u can say i'm a poser for this but after living in uk for 2 1/2 years i think the singlish accent sounds terrible. and the hongkong, indo, etc people agree with me too. i'm not saying we should all adopt a brit or american accent, but i'm sure we can speak better english. singlish is plain wrong english, perpetuated over time like any other colloquial language and slowly legitimised. i agree that it forms a bond among s'poreans. i speak in singlish in s'pore too, because everyone does it, and i miss it from time to time.
but that doesn't hide the fact that it 1. is bad english and 2. sounds terrible.
come to think of it, even our chinese sounds bad. what's wrong with us??? we can do better lah!
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