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Things I love about Singapore!!! Singlish
Bitched on: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Time: 8/21/2007 07:33:00 PM
Suddenly feeling very patriotic.
In the spirit of the Republic's National Day, allow me to blog about what I love about Singapore.
Singlish. Where did it come from? What's its influence? Whatever it is, Singlish sets us locals apart from the foreigners, expats or sin chiaos (newcomers). Be proud of it, we are only 42 years of age and we have our own accent (some see it as our own hybrid of the English language).
So what if the foreigner doesn't understand us? Do they care that we have a hard time understanding their American or Australian or British accents?
And I simply love the fact that Singlish gets its sentence structure and wide vocabulary from our many native Asian languages. Chapalang...
See? One word can explain so much. That's Singlish for you.
Bitched on: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Time: 8/21/2007 07:33:00 PM
Suddenly feeling very patriotic.
In the spirit of the Republic's National Day, allow me to blog about what I love about Singapore.
Singlish. Where did it come from? What's its influence? Whatever it is, Singlish sets us locals apart from the foreigners, expats or sin chiaos (newcomers). Be proud of it, we are only 42 years of age and we have our own accent (some see it as our own hybrid of the English language).
So what if the foreigner doesn't understand us? Do they care that we have a hard time understanding their American or Australian or British accents?
And I simply love the fact that Singlish gets its sentence structure and wide vocabulary from our many native Asian languages. Chapalang...
See? One word can explain so much. That's Singlish for you.
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