Language and Meaning

i met a group of tourist at klcc today, they were from spain. they approached me and tried to ask me for direction but they can only speak SPAINISH! oh god! i proudly to say that i can speak 3 languages which are mandarin, english, and malay but i know nothing about spanish even though i have been wanting to take up some classes to learn spanish. so when they stop me and say some alien language, i was like what the hell do they want? i dont get it at all.. but do you all know how amazing people are to create their own language in order to make another person to get the meaning? they were trying to speak with me in english as english is an universal language but frankly speaking, their english ......... is not easy to understand! thank god, the know some simply word like 'taxi', 'where', 'go', 'kl tower', 'spain'. then i interpreted that, they are all from spain and they wanted to go to kl tower but do not know where to get a cab! so i answered back with the simplest english plus some hand gestures, i even show them the way to the taxi stand. by the time we reach the taxi stand, they can see a lot of cabs waiting there, i see relieve faces. i think they had been trying to find the way for quite long already. hahaha! i even helped them to tell the taxi driver where they wanted to go in case the taxi driver brought them to another place.

language is amazing, isn't it? we might not speak the language that other people do but when come to a point that we need to make a conversation, we will create our own word, own language, as long as the message is delivered.

-weipin-