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Remember: 'Stamp' not 'Chop'!

Anyone noticed the advertisement today? The title above is the main topic of the advertisement.

It starts with a student walking into the teacher's office, requesting the teacher to 'chop' on his letter. The teacher looked the student in agony, asking the student to confirm what the student wants. The student answers the same for the question. The teacher then asked the student the 'chop' he mean is 'C-H-O-P', the student agreed to the spelling. Guess what, the teacher literally 'chopped' the letter (with his headband on, and with his 'battle cry', he did just that) ...

As Malaysians, Manglish is widely used in our lives. Well telling people here to 'chop' would do no harm to your document (unless you met a person that doesn't withstand Manglish or don't understand Manglish). In other countries, they won't understand the 'chop' term in Manglish as they only use pure English (for worst case scenario, they may do what the teacher in the ad do to the student).

We should try avoid using 'chop' in English (using 'cop' in BM is okay, I can't think of other terms in BM for 'stamp') and by avoiding it meaning to use the term 'stamp'.

So, remember to tell people to STAMP your letter, NOT CHOP ...

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