It is amazing how words are spelled and phrased in our multicultural country, this country that we love. Ayah received an email about a shoe shop in Muar. It is called "Kedai Kasut Kang Kang". For a malay it sounds rather odd, shoe shop spread your legs in a not so dainty way.
In a conversation with Dik Yan, she remembered her school teacher. And this was what she said "Cikgu adik jalan kang-kang".
She wanted to say that her teacher walked bow-legged but instead said her teacher walked with her legs spread in a not so dainty way. She should have said "Cikgu adik jalan keng-kang".
That's how different the meaning differs by just one alphabet; kEng and kAng. Only in Malaysia.
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4 comments:
gaaaahh... hahahaa.. when i think back... that was funny!! hahaha...
hahahah. kengkang. vs kangkang.
kangkang. Thats how rosie called phua chu kang.
KANGKANG!!!
i hijack put in facebook... hahaha tangkiu, tengkiu
thinker... walk like a model not kengkang or kangkang.. hahaha..
aj... bubu call ayah jamkang..
zendra... great, let's look for the shoe shop and let's walk like a model.
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