English To Bahasa Melayu in Facebook
Can you read Bahasa? Facebook added support for Bahasa Melayu not too long ago. I did the funniest thing and changed my Facebook to use it. We have a thing going on with regards to English -> Bahasa Melayu translation going on in my company - we laugh about it. Things just sound weirder. For example:
1) Live feed is now suapan langsung
2) Inbox is now peti masuk
3) Links are now pautan
4) Events are now acara
5) The Developer app is now called Pembangun
6) Settings, tetapan
I'm gonna keep my Facebook in Malay for a while (maybe indefinitely?) since English can get old pretty fast, plus my BM is nowhere near where it used to be
In Facebook's defence, the translations, to me, are pretty good. The words are correct, they might sound weird but that's just probably coz I've never heard them before. If the phrases catches on, Bahasa would be enhanced by new vocabularies.
