Comments on: People in Glass Houses… http://theunspunblog.com/2008/08/04/people-in-glass-houses/ Unspinning communications and persuasion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:20:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rima fauzi http://theunspunblog.com/2008/08/04/people-in-glass-houses/#comment-51763 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:51:04 +0000 http://unspun.wordpress.com/?p=1247#comment-51763 aduh unspun,
this is the feshen of indonesia, you know? if we talk fis tu fis kan certification sounds like sertification? i ting it is feri normal.

(read with indonesian accent and intonation.)

]]> By: michael chick http://theunspunblog.com/2008/08/04/people-in-glass-houses/#comment-51755 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:45:15 +0000 http://unspun.wordpress.com/?p=1247#comment-51755 BTW, the Japanese pronouce “Buttery not Included”, so it’s not limited to Singlish and Manglish only….

Japanese phonetics:
A, I, U, E, O IS pronounced
Ah, Ee, Oo, Eh, Oh.

Much like Indonesian/ Bahasa Baku in Malaysia. Hence, the Japanese can read/ rattle off perfect Bahasa without understanding a single word of it.

Just my 2 Rupiah…
(which is not worth much really…)

]]> By: michael chick http://theunspunblog.com/2008/08/04/people-in-glass-houses/#comment-51754 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:40:32 +0000 http://unspun.wordpress.com/?p=1247#comment-51754 Most of us find it amusing, especially in Malaysia, where the natives brag that they speak “British English”. However, when confronted face-to-face with a real-life Brit, the two parties barely understand each other. (Worse, if they are from Scotland, or speak Cockney)

What the locals fail to understand is that their “Manglish” and “Singlish” is barely comprehensible outside out Malaysia and Singapore. Bar the Oxford Dictionary spelling.

Grammatically inept, and severe colloquialism taught by well-meaning school-teachers has perpetuated this problem. Around the Globe, most label Manglish and Singlish as a form of “sing-song” version of the English Language. Who cannot help but steal a snigger….

Look at it this way, (sing it in your head if you wish)

A for air-pearl
B for Poy
C for Care-Mel

And if it’s taught incorrectly at the Kindergarten level, these younglings will perpetuate this sing-song English into adulthood, completely convinced that they are speaking the “Queen’s English”.

Get a Malaysian or Singaporean to correctly pronounce “tree” and “three”, Tai-land and Thai-Land and so on. In Bali, I was so confused when the doctor asked me if I had “Dia Horr Ria” instead of “dire-rhiya” (phonetically spelled) Finally “Berak tak berhenti-henti” (Pang Sai No Break) solved the inability to understand “Dia Horr Ria”. Drugs were administered, and I left, a happy camper…

… nuff said

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