How many times have you seen “Pokok” written as “Poko” in Sabah?
August 15th, 2008I noticed that people who offer their services pruning or cutting down trees in urban areas are prone to advertising their services on small pieces of wood, then sticking them indiscriminately: on electric poles, on trees etc.
Invariably written in Malay, most of the time “pokok” would be written as “poko”, like this one I spotted near Wisma Kewangan, Kota Kinabalu while waiting for the light to turn green on the 14th of July:
Then, on the 7th of August, I happened to stop at exactly the same spot, turned around and saw “pokok” spelt correctly. The mobile phone number’s different, I wonder if this guy forcibly took down the other guy’s “advertising spot”?
Still, shouldn’t it be “tebang pokok” instead?
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Tebang pokok makes sense. What about bantai pokok?
Alamak, like that also got kah???
if am not mistaken..most of these people who offer tree cutting service kan…are OM or PTI one..so they don’t have proper Bahasa Melayu class that is why..jadi Poko poko macam poco poco
Rightly so!
YA KEBANYAKAN YG ADVERTISE MESTI INDONESIAN….
TAPI JANGAN SAJA “SODOMIZE POKO”…….
TAPI KALAU YOU GO ON THE ROAD, SOMETIMES ADA SIGNBOARD ROAD REPAIR…. YG SALAH HABIS…
MACAM “HARAP MAAF, KARAJA SADANG DIJALANKAN”…. HEHEHE
I still remember the time when usage of the S-word evoked genuinely funny reactions; however since September 1998 it has been waaay overused…….
actually, the ‘tebang poko’ is a trademark of the fellow who doing the business.
if you happen to see the correct ‘ejaan’ with different phone number, it could be his business rival.
‘tebang poko’ have been posted around since i’m in secondary school, so imagine how have he been work ‘bantai-ing poko’.. LOL
Secondary school? That’s like how long ago: 20 years ago?
tu papan inda sukup maybe? @_@ hahahahahahahaha XD
i saw this everwhere “Tebang Poko”
Gosh ndak cukup papan this…kekeke