unfortunately greengoblin, you have gotten me all wrong.
i do respect their likes and dislikes. however, i do not appreciate
them shooting another person's postings down. it's is true that
there is freedom of speech in forums, and that forums were created
as an outlet of expression. however, these cc chatters simply
brought down rudyiskandar's posting from the beginning, calling him
"gek sai" or "gek seh" or something? and when rudy and some others
tried to defend the posting/opinion, they simply launched into the
primary skool banter of "u say me fool ah? u then is ah mofo!" and
such.
my post was meant as a continuation of rudy's topic, which was, if
most of the 3g singaporeans have this type of mentality, then
aren't we in serious trouble? speak to any person in the cc forum,
attempt to post a serious msg there, and all you'll get is an array
of colourful singlish insults to your disturbing their comfortable
little pigeonhole.
another thing, i love singlish. talk to me personally and i'd be
the first to be spewing forth lahs, lors and all sorts of other
singlish dialect. it's my culture too. as a peranakan nonya, i
cherish that kind of language. it's a part of my life too.
in my posting, i was appalled by the singlish because they
indirectly disrespected another forumite's posting, by beginning
their own useless bantering of arguing to see who can phrase "gek
seh" or "gek sai" better?! i mean... how do i explain the surprise
and exasperation i felt?
and if i had known about this forum earlier when i first signed up,
i wouldn't have gone in there at all. but the interface for
sgforums didn't shout this page out, so i had only recently
discovered this site.
i hope this has cleared up your misunderstanding of my post.
peace love unity respect PLUR
