BCE as a result possibly by the southward expansion of Austronesian peoples into the Philippines, Borneo, Maluku and Sulawesi from the ...