Re: Lee Dynasty Laughing All The Way To The Bank
Thank goodness for the internet and new media. The problems in SG are surfaced and cant be swept under the carpet
A different dialect is a different way of thinking which is a threat to dictators. Cantonese does not have 9 tones for nothing. How words are chained together and the noun phrases created dictate what concepts have more emphasis. For artificial bureaucratic languages they are lousy versions of computer languages. English in Singapore is not English as the way the language is allowed to be expressed is controlled to serve the ruling dictators. Fortunately, information rich encoded English comes into Singapore. And the internet is offering a challenge to the ruling dictators who are very starved of thoughts besides being in power and lying to stay in power.
Thank goodness for the internet and new media. The problems in SG are surfaced and cant be swept under the carpet