I come from a little place called Teluk Intan in Malaysia. Now what I can't stand is lately, a lot of ppl has been trying to rename the place to Diamond Bay... duh! what is that all about? the name of the place is Teluk Intan. full stop. I don't really know what are they thinking, but I think they felt it might be "cooler" to say "I come from a place called Diamond Bay" but i think that is just so fake and stupid.
I mean I dun see ppl trying to rename Kuala Lumpur to "Muddy Confluence" ( er.. this translation is according to wikipedia) or Taiping into "Peacetown" or what will happen if all those places in China starts having their names translated to english? I would really like to beat up the first guy who trys to rename Hong Kong into "Fragrant Port"
Please, Teluk Intan is Teluk Intan. It is in Malaysia, where Malay is the national language. be proud of it. no point trying to rename it into another language. it loses it's uniqueness... By the way.. there are no diamond mines in Teluk Intan... just in case you are wondering.
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some many years back, it is refer as Teluk Anson, named after Sir Archibald Anson. But in the effort to drive the effects of colonization, the names that associated with them must be changed. Teluk Intan is named after a lady named Mak Intan, not sure what she did. I bet she probably bath naked in the river. hahaha. some of our street names were changed too. Prince Rd becomes Jln Putra, etc..go figure.
to rub it in....
ZHUAN SHI WAN --> JUN SEK WAN... sounds good. heh
change is inevitable, except from a vending machine -- robert gallagher
haha... thankfully they called niu cher sui Chinatown instead of Cow Car Water!!!!
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