why on earth are u biting your own tails for anyway?
there are many english speaking white dudes who dont know basic
spelling and grammmer and often mix up" they are" as
>>>>"their" and "there".and thats just for
starters.......they have far worse english people who cant write a
simple sentence with severe spelling and grammer errors every 5
words.and they arent even drunk or high on drugs.
these are from white english speaking dudes who have english as
their sole communicating language!so what are u making so much fuss
about???
and why do u want to complain about your own singaporeans and
make excuses about having to stick to some family business at the
cost of your personal life??if u dont like singapore...its
perfectly all right to go setup your own english school in some
other country or go relocate in country u can do business in.....no
one is holding u back.so stop complaining bout the chaps n blokes
you come across with everyday in singapore.
Maybe because Singapore has sold itself as an English speaking
country to other countries, promoting that point to the world as
'the' definitive reason to set up business here? People tend to
nitpick on something only after you use it as a leverage when in
effect, the leverage commands no weight. Before that, they may not
even notice it.
Or how about the fact that not only can few Singaporeans speak
proper conversational English (not asking for Queen's diction or
flowery vocabulary), they can't even master the mother tongue like
the Chinese and Taiwanese do with Mandarin and the Hongkies can
with their spoken Cantonese.
Have you heard the hideous mangled version of Mandarin the
Singaporeans speak, save for a very very very tiny number of truly
effectively bilingual elites like the president scholar this year
from Dunman High who's going to China for her undergrad and
graduate studies?
Worse, is how the government is trying hard to snuff out
whatever that's left of dialect, which is spoken fluently by the
older generation because they feel it's bad for business over the
long run, considering how the people can't even master basic
Mandarin or English..they thought to themselves in their usual
pragmatic fashion: we have to wipe out what's left of dialect to
start to untangle this horrible mess. But I don't blame them
really. Because the situation IS a horrible mess, with the bulk of
the population unable to speak intelligible English or mother
tongue that is competent enough to compete on the world stage. What
a pity..because at least these senior citizens are speaking
something (their dialect) fluently and they would be about the only
Singaporeans who can speak something fluently.
Seriously, put a typical local university undergrad with an
American in the same room (i've seen how some of your undergrads
come to US state schools on exchange programmes and make a fool of
yourselves), and then put a typical local undergrad with a Chinese
or Taiwanese undergrad, and watch the Singaporean local undergrad
self-destruct in the face of competently spoken "world-class" (your
favourite phrase, touche!) English and Mandarin.
I'd LOVE to relocate my family and all of our business to the
states from this place, it's already partially there, but sunk cost
from the 70s to now has gone too far now and the market has been
established to a point that it doesn't make sense to reverse.
Frankly I love the place for whatever nostalgic memories I made
in my growing years at home and in school here up to JC from a
child, parts of the city with remnants of the past are (still)
charming, and it has great, sound leaders with intelligent big
picture thinking and foresight. Its the people that make up this
place which truly make it a shithole.
