What "Singlish" has crept into your vocabulary?

[Brah]

Good chap, your Dad.....

[movingtospore]

What has crept into my language...which annoys the @#$#@ out of me when I hear it...is the dropping of pronouns, prepositions, etc etc.

You have?

Don't have?

I think it's because it's just easier to be understood.

[JR8]

What has crept into my language...which annoys the @#$#@ out of me when I hear it...is the dropping of pronouns, prepositions, etc etc.
You have?
Don't have?
I think it's because it's just easier to be understood.

'Eh uncle, have curry puff or not ah?'



[One step deeper, might sound like: 'Eh uncle, hab curriedpub o'not-ah]

[GSM8]

What has crept into my language...which annoys the @#$#@ out of me when I hear it...is the dropping of pronouns, prepositions, etc etc.
You have?
Don't have?
I think it's because it's just easier to be understood.

'Eh uncle, have curry puff or not ah?'

The dropped prepositions, pronouns etc, comes from the way Chinese and Malay are spoken, I understand

[aster]

Is "long time, no see" a translation from Chinese or something that the locals have picked up from Westerners?

[Mi Amigo]

'Eh uncle, got curry puff a not ah?'

FTFY

[zzm9980]

Is "long time, no see" a translation from Chinese or something that the locals have picked up from Westerners?

Literally in Chinese it is:
好久ä¸

[JR8]

'Eh uncle, got curry puff a not ah?'

FTFY

Good one!

[rajagainstthemachine]

wah! you so damm eerietating ah? why you lai that leh ?

[Brah]

To almost go back on what I originally said, I have caught myself almost ending a sentence with "one" on a few occasions.

Outsiders think Singaporeans just say things like "lah"; one of the regular idioms I heard on a regular basis when I was in a very local working situation was at the beginning of far too many sentences, "daahwan", endlessly.

And until then I thought oredi at the end of far too many sentences was annoying....

[nakatago]

wah! wa yu liddat leh ?

[Wd40]

Most part of Singlish, I don't get annoyed, just find it funny.
Stuff like,
You download that and tell me, can?

What annoys me is the way they pronounce some words, particularly:
"Last month" is pronounced as "Las Mann"
Even the way they pronounce Singapore as "Singa poh" drives me wild. I feel like telling them Singaporrrrre, or Singapura is also ok, but not Singa poh

Another one is words that end with "ed" is pronounced as if it ends with "ud"
"Sophisticatud"
"Elevatud"

[zzm9980]

Singa poh

That's just because in Mandarin it is xin1 jia1 po1, same poh.

And being a proud citizen of the subcontinent which gave us that retarded head wobble, you shouldn't be hear criticizing anything

[rajagainstthemachine]

wah! wa yu liddat leh ?

Haiyo!

[JR8]

Singa poh

That's just because in Mandarin it is xin1 jia1 po1, same poh.

Heh, so SMS from Balti-moh ah?