Wednesday, 14 September 2016

You Hear Multiple Languages in a Sentence.

Singaporean girl buying ice cream at Orchad
Picture taken on 2 September 2016, 4:32pm
I was queuing behind a girl the other day and I overheard this conversation: 

          - Ice cream uncle: "Eh, so le ai durian ice cream 和一个 potong ice cream, red bean si boh?"
          - Girl: "Yes, 谢谢 uncle." 

This is something many Singaporeans associate with and indeed, many of us do use multiple languages or dialects in a sentence, myself included.

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