Scott Blomquist's space: Language

Scott Blomquist's space: Languagehttp://sblom.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=catLanguageen-USWed, 02 Jul 2008 01:24:30 GMTWed, 02 Jul 2008 01:24:30 GMTMicrosoft Spaces v1.1http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification60http://sblom.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rssblogcategory6500239795233561901sblomMy name in Malayhttp://sblom.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A357DA76DC11D2D!152.entry<p>I was looking for one of my common user names ("sblom") in some web query earlier today. I noticed that it sure came up a lot in Malaysian blog postings. I asked a friend of mine from Singapore what it means. He told me it's probably a colloquial contraction of "sebelum", which means "before".<img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=6500239795233561901&page=RSS%3a+My+name+in+Malay&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=73329&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=sblom.spaces.live.com&GT1=sblom">http://sblom.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A357DA76DC11D2D!152.entry#commenthttp://sblom.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A357DA76DC11D2D!152.entryWed, 01 Jun 2005 19:40:34 GMT0blogentryblogentryBlog entryhttp://sblom.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5A357DA76DC11D2D!152/comments/feed.rsshttp://sblom.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A357DA76DC11D2D!152.entry#comment2005-06-01T19:40:34Z