Beyonce Says Singaporeans' English Suck
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bro do you mean?
should i add i'm just trying to state an example and that its not aimed at a specific race just in case i get flamed for god knows what.haha.cheers
???lol
theliverevolution
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Well, it garnered even more attention. If one person hadn't bothered or known who Beyonce is, this definitely caught their attention this time
and to quote:
Thoese are mostly rapper's slang
do take note that not all americans are rappers lol...
actually the people who says Ris Low's english sucks should check their own English.
First mistake was "hospitlality". A minor slip, SO WHAT? she was probably nervous on TV. There was nothing wrong with her grammar. The funny part was probably that she had to THINK of what she was majoring. I do that sometimes too, but it's still funny. Nothing wrong with her command of English.
Second was that she was studying "steel". ok that's a mistake there. but tell me how many singaporeans or people in the world actually differentiate their "still" from "steel", "jeans" from "gins", "real" from "ril" or "rail"? seriously.
Reporter: "Ris, are you a fashionista?"
Ris: "Yes, i AM!!"
she's just showing enthusiasm. Until now i find no flaw with her grammar. let's move on..
Ok next mistake is "Perstonlality", another minor slip. As you can tell she's having trouble speaking so slips like that are normal. Some people do that in normal conversations too. no biggy, seriously..
OH LOOKIE...she said "red" PROPERLY!!!! how many people here pronounces "red" as "raid"..put your hands up! *puts hand up*
Next up is the infamous "booms". I have nothing to say here, it's funny and all. But I assumed what she meant to say was "Something (that) booms, something that shouts me!" this would make more sense because booms is a verb.
booms (v): to cause to resound <his voice booms out the lyrics>
she was using it metaphorically i guess, what's wrong with that? just short of a word "that". so maybe that's grammatically wrong. oh well..
This is probably the funniest part "the..... thing that i worn" another slip. grammatically perfect just that she can't think and speak at the same time and it comes out as gibberish. funny.
BIGINI!! pronunciation error. nothing major. at least she didn't pronounce it too off. how many people actually accentuate the K in bikini? i didn't think so..
So can anyone please tell me what's wrong with her command of english. something that is totally off and is worthy of ridicule from a bunch of people who don't use English well in the first place.
the only problem i have with her is her overenthusiasm that makes her clumsy and dorky and that she sounds like a retarded child (no offense to retarded children). but i have no problems with her usage of the English language.
and also she obviously doesn't know what she's talking about when she was giving her "fashion advice". it was obviously something she just randomly spat out.
First mistake was "hospitlality". A minor slip, SO WHAT? she was probably nervous on TV. There was nothing wrong with her grammar. The funny part was probably that she had to THINK of what she was majoring. I do that sometimes too, but it's still funny. Nothing wrong with her command of English.
Second was that she was studying "steel". ok that's a mistake there. but tell me how many singaporeans or people in the world actually differentiate their "still" from "steel", "jeans" from "gins", "real" from "ril" or "rail"? seriously.
Reporter: "Ris, are you a fashionista?"
Ris: "Yes, i AM!!"
she's just showing enthusiasm. Until now i find no flaw with her grammar. let's move on..
Ok next mistake is "Perstonlality", another minor slip. As you can tell she's having trouble speaking so slips like that are normal. Some people do that in normal conversations too. no biggy, seriously..
OH LOOKIE...she said "red" PROPERLY!!!! how many people here pronounces "red" as "raid"..put your hands up! *puts hand up*
Next up is the infamous "booms". I have nothing to say here, it's funny and all. But I assumed what she meant to say was "Something (that) booms, something that shouts me!" this would make more sense because booms is a verb.
booms (v): to cause to resound <his voice booms out the lyrics>
she was using it metaphorically i guess, what's wrong with that? just short of a word "that". so maybe that's grammatically wrong. oh well..
This is probably the funniest part "the..... thing that i worn" another slip. grammatically perfect just that she can't think and speak at the same time and it comes out as gibberish. funny.
BIGINI!! pronunciation error. nothing major. at least she didn't pronounce it too off. how many people actually accentuate the K in bikini? i didn't think so..
So can anyone please tell me what's wrong with her command of english. something that is totally off and is worthy of ridicule from a bunch of people who don't use English well in the first place.
the only problem i have with her is her overenthusiasm that makes her clumsy and dorky and that she sounds like a retarded child (no offense to retarded children). but i have no problems with her usage of the English language.
and also she obviously doesn't know what she's talking about when she was giving her "fashion advice". it was obviously something she just randomly spat out.
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yes because we know that ALL black americans rap or dance, are from the hood, and are poor...yo.
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Beyonce to perform in KL on Oct 25th!power.
Maybe Beyonce can tell those self-righteous zealots from PAS to chill.
Lovehurts
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African-Americans have a whole new lingo of their own! It's a different level of English. They'll say things like, "We was thinking of going for a spin in our car" and things like that.
Haha. You can hear a lot of these on shows like Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air which stars Will Smith.
Haha. You can hear a lot of these on shows like Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air which stars Will Smith.
theliverevolution
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well, each culture/society tends to have a form of English that makes logical sense to them, but not to others. In Singapore, it is Singlish or Queen's English. For the American, there would be standard American English, the African-American English, etc
Needless to say, other cultures won't understand each other's language because you would have to be in that culture to fully contemplate what it truly means
Needless to say, other cultures won't understand each other's language because you would have to be in that culture to fully contemplate what it truly means
iwantdigimon
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her english boomzz
lamestaine
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hahaha.. do you play GTA san andreas??
leilashleigh
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Hello!
I can't believe I read every single reply on this thread & it's 12 pages long! Very nice debate. Haha!
I just wanted to say that the most important thing is to be able to communicate properly & be understood by others.
To each his own, it all depends on each individual to know the situation & apply the appropriate form of language.
I can't believe I read every single reply on this thread & it's 12 pages long! Very nice debate. Haha!
I just wanted to say that the most important thing is to be able to communicate properly & be understood by others.
To each his own, it all depends on each individual to know the situation & apply the appropriate form of language.
syed_zack
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haha yeah sorry man ows typos on my post.
syed_zack
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yeah thats why i said blacks haha and they have thier own slang but its cools to her them speaking that way.haha like gta san andreas
hecklerkoch
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What I simply do not understand though, is that it is quite a common occurrence that Singaporeans seem to think -
1) Actually pronouncing the letter 'r' in a word, when they are supposed to of course, is 'speaking with an ang moh accent'.
When not pronouncing it properly, like saying 'ehplane' as opposed to, well.. 'airplane', is actually speaking with a Singaporean accent.
Accent
Pronunciation: \ˈak-ˌsent, ak-ˈ\
A characteristic pronunciation, especially:
One determined by the regional or social background of the speaker.
One determined by the phonetic habits of the speaker's native language carried over to his or her use of another language.
It's quite elementary, isn't it?
1) Actually pronouncing the letter 'r' in a word, when they are supposed to of course, is 'speaking with an ang moh accent'.
When not pronouncing it properly, like saying 'ehplane' as opposed to, well.. 'airplane', is actually speaking with a Singaporean accent.
Accent
Pronunciation: \ˈak-ˌsent, ak-ˈ\
A characteristic pronunciation, especially:
One determined by the regional or social background of the speaker.
One determined by the phonetic habits of the speaker's native language carried over to his or her use of another language.
It's quite elementary, isn't it?
