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movingtospore wrote: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]
The dropped prepositions, pronouns etc, comes from the way Chinese and Malay are spoken, I understandJR8 wrote:'Eh uncle, have curry puff or not ah?'movingtospore wrote: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.
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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....
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....
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"
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"

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