Tornyak
Belle July 28th, 2005Last night in the car to my mom’s place with Belle.
Belle: Mommy, koyak (pointing to the car’s sunshade) koyak = tear, torn.
Me: Ya, it is torn.
Belle: Koyak.
Me: Mama says “koyak”. Mommy says “torn”.
Belle: Tornyak (torn + koyak)
Me: LOL
Stumble it!
July 28th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
maybe she means torn+banyak ie banyak torn.
you never know it could be entered into the oxford dictionary one day !
July 28th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
fab.. your kids are bilingual at such a young age.. hahahahaha
i never knew malay existed till i went to school and came back with a very bad shock..
July 28th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
chief > hmmm…maybe one day.
ppuff > eh, i tot either one of ur parent is peranakan?
July 28th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
yeah but at home, when they spoke it, i thought it was english too hahahahahahhaah
July 28th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
lol, u so blur one
July 28th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
wah. creating new words har. haha. later i will create something with your new words.
July 28th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
hahaha…this is good…malaysian english hah?
July 28th, 2005 at 11:48 pm
lol ^-^ kids make it easy for themselves, really smart. Reducing 2 words to one!