LOL, if you haven't noticed our government has given up on
stamping out Singlish, but talking about code switching in
parliment as well.
The basis of being able to code-switch is to know good English, and
that's what they have been talking about of late.
The real reason why our English standards are dismal is not the use
of Singlish, but because our English standards are (by western
standards) indeed dismal and there has obviously been a failure in
one way or another in our hodgepodge language policies. Singlish
simply moved in to fill the gap that our English education failed
to provide to the masses who fell behind in the program, and
indeed, a symptom and not the cause of the disease.
As I said Mat Toro, you can moan all you want but Singlish will be
here to stay for the simple reason if you want practicality and
implementation, Singlish is pratically impossible to wipe out. As
long as the Singaporean non elite exists with a feel of his land
and culture, there will be Singlish.
So as someone said, long live Singlish.
