Recently, my college launched a campaign encouraging students to speak english.
Well there's nothing wrong with having a English-Speaking campaign, but I noticed something seriously funky (as in fuking funny!) when freshies are forced to wear an equally funky badge that says "Speak english with me!"
I really wonder whether this initiative will actually encourage students to speak more english. It's just like one of those "SAYA ANTI-RASUAH" badge worn by the police, and we all know where they are in terms of rasuah!
The whole idea of this might really backfire too. The first thing that came into my mind when I saw the badge wasn't to speak in english, but to think, "Wow, is the standard of english in the college so low that we have to be made to wear speek inglish badges?"
Seriously, with the style conscious mentality of our youth nowadays, do they expect us to wear a badge whose design is fit for teaching a kindergarten art class? Man look at those star-people things! They would be better off telling my baby cousin to speak english.
I don't think the badges come cheap either! With all due respect to dudes who came up with this whole thing, I think the amount paid for these badges could be better spent on other areas. Like getting a more internet lines in the computer lab instead of having 100 people leeching on what seem to be half an internet connection! Or clean toilets! Or soundproof classrooms! Or this! Or that! But not this! [I smell MCA cronyism, but maybe I'm too biased toward a certain blue-colored scale emblem.]
It is hard to get a person to learn another language when he does not see the need for it. There are many ways to encourage english speaking, but in my opinion, wearing badges is definitely a no-go.
Funkyyyyyy....
