Flying Made

Speaking about general consensus, we all agree that love is universal. Why? Because everybody understands love and the feeling of it is almost the same for everyone. Love is easy to understand. A Malaysian can fly to Tanzania and fall in love with a Tanzanian. How the Malaysian expresses it? Just by giving "that look".

Deriving from that, I have a strong argument that English shouldn't be an international language. The reason is because English is hard to learn. There is grammar, tenses, gender-dependent subjects, gerund, bla bla bla.... For people who are not familiar with this, it would take them a donkey time to learn to express themselves to people in other countries. Must a universal language be that difficult, the answer is NO!

Here is one encounter that I have today that looks silly. It is the result of poor mastery of English. There was this lady in my office building whom I always exchange a smile with every time I bumped into her (a pretty nice lady, eh). I didn't know her name and I didn't know what her job was. So my knowledge about that lady was only limited to that smile on her face. So, I bumped into her again and trying to be nice I said:

Me: "How are you doing?"
Lady: "Finance, and you?"

I was tempted to say, "I am doing good, business is picking up". However, that would make the situation awkward, so I replied:

Me: "Sales"

Okay... that's not correct, but that makes the atmosphere a little bit convenient =). Not the right answer and I wouldn't receive 100 mark on the exam. However, it was right one given the circumstances.

If I am to put a finger on whom to blame, I would straight away point to English - the most overrated language that climbed the universal ladder because England's era of colonialism.