Deadline were missed. With this accumulated, I can’t help myself but to let my mind wander. Lingering by itself since I got myself into a troubled water with one of the project.
Hence my mind reached to a state thinking about Alex, a friend of mine who had just recently complained about never inviting him for a lunch buffet in Daidomon. This leads me to think about a word. Indirectly reminded me of a comic last time. A comic that says about the history or the origin of words. Not sure whether if it is the Ujang or Gila-gila.
The one I remembered the most was the story about the origin of an English word called “air”. Here it was stated the Englishmen once reached the shore of our country. As they were learning with the local, some kid by the name of Abu who had a can and then were trying out collecting water. One he got the water in the can, he was quite happy and running around the town shouting “air, air, air” unknowing that the can had a hole. It caused the water to leak through.
As Abu was running around, the Englishmen saw him and curiously asked him what was the word “air” about. Abu happily showed him the can which was an empty tin.
The Englishmen look into the can and thought Abu was referring to the thing inside can – the air.
According to the comic, that was the origin how the Englishmen learned about the Air and not water.
How it going to relate with Alex? Here’s my version of the origin of language. The Malay language was adopted from many other languages. One of them is from the Chinese.
It begins back in the era of Cheng Ho when the China sent their teacher to teach Parameswara some language. The teacher brought a pet – the dog. In this story, Parameswara never saw a dog before so he was pretty afraid from the dog that the teacher bring.
Being afraid, he pointed to the teacher and making some noise. Alarmed with that, the teacher scolded Parameswara “An Jing” which means 安静 or be quiet in another way.
Thus, when every time Parasmeswara was pointing his finger to the dog and making noise, the teacher will yell the same “安静” over again.
By then, Parameswara thought the dog was called Anjing and from there on, the dog is called anjing. =D
yes, I know its pretty much lame.
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