Originally posted by
noisylion:
lionnoisy in sgforums since May 2005. he cant use proper English for 34
months!!.
PM Lee told pple like lionnoisy to buck up, but he still dunt
can. In world class country is dis acceptable?
http://www.goodenglish.org.sg/site/
SINGAPOREANS should
strive to speak proper English and stop peppering daily
conversations with local expressions if they want to keep their
competitive edge, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Friday, May
13.
"Speak in full sentences, with proper sentences and cutting out
all the 'lars' and lors' at the end of each
sentence," Lee said at the launch of the city-state's fifth annual
"Speak Good English" campaign.
The Cambridge-educated Lee said that, with three-quarters of
Singapore's population English literate, the republic has
significant competitive advantages over other Asian nations.
"It is important for all of us to speak good English, because
English has become the lingua franca of international commerce," he
said. "English is our bridge to the world and helps Singapore to
maximise our opportunities."
Singaporeans speaking colloquial English will often end
sentences with 'lah', 'lor' or 'mah' --
suffixes derived from local Chinese dialects.
They may also literally translate sentences from Mandarin to
English, resulting in odd and grammatically incorrect phrases such
as 'I go toilet' and 'You go where, ah?' -- when they actually mean
'Where are you going?'
'Talk cock, sing song, play mahjong,' means idle talk.
Children who quarrel are often heard to threaten each other with
the words 'I don't friend you!', meaning 'You're not my friend
anymore!'
Singlish (Singapore English) also features terms like
"kiasu" (being afraid to lose) and "wowo king"
(someone who cannot fire a rifle straight).
Lee also made special mention of text-messaging English, which
is used by many of the city-state's handphone-crazy youngsters,
saying it may affect the way they learn how to spell.
In text-message lingo, 'that' is spelled 'dat', 'i see' becomes
'ic' and 'ttyl' means 'talk to you later'.
"When our English becomes too mutated, we become unintelligible
to others," Lee said. "We then have a big problem."
Lee suggested establishing proper English as a service standard
at the workplace and urged all teachers and parents to be
ambassadors of good spoken English.
Singapore, a former British colony, is host to thousands of
multinational corporations and implements an annual campaign for
citizens to speak proper English to keep its competitive edge.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw05/050513af.htm
PM Lee just repeated this advice over and over again.Yes
the lionnoisy still dunt can.
When many world country learn proper english,
this lionnoisy still dunt can (unhappily forever!)
why lionnoisy? why?
2.Forget to add.lionoisy good english is still not one more
item in his CV 20 years later!!
