I recognize some of the words, like "ten cent store", but most of rest look like they were made up by some word nerd. I really like the little voices, all clamoring for attention.
It's evidently put up by Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford Fajar. OK, Oxford Dictionaries I recognize, but who is this Oxford Fajar? Click on the link and it takes you to a page which asks you to chose one of two countries based on their flag, neither of which I recognize. The flags take you to two similar but different web pages, both of which provide this bit of information:
We publish quality books that provide knowledge and information that is critical to the building of Malaysia as a nation.Now how's that for an essential purpose?
Via Scott Robert Ladd on Facebook.
The flags are Malaysia (left) and its southern neighbour Singapore (right).
ReplyDeleteFajar is the Malay word for Dawn.
Don't they teach you anything foreign in US schools, Charles ;-) ?
Yeah, I had to memorize the flags of all 999 countries back in the 2nd grade, but most of those countries have changed their names and flags so anything I remember is probably wrong.
ReplyDelete192 countries, AFAIK.
ReplyDeleteYou probably just had to remember all the US states, their capital cities (and their views on homosexuality just to be on the safe side ;-) . . .
And to explain their punny use of Fajar:
Dawn is a time of increasing brightness, which is what their educational books are purported to provide ;-)
See, that's the problem right there. When I was a kid there were a zillion more countries than there are now, so what was the point of learning all about them? Forgetting about them freed up memory space for more important things, like how to make snarky comments. And there weren't any homosexuals when I was a kid.
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