2010-07-01, 07:56 PM
Alloy Wrote:The problem is when you have to decipher him. More precisely, for people whose first language ISN'T english, and have to make the extra effort he could be doing by typing it properly. Also consider it's not really an effort typing decently.
To help you decipher what Peyhwa says, all I can say is that broken English in Singapore (and for the ethnic Chinese in Malaysia too, apparently) is often the result of people translating directly from Mandarin without changing the sentence structure. It's a real pain for me, as I'm rather particular about the usage of the English language.
e.g. The Chinese metaphor "Ren Shan Ren Hai" (I'm not typing in Mandarin because you guys will probably see boxes and weird letters instead) refers to there being an extremely large number of people, so many that it seems that they form mountains ("Shan") and oceans ("Hai"). Some people unfamiliar with its equivalent in the English language may say "people mountain people sea" ("Ren" means person or people).
e.g. The Chinese metaphor "Ren Shan Ren Hai" (I'm not typing in Mandarin because you guys will probably see boxes and weird letters instead) refers to there being an extremely large number of people, so many that it seems that they form mountains ("Shan") and oceans ("Hai"). Some people unfamiliar with its equivalent in the English language may say "people mountain people sea" ("Ren" means person or people).