By Raymond Tombung
Tun Musa Hitam had just shown his amusement and low opinion about this new popular terminology called “winnable candidates.” He said that it is not up to the leaders to decide but up to the people! And how true!
Personally, I have wondered how to determine if a candidate is “winnable” or not. Anyway, I am also not comfortable with the word “winnable” in this context because “winnable” actually means “can be won”. But what they mean is “able to win” (boleh menang) a phrase which has no single word to express in the English language. So we are stuck with the awkward “winnable”.