Potong already?
Jimbo heard the other day, from a friend in church, that the Malay word ‘potong’, which means ‘cut’ has become a much vilified word lately, mainly due to an advertising blitz of a local wireless broadband provider.
Apparently now, it’s politically incorrect to use the ‘P’ word as its meaning is now associated with ‘circumcision’!!!
Some people have, apparently taken offense to the advertisement, saying it belittles women. How exactly, one does not quite comprehend. Personally Jimbo thought it was a pretty creative advertisement. It certainly got everybody’s attention!
And so the meaning of the word ‘potong’ has changed, almost overnight! Just like how the meaning for the word ‘gay’ has changed: now people look at you one kind if you should declare, “I am feeling so gay today!”.
Jimbo hopes Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka would come out with new words for these Malay sentences quickly since the meaning of the word ‘potong’ has changed:
1. Dia potong jalan saya. (He circumcised my way)
2. Potong gaji. (Circumcised salary)
3. Saya mahu potong rambut hari ini. (I want to circumcise my hair today)
4. Potong stim. (Circumcised steam)
5. Ais krim potong. (Circumcised ice cream)
6. Sepotong roti. (Circumcised bread)
7. Saya mendapat sepotong baju dari ayah saya. (I got a circumcised clothing from my dad)
By the way, just so you know, circumcision actually PROLONGS the act of coitus rather than hasten it, so Jimbo don’t see how people can misunderstand that advertisement since it says, once you “cut already, it becomes faster”!!
Mon, 161109 @ 0700
what do u mean by ‘circumsised clothing’?
Clothes that have been shortened circumferentially.
me likes the last paragraph. LOL!
politicians can be that stupid and lose sight of their priority…
The potong theme probably came from one of the 15Malaysia films… Sponsored by p1 wimax.
Http://15malaysia.com/films/potong-saga/
Yup! Agreed with Doc earlier about how conservative we ‘tried’ to become as we become modernised, akin to some feeling of guilt as we are changing our ways, and leaving our old ‘values’ behind. Just take the advert as it is and stop trying to become politically correct. We should be concerned more about political ‘curruptness’ instead! Move with the times fellers and I am sure all this will be forgotten in the next few weeks!
as knowledge expands & technology hastens, our minds seemed to have become narrower. while the rest of the world advances, we’ve stagnated….no, regressed.
at this rate, being a developed nation by 2020 is but a pipe dream.
the creators of this commercial deserve an award just for capturing the nation’s attention.
hahhahaha!!
i actually clowned for p1 wimax and they kept asking me to make scissors balloons and had fun asking the malay kids- dah potong dah? aku tolong nak? hahahaa