I think 'try' is a verb that is commonly misused, even for myself. Sometimes I catch myself using it in contexts that do not have any meaning. For example, if I say, 'I will try to do this question'. What does that really mean? If I go ahead and do the question, I am doing it. Doesn't matter whether I get the answer right. If I stop myself from doing the question, then I am not doing it. Isn't that right? So where does the word 'try' come in, for this case? Or if my sister tells me to buy something from the market and I say, 'I will try and see if they sell it.' In the same perception, it's wrong too right? Another example is 'I will try and stop smoking'. Of course, the word 'try' does exist in other contexts like 'I will try to achieve my new year's resolutions.' That kinda makes sense to me.
Oh and yesterday, I wanted to use this sentence, 'I nearly freaked out'. Then I realised that the word 'nearly' in this case doesnt make sense. Like how can you feel freaked out but then stop yourself from doing so?
Haha, okay these are just random thoughts i'm posting here :)
In the future, I will make sure I speak Malay to my kids. It saddens me when I talk to kids from Malay families in Malay and they aren't able to understand what I am saying. I'm not saying that my Malay is good but I do love the Malay language. The reason why I feel that it is very important to know Malay is that it opens doors for our future generation to learn the Malay culture. By communicating with our Malay society, especially the older generation, that's when they will gain insights on our history and our heritage. Personally, I have this hypothesis in my head that the reason why some of us are so carried away with the Western culture is that we are not rooted to our own. And I definitely do not want my kids in the future to be influenced by the negative sides of the Western culture. The strong link between language and culture could possibly be why America and British are both holding on to their languages and not combine them together. (just another random though, fyi)
It's the same with Arabic. Just that Arabic is way more powerful because the door to knowledge is with Arabic. The All-Knowing talks to us in Arabic. The most wise man in the history of mankind talked in Arabic. Our scholars wrote books in Arabic. Im still nowhere in my knowledge of Arabic but I truly find it fascinating. I hope I can master it someday, insyaAllah :)
