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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 { 9:30 pm } ;
0 repliesmy DRO colleague, Shy, came across an article on the electric new paper.
TAIWAN CELEBS POKE FUN AT OUR ENGLISH, UPSET S'POREAN NETIZENS SAY: Our English is not perfect but it's better than yours
By Liew Hanqing http://youtube.com/watch?v=eYuIg7Tnc7gi do feel rather annoyed at the outrageous act of the so-called celebs. oh come on! have you heard yourselves speaking English?! it's horrendous! okay, maybe i'm putting too general already. i believe Scholars can speak good english, but these celebs? they speak mandarin everyday on their show, their english sound like their dialect can?! honestly, i've met people from taiwan & china and most times, i have difficulty understanding their english. they say they have problems understanding us, well, they have problems understanding the spoken english of the americans or the british especially. so really, it's not us, it's them. it's a well-known fact that we have our own english here & that's singlish. (don't remind me of that incident during the symposium our arrongant neighbours said they have manglish in their country. well, too bad ours is more well-known my friends) & yeah, we do have quite a lot of abbrevations but it works well for us here. so, i don't see any problems with that. & it's true what was written in the article. we, singaporeans speak a lot of singlish among ourselves because it has become a habit, a culture in our country. but when the need is there-for presentations in front of VIPs or even to tourists, the standard of english is relatively high.
I can be an example of that. i do speak singlish often to my friends, with much expletives, & every now and then, i practise my mother tongue with my peers too. but once i'm at work, I speak standard english and sometimes, with an accent. british, some say. it can get tiring sometimes though. haha.
anyway, i feel that our english is a good asian mixed. it may not be perfect, but good enough for others from the US, the UK or even from Asia, to understand. so don't criticise us because we're from a multi-ligual nation, just look at yourselves in the miror and listen to you speak. you'll notice that sometimes, you don't even understand what you're saying.
HAH!well, besides that article, i just can't believe that i've watched 3 movies within a span of 1 week. madness la. i've never done this before la! haha. i'm just hoping i have enough to go by till the end of the month. especially with the party plans we have for next friday.
weeee! my fren, dyanne, from animal farm will be joining us too. hehehe. honestly, i can't wait!
& nurhaliza osman, the mouse face who was once our miss universe, SO SUCK AT ACTING!! i honestly dunno why the hell she's back on screen. wtf were they thinking?! putting as chinese/nyoya character when 1) she doesn't look chinese & 2) i dunno what accent she's trying to follow - she sounded indian, chinese & malay at different times as josephine.
GET NINA HALIM BACK ON SCREEN!!! HAHAHA
