meiteoh
Well-Known Member
I had no idea what this drama revolving around the Miss Universe pageant was about so I went online and checked it out.
Needless to say, I got a shock. Listening to Ris Low brought back many memories of me sitting in front of the telly condemning numerous Malaysian beauties during beauty pageant shows like Miss Universe and Miss World. These girls are representing the country, going up to people and saying things like how English is widely spoken in our country and/or is one of the official languages but they can't string a grammatically correct sentence together.
To be honest, I hadn't expected this from a Singaporean. And I'm not complaining about the accent - that is a given. But saying things like "studying steel" when she actually means that she is still studying, heh? And the diction...omg.
Your government push for the English language to be incorporated into many facets of life from politically, legally to even socially and academically. You don't have to bear with language issues like in M'sia where ministers talk about switching from Malay to English for a few years and then back to Malay again, AND on top of that, you guys (I presume) study in English compared to us Malaysians who do everything in Malay.
What happened, folks? :/
Needless to say, I got a shock. Listening to Ris Low brought back many memories of me sitting in front of the telly condemning numerous Malaysian beauties during beauty pageant shows like Miss Universe and Miss World. These girls are representing the country, going up to people and saying things like how English is widely spoken in our country and/or is one of the official languages but they can't string a grammatically correct sentence together.
To be honest, I hadn't expected this from a Singaporean. And I'm not complaining about the accent - that is a given. But saying things like "studying steel" when she actually means that she is still studying, heh? And the diction...omg.
Your government push for the English language to be incorporated into many facets of life from politically, legally to even socially and academically. You don't have to bear with language issues like in M'sia where ministers talk about switching from Malay to English for a few years and then back to Malay again, AND on top of that, you guys (I presume) study in English compared to us Malaysians who do everything in Malay.
What happened, folks? :/