I’m absolutely disgusted by the English standard of some Singaporeans posting in international forums.<\/p>\n
And by “international”, I meant forums that are not based in Singapore nor accessed mostly by Singaporeans.<\/p>\n
International forums, meaning, there are people from all over the world coming to that board to post stuff.<\/p>\n
I just went to one of those mobile phone forums, and incidentally saw a post with Singlish<\/em>. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes when the person actually wrote that she “bought the phone from sg”.<\/p>\n What else did she say in her various posts?<\/p>\n “no… reason scare might damgs the phone”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “and sec if i go to nokia care it will use my warranty rite? like bo hua buy few day only then need to go down to nokia care sigh…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n …<\/p>\n No, I didn’t purposely mis-spelt the words. It was purely a copy-and-paste quote.<\/p>\n Oh for crying out loud, how would non-Singaporeans or non-Asians know what she’s typing?! And she actually wrote “bo hua”. What did she think that forum was? Mediacorp TV forums or something? Jeez.<\/p>\n I really had half a mind to send her a PM to remind her that this is NOT a local forum, before I stopped myself from being so nosy.<\/p>\n I’m not an English Nazi or anything. I know my standard of English is nowhere near good either. But at least I will try and use proper English whenever I post stuff in forums, no matter local or international ones.<\/p>\n You know, the good thing is that she actually wrote “sg”, because I believe there are not that many people out there who know what or where “sg” is. (I think she played too much Maplestory or something – “Wer you from?” “O, me frm sg”<\/em> .) If she had typed “from Singapore”, then I shudder to even think about what others would have thought of us in terms of our linguistic capability.<\/p>\n PS: The forum’s address ends with a .se.\u00a0 I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s not a local site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m absolutely disgusted by the English standard of some Singaporeans posting in international forums. And by “international”, I meant forums that are not based in Singapore nor accessed mostly by Singaporeans. International forums, meaning, there are people from all over the world coming to that board to post stuff. I just went to one of…<\/span><\/p>\n