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Gerakan's Keep Re-Inventing Theme Backfires

When I was in school back in the 70's, we used to have a slang word - "invent" - which, when loosely translated meant "bluff". So it was funny to see Gerakan's huge "Keep Re-Inventing"
banners plastered and hanging all over Georegetown when yesterday! So the cat's out of the bag. Not only they've just alluded that they've been bluffing us all these years, it seems Gerakan's going to continue doing just that in the future! The theme is so bad, that it makes "Malaysia Boleh" almost outstanding!

Interestingly, Beh Li Yih picks it up in Malaysiakini:

"Worse still, the last word in the slogan’s Mandarin pronunciation, ‘zai zhuan bian’, sounds like ‘pian’, or cheating. This makes the entire phrase to mean ‘to cheat again’."

Read her whole article here: