at home: english (sometimes hokkien)
grandma: mandarin, hokkien, teochew (a lil' bit of english and
cantonese)
friends: mostly english; but have to switch to mandarin when
speaking with chinese-speaking people though.
ah bengs/ah lians: speak to 'em in hokkien , they don't understand.
jialat.
speak to 'em in english; they say what talkin' you? speak to 'em in
mandarin; they say; that's our local paikia language (plus the
hokkien profanities).
online: english
anyway, both sides of my family are english-speaking. And in
contrast, quite a no. of friends speak mandarin and obviously i
wouldn't have any problems.
can't speak to ah bengs/ah lians in english; we're the english
elite, and hearing their terrible english; it's a total disgrace.
you know.. their local lingo is mandarin, mandarin, mandarin (+
hokkien profanities)
low-class sad sods; society's losers. no qualms about that.
Singlish? Hmmmm... go read the newspapers about 'em and f*ck
pro-singlish/everything singlish fugheads!
