YOURSAY | Rais throwing stones in a glass house

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YOURSAY | ‘Bahasa Malaysia too has borrowed many foreign words.’Rais rues use of 'disgusting' English names over Malay for local placesAB Sulaiman: It’s so comforting to see the common reaction to Rais Yatim’s pronouncement on the popular use of English words to name buildings and residences. He mourned over the naming of places like Ampang Waterfront and such.The fact of the matter is that one language borrowing a foreign word for its own use is pretty common in human history. Indeed, this borrowed word is known as a “loanword”. There are plenty in English like “pyjama” and “bungalow”, which I learnt were borrowed from India.The Malay language, too, has borrowed many foreign words like dosha for dosa (sin) and phala for pahala (good spiritual merit), both from Sanskrit.Rais might be happy that even some Malay words have been loaned