why it's not a bad thing when singlish is a inefficient language and the whole nation using it? isn't it regression?
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Can Singlish show to the rest of world?
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why it's not a bad thing when singlish is a inefficient language and the whole nation using it? isn't it regression?
you don't have to speak mandarin or dialect in english, which is singlish. u could go speak directly in mandarin, or dialect. less miscommunication in that way. go straight to the source:
customer: gway diao jig bwah! mai hum, ai hiam! (translation: one plate of kway diao! no cockle please! please add chilli!)
why rooting for a inefficient language singlish? why go from point A to point B via point C? why not go from point A to point B directly??
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You stupid retard !!
I have never heard the phrase " English helicopter" in the local context !!
Wake up from your high horse or do you want to sing "God save the Queen" ? You little twit !!
so u are saying there's no english educated helicopter in spore? which is a lie! THERE ARE ENGLISH EDUCATED HELICOPTER HERE IN OUR COUNTRY!
90 percent of our school subjects are in english isn't it? We are all english educated. Now, those so call elites promoted by the pap, those so call elites with helicopter vision, arent they english educated helicopter???
look at the leeching PAP. how many of the blood sucking asshole cabinet minsters are chinese educated helicopter, please tell?? how many?
no i am not chinese helicopter. i just find it uncalled for for u to get angry with those bunch of outcast those minorities. chinese educated are the outcast of singapore. why don't u pick on the tough guy PAP?
You fucking snake !!
Now, you call them outcast !! How come you don't agree with me earlier on ??
You twit !!
I'm not rooting for it. It's just there. Why are you uprooting it? It's quite useful.
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uprooting? i don't have the power and strength to do that. i am merely stating the fact: its inefficient for sporean chinese to speak mandarin or dialect using english language. wanna speak mandarin or dialect? speak mandarin or dialect directly.
if wanna go from point A to point B, go straight. don't go one round via point C and get to point B. its a waste of energy.
Can you stop repeating ?? You stupid parrot !!
because it leads to the same conclusion, those discussions and questions:
singlish is not a efficient language.
singlish is not a efficient language.
this discussion's making me all blur blur...
Actually, it is quite disgusting when you hear depressing Singlish in shopping malls, supermarts, and so on.
At times, I really can't make out what are those couples saying, especially young couples... For example, "I say no go watt, you go, go, go la, ask me for watt" KNN, WTF is it all about ??
WTF, another one, "Like that can meh ??" Can what ??
Pardon me.... "You drive come and pick me la, got thins to bring home."
"mummy where ar ? assed her not to walk here walk there she wun listen, now find, find, find, can not find her"
WTF !!!
At times, I really can't make out what are those couples saying, especially young couples... For example, "I say no go watt, you go, go, go la, ask me for watt" KNN, WTF is it all about ??
WTF, another one, "Like that can meh ??" Can what ??
Pardon me.... "You drive come and pick me la, got thins to bring home."
"mummy where ar ? assed her not to walk here walk there she wun listen, now find, find, find, can not find her"
WTF !!!
Exactly, Singlish is very efficient for getting things done and understood in Singapore and among Singaporeans. Very direct. No need to detour through British English or American English or PRC Chinese.
what are u talking about?? singlish is not direct. its indirect. speaking mandarin or dialect in english, thats indirect.
speaking mandarin or dialect as it is, without translating into english, thats direct.
Hi Kunta (just trying out the QUOTE reply)
I've heard enough of bad grammar that I've gotten used to it. My own relatives and friends, and myself too - if I have to use Singlish, or other, to get the message across. Having to deal with workers at the site when I was a project guy, and then having to switch when I need to make a presentation to a bunch of snoots who just can't wait for the presenter to make a mistake, technical, commercial, or grammatical. Ah well, all in a day's work I'd say. We've come across taxi-drivers who speak well AND intelligently, AND we've come across community leaders who can't speak for peanuts but get there by apple-polishing. At the end of the day, we shouldn't judge a person by the level of his or hers language competency. Other traits are more important.
Cheers!
ps. Which worx better in Sg? "You wanna get your butt kicked?" or "Want kena hantam izzit?"
Professionally, we should be using proper grammar so singlish should be avoided. But for casual everyday talk, we can just use whatever we're comfortable with.
Whether singlish is direct/indirect depends on the speaker/listener's experience. Most locals prob already have it synced into our heads, so processing it's comes natural.
I see nothing wrong with the existence local slang / dialects / pidgins, they all come about naturally. However, we gotta use them in the right places.
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