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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.
