Just because of bad english....
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I can't believe it, in today's Sunday Times, Sylvy decided not to see the dentist because the dentist' receptionist has bad english...
Sit or Seat
Sylvy Soh, one of the team members dreaded the thought of it, but the offending molar had to be removed and so she dragged herself to the dentist.
'Hi, I'm here for my appointment,' she told the receptionist. 'Ok, please take a sit,' came the reply without a glance at the patient.
'Ex...excuse me?' Sylvy stammered.
'I said, please seat down. The dentist will be ready in a while.'
Sylvy tried to figure out if the receptionist meant for her to walk to the end of the room, carry one of the plastic chairs over so that she could put it down in front of her. It suddenly struck her. 'Oh! You mean to tell me to sit down on the seat over there!' Sylvy said.
The receptionist turned to look at her squarely in the face. 'Can you seat on the sit until the dentist is ready?'
'But I can't seat! Seat is something one can rest his bottom on, not something that can be done!
'I can only sit down, not seat!' Sylvy cried in dismay. 'Yah!' the receptionist agreed: 'Seat!'
Sylvy left without seeing the dentist. -
please take a sit is wrong?
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Take a seat.Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:please take a sit is wrong?
sit is verb.
seat is noun. -
uhh... i think the person must go to a proctologist instead.. for being so anal
btw, the way a lot of people mangle words when speaking, it's kinda hard to differentiate 'seat' and 'sit'
and yes... you do not 'take a sit'
however, if you add a 'h' to the sentence, it may make sense
p.s. anyway, i've noticed that a lot of people pronounce 'i' as 'ee' and the other way around... where 'peace' becomes 'piss'.. sometimes, i do have to stifle my laughter
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hmmOriginally posted by Ponders:Take a seat.
sit is verb.
seat is noun.
how the person noe the reception said sit instead of seat?
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wtf
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I have been wondering myself too...Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:hmm
how the person noe the reception said sit instead of seat?
it takes a person to pronounce words properly to be able to say sit and seat different.
If sylvy thinks the receptionist has poor english, the receptionist wouldn't have been able to differentiate phonetically 'sit' and 'seat'.
unless Sylvy pronounce "seat" as "see-utt" (spanish car brand)
So she had expected the receptionist to say, "please take a see-utt", -
i think slyvy is a retard
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i guess if the receptionist ask her to take a seat (pronounced : SAY-UTT), she will go to the showroom and buy one
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"to take a seat (pronounced : SAY-UTT)" would imply that it is free and so she would be so happy and say, "got a letter of entitlement for me to collect the car?" I think that is not beyond her considering that she thinks she should pick up a chair when someone asks her to take a seat/sit.Originally posted by Master -_-:i guess if the receptionist ask her to take a seat (pronounced : SAY-UTT), she will go to the showroom and buy one
If the receptionist asks her to take a number, she would be lost because the receptionist did not also tell her which number to take since numbers are infinite.
If she makes the receptionist angry with her nonsense and she asks her to go jump into the lake, she would report that person to the police for threatening to kill her because she can't swim.
If she goes to church and the priest says : "My daughter, I forgive your sins" she would report him to the Pope because that means he is her illegitimate father and priest are supposed to be celibate.
If she goes to the movie, she will complain the ticket collector to the management because he asks her to show him her ticket and never said to GIVE him the ticket so that he could tear away the stub.
If her husband asks her if she has come yet, she will stare at him and ask him whom he thinks he is having sex with if she is not there yet? -
if i want to go to the dentist, i want to know how good is the dentist, not how good is the nurse's engrand
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someone should write to them and scold them for publishing the crappiest newspiece ever published in the crappiest of the crappy newspieces
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so yaya papaya~
she thinks her english v good meh? -
mai siao eh
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sunday times has degraded into a bigger version of TNP
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sylv is a retard. "seat" and "sit" pronounced by most people have no audible differences. Since she is so damn anal, she deserves to have all her teeth rot away in protest of so-called bad english dentist receptionists.
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That's so dumb. The dentist is better off without a patient like that.
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Not as if she was told to Take a Sh|t.
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LOL.
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was the big fuss??
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Full of s*it.
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What a snob.
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Lol..
What's wrong with singaporean nowaday.
Receptionist ask her to "take a sit" just go and sit down la... comment on people's mispronounication... nothing better to do is it
This brings back my memory about the election whola 2 years back... Still remember the mincemeat noodle by mr brown? I want mincemeat noodle with no liver.... then the stall owner gives him one that has pig liver... then no happy say i said i dun want liver right ... the stall owner said sorry.. i change for u... but then the customer said:" no, i want to know y u put pig liver despite me telling u not to" Singaporean so bo liao? -
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maybe its the " time of the month "