From ‘How teenspeak came to be’, 14 Jan 2012, Life! Mailbag (Gabriel Phua): I have noticed that older people are trying their best to understand the short forms used by teenagers. Sometimes, when we are frustrated, it is hard to explain in proper language so we use our own terms. And when we have our [...]
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From ‘MP Seng not racist, says Shanmugam’, 25 Dec 2011, article by Teo Wan Gek, Sunday Times …During a Channel NewsAsia programme Blog TV, which aired on Monday, Mr Seng made a comment which some found to be racist. He was asked about the lack of communication with passengers during the evening peak-hour breakdown of [...]
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From ‘Survey reveals S’poreans most common taboo action’, 8 Nov 2011, article by Faris Mokhtar in sg yahoo news. A recent survey by the Singapore unit of multinational U.S. toy company Hasbro found that 63 per cent of Singaporean respondents said jaywalking is a taboo action they are most guilty of. Other top taboo actions [...]
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From ‘He’s not a fan of online vocabulary’, 21 July 2011, ST Forum online (Kang Ze Chian): …People seem to be challenging the boundaries of appropriate language by mispelling and restructuring words. This first caught my attention when I had an online conversation with a friend who spelt “no” as “nou”, “now” as “nao” and [...]
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From ‘Singlish is okay, bad English isn’t’, 7 April 2011, ST Forum online (Nicholas Aw): I FEEL compelled to express my abhorrence of the use of bad English in MediaCorp’s forthcoming quiz show ‘We Are Singaporeans’ – that is, if the trailers are anything to go by. It appears to me that the use of [...]
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From ‘LOL, teachers won’t accept it”, 27 March 2011, article by Heather Marie Lee in Sunday Times Just because the Oxford English Dictionary has accepted abbreviations such as OMG, LOL and BFF and usage of ‘heart’ as a verb to mean ‘to love’, it does not mean that English language and literature teachers are prepared [...]
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From ‘Game off for Asian accent’, 6 March 2011, article by Nicholas Yong in Sunday Times A Singaporean commenting on one of the world’s biggest computer gaming leagues is getting flak for her supposedly incomprehensible pronunciation. Ms Kelly Ong, 21, is the only Singaporean working in the GOMTV Global Starcraft II League (GSL),a large tournament-based [...]
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From ‘Fix commuter-unfriendly anomalies’, 29 Sept 2010, ST Forum (Paula Tan): …Why the (bus stop) benches are slanted is a mystery, as there is certainly no artistic merit in it. Furthermore, the benches are so narrow, one would have to have modestly sized posteriors to sit on them. …Proper English is apparently not the practice [...]
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From ‘A note too far’, 10 Sept 2010, Voices, Today online (Steve Ngo):…Is the Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) asking Singaporeans to be English language vigilantes? I’m uncomfortable with terms like “activism” which are prone to misinterpretation. … When I last checked, Singapore’s standard of English was not so controversial yet as to warrant a [...]
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From ‘Speak Good English, no sms-language please’, 28 Aug 2010, article by Esther Ng in Today online Speak Good English Movement’s chairman Goh Eck Kheng was shocked by an email recently. It was not just the sms-language – truncated words and poor spelling – but that it came from a senior manager of a “service-oriented” [...]
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