{"id":424,"date":"2007-06-25T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/mixing-languages\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T19:14:14","slug":"mixing-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Mixing languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunei-online.com\/bb\/mon\/jun25h1.htm\">article<\/a> I found today, the government of Malaysia\u00a0is worried about the way young Malays are mixing Malay with other languages. This is known as &#8220;rojak&#8221; language and the most common combination of languages is Malay and English. The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports has called on the authorities to &#8220;to implement and monitor the use of proper Malay language&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The article also talks of the Malay language being &#8220;eroded&#8221; and &#8220;polluted&#8221; and of the need to &#8220;save the dignity of the Malay language&#8221;. The Minister also said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We know that language, community and culture are always evolving with the time, [&#8230;] Conversing in &#8216;rojak&#8217; language is now regarded by society as modern and advanced without realising that it is tearing apart the very fabric of our values and culture, [&#8230;].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an example of the age old complaint about language often made by older generations about younger generations. The idea that a particular language is going downhill has been around possibly as long as language has existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today, the government of Malaysia\u00a0is worried about the way young Malays are mixing Malay with other languages. This is known as &#8220;rojak&#8221; language and the most common combination of languages is Malay and English. The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports has called on the authorities to &#8220;to implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-malay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}