Salt is proud to share with you the recent feature article from The Star on Rita Sim’s book Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian. In the article, they outline the main points of the book and explore the content with some commentary from Rita Sim. We are so happy it is getting such wide coverage and recognition! [...]
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Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian
SALT is happy to announce the launch of Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian – a book we had the pleasure of working on with Rita Sim from Sin Chew Daily newspaper. The book explores how the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia is not properly understood – as outsiders we assume that all Chinese are the same, but [...]
When I first met the word “floccinaucinihilipilification”
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an occasional series on words we found and took an immediate shine to…. When: 1989, in a classroom in the Perry Quad, Geelong Grammar School I was being taught Second-Form English by Michael Collins Persse, who was, quite literally, to set the path of my career at University [...]
Pe ko tls td? Aq x phm ler…
Bahasa Malaysia has often been accused of being inefficient. One need only flip through any bilingual publication to see that the BM text is typically longer than the English. In written format at least, plurality is a major culprit; some of you may remember the good old days when burung-burung was just burung2 . To [...]
