A discussion about an ongoing major problem affecting our country in the Dewan Rakyat unintentionally turned rather humorous yesterday (3 June) thanks to the
A discussion about an ongoing major problem affecting our country in the Dewan Rakyat unintentionally turned rather humorous yesterday thanks to the utterly wrong choice of words by a Member of Parliament .
The DAP MP was then corrected by Dr Zaliha at the start of her speech, saying that the correct Bahasa Melayu term for ‘brain drain’ is ‘hijrah cendekiawan‘ rather than ‘longkang otak‘.“I would like to correct a term used by Yang Berhormat Sibu. In this question, the term ‘brain drain’ is translated as ‘longkang otak‘. That is a literal translation.”
Naturally, such a faux pas made its way to social media where many Malaysians ridiculed the Sibu MP’s blunder. 1 of those who did so was X user @IamRahimyRahim who posted a screenshot of the question and asserted, In the replies, one commenter sarcastically said that this new ‘term’ coined by Oscar Ling was really cute.
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