Language

Just to write something that caught my mind.

I was busy replying some mails when I came across this well-written mail in BM.

excerpts:

Sehubungan dengan itu bantuan pihak tuan adalah diperlukan untuk membuat beberapa konfigurasi yang sewajarnya supaya ...
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Pihak kami amat mengalu-ngalukan kepakaran serta nasihat teknikal daripada pihak tuan sekiranya kaedah imlementasi di atas dirasakan kurang sesuai atau sebagainya.
Maklumkan semula kepada pihak kami jika ada perkara-perkara lain sebagai tambahan yang perlu dilakukan.


Ok. How to put this ya? I am not very good in English, but I find extremely hard to reply mails in BM. I mean, for IT field, it is kinda weird, isn't it? There are lots of terms that we use daily in English, and how on earth I want to put it in BM. Of course I can translate directly words to words but in a sentence? It's pretty challenging I tell ya.

Yes I know I can easily answer him in English but another thing that bothering me is, I don't want to give this impression, 'Helooo busuk sgt ke ur Malay sampai u kenot reply in BM' or 'gila perasan bagus minah ni reply in mat salleh'.


It's not easy.


So I wrote halfway like this:

Konfigurasi telah selesai dilakukan..
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Dari segi setting dan kaedah implementasi, semuanya nampak baik dan tidak mendatangkan masalah


Then I paused a while and reread my lines like thousand times to make sure it is right, and sounds right!

But I still rasa my answer horrrorrrr okkkk.

So I cancel it and write this:

Configuration completed and effective immediately.

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As for technical setting and implementation, all looks ok and should be no problem for both sides.

Don't you think it sounds simple and better? I hope he won't see it as an offense.




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