Taiwan Celebrities Suan Singaporean English
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Originally posted by hohaha88:
I can't believe that the Taiwanese have the cheek to criticise our English. I am confident that we speak much much better English than the majority of Taiwanese. Of course we have our slang and colloquial, and so are other English countries such as the UK and US.
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Originally posted by mudkipz:
ok i found the taty.
and now that i turned the volume up i find no diff between his thanks and our thanks
Perhaps his 'thanks' is only similar to yours. Your English is quite bad! Brush up or the taiwanese will mock at us because of you. Dont be a black sheep please! -
i hv to say that we definitely speak better english than the taiwanese.
having said that, we have a tendency to mispronounce and 'mix' certain words e.g. those starting with 'th' versus 't' such as 'three' vs 'tree'. someone who learns phonetic will spell them differently but typical singaporeans tend to pronounce them the same. think our educators need to focus and emphasize the importance of pronunciation.
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Originally posted by hohaha88:
i hv to say that we definitely speak better english than the taiwanese.
having said that, we have a tendency to mispronounce and 'mix' certain words e.g. those starting with 'th' versus 't' such as 'three' vs 'tree'. someone who learns phonetic will spell them differently but typical singaporeans tend to pronounce them the same. think our educators need to focus and emphasize the importance of pronunciation.
definitely agree.
blu_sky needs to get out more... -
Originally posted by mudkipz:
definitely agree.
blu_sky needs to get out more...
Well, i certainly get out lots. I just dont mix with people like your kind. LOL!Buck up your english and have more pride!
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Originally posted by blu_sky:
Well, i certainly get out lots. I just dont meet with people like your kind/grade. LOL!Buck up your english and have more pride!
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Originally posted by mudkipz:
then go meet with people of all kinds.meeting people of all kinds and monkey see monkey do them is one thing....
learning from the their lessons is another.....
you can have a friend who is a drug addict and either eat drugs with him or learn from wot wrong he has done and trying to improve yourself and your understanding of the world
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Originally posted by mudkipz:
then go meet with people of all kinds.
You are really messed up, kiddo.The problem lies in people like you speaking poor english and you gotta buck up. Not my lack of friends (like yourself) who speak poor english! Get it?
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Originally posted by Deino:
meeting people of all kinds and monkey see monkey do them is one thing....
learning from the their lessons is another.....
you can have a friend who is a drug addict and either eat drugs with him or learn from wot wrong he has done and trying to improve yourself and your understanding of the world
Precisely!
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so you agree that there are people in sg who speak lousy english.
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Originally posted by mudkipz:
so you agree that there are people in sg who speak lousy english.
Of course, i have said that in this thread (please see above) and have never denied that. I will never deny you of your existence. Cool.I gathered in addition to your problem in speaking good english, you have problem in reading english too!
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Originally posted by mudkipz:
so you agree that there are people in sg who speak lousy english.
we do not use lousy english......
we're just too accustomed to using english in our own ways......
i do admit that its kinda irritating when some of my friends try to mimic speaking so called ang moh english......
coz i do know ang moh who can't read english well which i find very confusing.....how can a person speak english fluently and not know how to read i thought.......
becoz of this, we tend to speak brokeded english.....
the only way we can prevent this is by reminding each other, especially your friends of the errors they made.....
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Its just a drama show, no point getting all worked up over it, notice that the artistes who attended aren't even popular in singapore.. get the point folks? :D
I'm sure more folks in singapore can speak english than the folks in taiwan ;)
btw, i wonder y they dun make fun of konglish? (korean-english) or japlish? (japanese-english), maybe they know they'll be outdone by both these country's netizens.. xD
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I think that some of these Taiwanese or tourist that came to SG communicated with the many foreign nationals who are working in SG and thus thought they are Singaporeans. As I noticed many foreigners flooding the workforce especially in the frontline, ie service industry. And they have their own accents as well. That's y 1 of the host was asking "isnt that slang from M'sia'. Philipines etc"...
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we have to admit that some singaporeans hav gd command of english, some moderate and mayb some poor, but i think majority of us hav a better command of the language than the taiwanese, not in terms of language structure of cos (singlish comes to mind), but in terms of pronunciation. if u hav watched enough taiwan "we can speak gd english" shows, be it variety or drama or watever, u will get wat i mean. so if they want to make a fool of themselves, which they hav done so often in their politics, let them be.
sidetrack... y r they not daring enough to talk abt china's command of english on the show? think abt it guys...
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ok whose english gives u shivers, thai or jap? thai/viet for me
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when japanese pronounce english they really are �愛�〜(especially the girls)
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all i can say is that they are cowards, why apologise after the comments, no b*@ls
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Worse are those to apologised insincerely and retract them later. Coward.
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Originally posted by X k:
when japanese pronounce english they really are �愛�〜(especially the girls)
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Originally posted by mudkipz:
ok whose english gives u shivers, thai or jap? thai/viet for me
Maybe they sounded funny but at least they understood what you were saying
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Maybe they sounded funny but at least they understood what you were saying
Yes, let's learn humility. And instead of focusing on what others cant do, how about appreciating what others can do? -
Talk about double standards, what comes round goes round.......
Brain drain, talent mismatch hold Taiwan back
Multinational companies also complain that candidates have weak English skills. -Reuters
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