I honestly believe
Flying Mom can speak a lot better than she makes us to believe.
Her grammar may not be as good as some, but still it's not your atypical Singlish vocabulary. And hence I believe she is making it up. And it takes someone from Singapore (me) to be able to pick this up.
As I mentioned to
Flying Mom in another thread on the CX forum, it's funny that she can't speak, but yet her spelling is remarkably good.
Her sentence structure is all wrong for someone who speaks 'Singlish' in Singapore.
A case in example:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Randy why your B. Watson allow people to be rude and make fun my english and not do anything?</font>
It should read like this:
"Eh, Randy, sir. How come B. Watson make fun my English and let other people also make fun me. How come you not do anything about it, hah?"
Similarly,
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I wish I can write good, i trying to improve but i also say i don't need be treated this way and moderator do nothing and deny anything wrong. Why also topic get delete? </font>
A true blue Singlish Singaporean speaker should write:
I wish I can write good. Speak good also. I try to improve but I say also you don't treat me like this. The moderator do nothing about it and say nothing wrong also. And why topic got deleted?
Flying Mom perhaps you are not who you say you really are. I mean, why on earth would a woman, supposedly of voting age, would take the time to rant and rave over such an issue as her bad English and bother writing about this to Randy. I mean, come on, this is something that would ruffle the feathers of someone with a more child-like persona than you.
Or better yet,
"WHY LIKE THIS?" sums it all up!
[This message has been edited by Guy Betsy (edited Mar 19, 2004).]