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Do you speak-er any Engrish ?

Grammatically wrong English words used by Malaysians :

1) Thats mean
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Well if you read it carefully it would normally mean - "Hey that's mean . You should apologize " . However , some use it as - "So thats mean we all meet up at the office tonite la okay?" . Maybe they wanted to say 'that means' but often fail to distinguish this .

2) Others people
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People is plural , but not everything must have an 's' to it. eg. " Wei, don't do like that, what if others people know?"

3) Should be can
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This one is almost right , but they had to put 'can' at the end. eg. " You want it like that? should be can la."

4) Peoples
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Yep. e.g " Wahh, so many peoples here. "

5) Somestimes
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Thanx to my fren who told me this. eg. "Somestimes these things can happen."

6) 'Z' as Jet
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Eg. " How to spell L-A-Z-Y ? L-A-Jet-Y " or "My handphone number is Jiro -1-9...."

7) Dontch (Don't)
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Eg. "I dontch know what you are talking about"