Originally posted by Ah Chia:I am not against baba.
I am against the mother fucking suppression of dialects by that mother fucking bastard Lee Kuan Yew.
You baba or not baba, hokkien or not hokkien, jew or ang moh, malay or indian, I don't care.
But why you mother fucking go and suppress?
You want me to learn your colonial ang moh. I already kowtow to you already. You all have the advantage, raised on colonial language.
Fine I go and learn.
But why you come and suppress my dialect?
Still got the fucking face come tell me with straight face what learn english make the races fair.
Please lah, I hear also want to vomit blood you know.
The lesser Babas could find jobs easily in the business houses, or as junior officers in the civil service, because they were English-educated.
Despite these economic misfortunes, the Peranakan community’s investment in English education and their empathy with the British were, once again, rewarded amply.
http://lampinfoo.com/2009/01/24/can-baba-culture-be-revived/
You got face to say I don't have face to hear.
Uncle, you seem like still living in the early 1950s and 1960s leh??
The year is 2009 yeah, and it might end on 12/11/2010, Coming Soon
eh sori..should be 2012, coming Soon to the Cinema near you
If dialects were completely suppressed, why the uncles at coffee shops still talking in hokkien? Isit coz Ah Chia your english and mandarin no good, thats why want dialect revival? Dialects have died out in many chinese communities in the mainland. From your post, whats so bad abt english? If you never learn could you have written this post?
My uncle chia wanted to do the so call reverse culture system, as China peoples are embracing English more and more as days goes by, Uncle Chia wants us to take on dialect, so in near future, China will be speaking English and mandarin just like Singapore, and here, we will become like little old China
I have seen one kopitiam owner in Sinmin road speaking hokkien to his PRC workers and making them answer him back in hokkien when one of the guys asked him in Mandarin what he was saying he told them that they should learn this language plus he added the KNNBCCB at the beginning and the end of his reply.
Originally posted by Short Ninja:I have seen one kopitiam owner in Sinmin road speaking hokkien to his PRC workers and making them answer him back in hokkien when one of the guys asked him in Mandarin what he was saying he told them that they should learn this language plus he added the KNNBCCB at the beginning and the end of his reply.
you are really down to earth, you know what is at the bottom bottom of the society. Many think only english is spoken in singapore and want everybody to learn english.
But the best thing the kopitiam owner does is to make people around him speak the language.
Good for him.
Originally posted by Short Ninja:I have seen one kopitiam owner in Sinmin road speaking hokkien to his PRC workers and making them answer him back in hokkien when one of the guys asked him in Mandarin what he was saying he told them that they should learn this language plus he added the KNNBCCB at the beginning and the end of his reply.
Now is ok to play with PRC workers, but once their population get big,...and bigger, i think the kopitiam Uncle will have to learn shanghaineses language and beijing mandarin
Originally posted by sgdiehard:you are really down to earth, you know what is at the bottom bottom of the society. Many think only english is spoken in singapore and want everybody to learn english.
But the best thing the kopitiam owner does is to make people around him speak the language.
Good for him.
I also see alot of Sing Uncles in geyland learning Pu tong hua from their PRC gfs...china mandarin with a slang.
Originally posted by sgdiehard:you are really down to earth, you know what is at the bottom bottom of the society. Many think only english is spoken in singapore and want everybody to learn english.
But the best thing the kopitiam owner does is to make people around him speak the language.
Good for him.
That is right everthing goes with the territory
Originally posted by angel7030:
I also see alot of Sing Uncles in geyland learning Pu tong hua from their PRC gfs...china mandarin with a slang.
no harm in learning as many languages as possible and especially the language of your ancestors.