Talk:Singlish/2007-2008 archive
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another meaning of singlish
Sinhalese-English transliteration is also called Siglish. (Sinhala+English->Singlish) Consider adding a notice of this in the article. Dasiths 12:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC) "Singlish" has another meaning: Simplify English used as a universal web language (refer to a web site at http://www.scribd.com/doc/1001/Singlish by Johnson Gao.
Use of "kena"
>>"Be careful that kena is not used with positive things" - Is this really accurate? My Peranakan relations always use phrases like "kena 4D" and "kena third prize". I suppose this could be attributed to their being more adept in Malay than the average (Chinese) Singaporean who uses it with negative connotations, but I figured that I ought to point it out anyway. 203.116.91.80 04:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Japan
Removed the segement about Japan from the Phonology section for the following reasons. 1) Off topic 2) uncited 3) Untrue Japanese has been absorbing words from other languages almost from the begining of recorded history. It imported its original writing system whole hog in 5th century BC. It hasn't been "deformed" by recent adoption of English words to identify certain modern concepts any more that it was "deformed" by the original absorption of Chinese characters when they were adopted to deal with various religious/political concepts that came from China. Even if it did it there is little weak correlative relationship between Singish's relationship to English and Japanese's. The Phonology section in general needs a massive edit, but I'll leave it to someone with a stronger background. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.125.111.50 (talk) 07:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
