I am not sure sometimes if the person understood me after I had pronounced a word .. in my way! You see I am from a Malay school since young and the way we pronounce the vowels are different from English. My friends always made fun of me because I sounds strange in my own slang. For example, botanical garden, if I pronounce word by word in Malay language, it will sounds like Bottle Nickle garden. Also, the formation of the sentence in most of the Malaysians are less fanciful and straight to the point.
Oh well, I think I am ok with it if I am speaking on the street, but it has a major disadvantage when I use it at work. People will tend to think I don't understand English! Then they will speak very slowly and start waving their hands like a sign language. Duh!
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Duh !!!!!!!!!! :P
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