Merlions with booties...
A news snippet from a couple of days ago read: “Singapore's prime minister launched the country's latest behaviour modification campaign on Friday, urging teachers to use hip-hop and rap music to teach proper English and warning that continued use of the mutated local form of the language could make Singaporeans unintelligible”.
Lets see now, watching BBC or Discovery Channel and paying attention to the diction could have been one solution. Stricter rules in schools, reprimanding students using Singlish could have been another. Rap and hip-hop?????
Sample hip-hop song (Candy Shop by 50 Cent):-
I take you to the candy shop
I'll let you lick the lollypop
Go 'head girl, don't you stop
Keep goin 'til you hit the spot (whoa)
Next generation mutated version (Aunty Shop by Feeti Sen):-
I take you to aunty shop meh,
Can lick lollipop orredi leh,
You go first, sorrrry ah, cannot stop,
Hit the spot, can or not?(wah lau)
More coherent? * shudder *
Lets see now, watching BBC or Discovery Channel and paying attention to the diction could have been one solution. Stricter rules in schools, reprimanding students using Singlish could have been another. Rap and hip-hop?????
Sample hip-hop song (Candy Shop by 50 Cent):-
I take you to the candy shop
I'll let you lick the lollypop
Go 'head girl, don't you stop
Keep goin 'til you hit the spot (whoa)
Next generation mutated version (Aunty Shop by Feeti Sen):-
I take you to aunty shop meh,
Can lick lollipop orredi leh,
You go first, sorrrry ah, cannot stop,
Hit the spot, can or not?(wah lau)
More coherent? * shudder *
posted by dUh at 2:05 AM
7 Comments:
u knw ure treading on dangerous grounds... i for one think singlish is just wonderfulllllllll.. its something that shld be not deleted from a singaporean's profile, like chicken rice and laksa. loved ure little translation ausso meh!
Hahahhaa! Why you so lidat wan?? :D
dude... just finally thought i'd read your blogs.. well i think singlish is good too.. its direct, straight to the point and so much more efficient getting rid of all the redundancies and noise in normal conversations.... but anyways... hip hop and rap... those black dudes have more lingos than singlish... a bad bad example by lee i'd say!
Hey SR,
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Can or not?
yeah... update!!!
hellooo... ! very funny .. had me laughing out loud.. as did the "fairer sex" blog..and now i know who you are:P !
That was really funny!
ps: one other line in that colorful song goes..."I melt in your mouth, girl, not in your hand"
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