Zen cho order of the pure moon5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Seriously, I don’t speak like how I write in this review or in my other reviews. I suppose they drew the line at the inclusion of “ lah“? That could have easily padded the novella with another 20 pages. ![]() I did a lot of stetting: “I know it sounds wrong, but that’s how we talk” My editor & copyeditor were great but Manglish is hard to edit. Spoken and written Manglish often borrow the syntactical structure of these disparate tongues so sentences often sound ungrammatical to American and English ears. ![]() Order of the Pure Moon is written in Manglish (what we affectionately call “mangled English”), an English-based creole used in Malaysia that is liberally sprinkled with loanwords from Malay, Tamil, and various Chinese dialects. One of my job as a reviewer is to equip readers with the correct expectations, so books can find the right readers. Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (2020) by Zen Cho ![]()
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