Preserve the culture, enhance the basics.
Language itself is a way of communications for one another, am I
right? is it possible to speak fluent english and expect some very
low level but highly skilled people to understand the meaning?
Would it be better to use singlish?
Example: Uncle Wong tells his carpenter, My dear craftsman,
would you please enlighthen the corners of your fabulous work piece
and curved out the replacement joints with dove tails?
His craftsman will say : huh????
But if it's this: Eh uncle, tat corner ah, ah , "yong hei lei"
(use that) dove joint, "ka hao kan" (better looking)
His craftsman will say :ok eh sai... no problem!
:)
Like we have said, there's a time and place for
everything. Commonsense dictates that you have to do what's
necessary to communicate.
However, all said, our point is, Singlish should not be accepted
as English.
