Mandarin speaking people sucks!!!

last SG · 2006-12-14T10:15:22+00:00

and i am proud of people like you.

LazerLordz SG

Singlish isn't low class at all. It is our identity, a product of post-colonial resistance. Mai sng sng ah...

dragg SG

Many young litterbugs are also Mandarin-speaking youths. When I visited Melbourne some months back, I was greatly impressed at the clean streets. I saw everyone putting their litter into bins, and there were no cleaners around.

read this again.

what has littering got to do with the language spoken? obviously she thinks that ang-mos dont litter.

so its about the skin colour and not the language.

choco B SG

LOL That post is beyond dumb

798 SG

there is something i feel our education sys or modern days screw up the use of language. whoever coming wif wif the rojak shogun 'Hua Yu Cool!' (noticed the mixture of chinese n english) need to be shot!

nowaday mandarin songs is like 60% in chinese words whereas 40% mixture of hip-hop english lyrics.

for ABC singers like wang lihong n jay chou wrote songs wif mixture of lyrics will send wrong messages to fools dat make them believe dat is cool. ?

it's no wonder why the writer has dat kinda impression of these kids today. but i feel she is wrong making dat assume dat all chinese speaking pple are ah bengs/lians. Evil or Very Mad

LazerLordz SG

Originally posted by dragg:
[b]Many young litterbugs are also Mandarin-speaking youths. When I visited Melbourne some months back, I was greatly impressed at the clean streets. I saw everyone putting their litter into bins, and there were no cleaners around.

read this again.

what has littering got to do with the language spoken? obviously she thinks that ang-mos dont litter.

so its about the skin colour and not the language.

[/b]

Little kids are ignorant. And they think they know it all.

This is what I call a lack of intellect.

dragg SG

and she was quick to say she is not an elite.

i would have found her comments more acceptable if she were one!!!

Mad Mad Mad

LazerLordz SG

I felt the pride of being a Cantonese abroad. Embarassed

Cenarious SG

well our identity is that of immigrants who were desperate in their own countries. our identity sucks so dont be so proud of it.

ditzy SG

The author of that letter is an elitist, a relative of Ms Wee. Laughing

dragg SG

i agree with you on this.

you hardly find an english song with chinese phrases.

listen to those songs by pan wei bo. knn, it sucksss!!!

LazerLordz SG

Fine, that's your own opinion. Did you know that most defenders of Singlish against government efforts to stamp it out; are the English-educated Singaporeans who have travelled widely abroad?

Singlish forms a bond between Singaporeans, something that is not quantifiable. If Creole is accepted by West Indians as a basic form of intra-cultural communication and they do possess the ability to code-switch, mind you; why can't we see beyond the state-led psychological campaign to paint it as irrelevant and primitive?

What we should promote is the ability to code-switch. You can never remove Singlish from the Singaporean pathos, because it is a melting pot of all the cultures that were here in the beginning, and the patois and pasar malay, pasar tamil definitely has had a role to play in the long-forgotten birth of this patois.

dragg SG

are you saying your identity sucks because you are an immigrant?

BadzMaro SG

is Elitists really so de elite ? Its like rich ang moh that drive BMW or Mercedes there but only can drive Waja in Malaysia.. Laughing

play_n_play SG

the american speaks loudly and noisy especially the blacks...

pinkish purple papayas SG

actually many office working environment are very mandarin speaking, as an engineer, i need to converse a lot to my clients in english.

here's a tip on how to make ur client smile,

most people speak english as a facade, if they treat u inside the "circle of trust" they will speak mandarin already.
during discussions, just said something in mandarin, sure to make everyone smile and an effective ice-breaking method. (thats if ur listeners are chinese too)

besides, mandarin is the language which is hardest to learn and more refined language in the world, 5000 years of history and culture can't be wrong. Go Chinese cities like Taipei,HK,Beijing etc observe the eloquence of the language.

Chinese languages are a really beautiful language, be it official ones or dialects.

Although i am a Singaporean, english educated and grew up in english speaking family. I am definately proud to be a Chinese and i would never do anything to degrade Chinese langauge or culture.

p.s. my mandarin is only good in singapore because everyone speaks crappy mandarin in singapore, when i go cities like beijing, i became i dumb-mute person so ashame of myself being not able to speak proper chinese. Embarassed

sigh...years of PAP's regime of trying to make SG bi-linguel, but we are neither here nor there... Crying or Very sad

udontknowme SG

dont anyhow generalize thanks Rolling Eyes

dragg SG

come to think of it, it is all the fault of our govt.

look at the ministers.

how many of them can speak chinese properly?

how many could be bothered?

they gave singaporeans an impression that chinese is of little importance for 4 decades.

how can anyone in the right mind think that their own language and own skin is something to be ashamed of?

do these people really feel they belong when they mix around with ang mos and speak english?

do these ang mos really treat you as an equal?

Mad Mad Mad

elindra SG

I agree. It makes us uniquely Singaporean in that sense.
Why should I speak to my friends with impeccable English, when it seems much more informal to speak to them in Singlish?

LazerLordz SG

hehe, see what I mean, the tar and brush hobby is so global. Laughing

shinta SG

Originally posted by LazerLordz:

Ahem, no banana bashing here ah. Evil or Very Mad

There's nothing wrong. It's the antisocial behavior that's the problem, just that the writer fails to see that. However, I'd put her in the JC age group, where she still lacks the ability to draw a fair, comparative estimate based on her observations.

If I were to stretch this a bit further, maybe it's plausible to link a lack of good social mannerisms and upbringing with the education level of their families, so there is a statistical chance that it would skew such behavior to more mandarin-speaking households.

Now this is just an estimate, so please do not flame me. You'd have to get a sociologis t to do a study on this.

becos there's more mandarin speakin household in sg?

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