Not A Standardised Way Of Saying It
(In South Africa, the years in school used to be called, “standards,” like in Malaysian primary schools, but in the 1990s they switched to calling them, “grades,” like in the USA. My friends in this story are in their late 30s, so they would have been in school before the change.)
Me: “English is my home language; I only learned Malay in Standard One.”
South African Friend #1: “You have standards?”
South African Friend #2: “Hey, that’s not nice, to say she doesn’t have standards.”
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