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Wednesday, September 07, 2005


The saying goes: There's always a mountain higher.

Our ministers are always complaining about our poor command of English (peppered with phrases of other languages and our distinctly Singaporean L and M-words), but trust me, we're really not THAT bad.

Today I had a lecture by a Japanese man who was, evidently, not very fluent in English. I remember quite clearly, how he failed to use tenses in his words. In particular, for the noun die.

This is what he said:
"When you died (kill) the cells, there will no longer be a membrane potential.... so died cells will have no response to...."

And of course, there are some mispronounciations here and there, like how vision sounded like bee-shen.

Then I came across something FAR WORSE. This was what was printed behind the package of a handphone screen protector that my father bought from Taiwan:

Very is thin to have noto defend the dear degree of screen
Lee long not harm the eye
Bright vivid, colour change kaleidoscopically
Pattern plentifulness
England produces
Three defend to guarantee

So how? Still think we Singaporeans English very poor? I don't think so lor...

[Time of Confession] 10:27 PM
5 Wisecracks for Me

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5 Comments:

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10:57 PM  
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11:01 PM  
Blogger sky_boi said...

Hi

a funny post.. brought some laughters to my endless work...

well i've been hearing "sigonal" as to signals from some china profs...

lee long not harm the eye... whats lee long? haha

1:05 AM  
Blogger lilmushroom said...

oh man, i couldnt even understand what they were trying to say wahaha

12:26 PM  
Blogger Madcap J said...

i think lee long is supposed to mean 'SEE long'... apparently their typing skills aren't fantastic too

12:57 PM  

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