Thursday, August 16, 2007

搞乜


I was shocked to see the Chinese (Singpore) option in the Windows Regional Setting. I have no idea how it differs from others but it just don’t feel right. No doubt Singaporean is well-known for their Singlish with kiasu that most used words (I guess). Their proficiency in Mandarin isn’t sth that you and I would be impressed. Maybe I should find out from our friends in SG.
Or maybe I should try to key in kiasu for the pinyin and it might pop up ‘怕输’. Who knows.

4 Comments:

Blogger Nightraveller said...

you are mean! hahaha
But Isnt Macau a strange category too? Hmm, special input for pou tat?

August 16, 2007 7:50 PM  
Blogger [SK] said...

i can understand HK and Macau, as they are using some non-standard chinese words which they created themselves.. but Singapore - i never think they are so creative in chinese (pure chinese i mean, of course they are always creative in mangling chinese+english+hokkien..)

August 17, 2007 1:19 PM  
Blogger Grace Lee said...

They are singaporean ma. Need to be first in every damn thing. They got "Singlish" and this "Singnese" they cant let it go too... 真是名副其实的 Kiasu!

August 20, 2007 4:27 PM  
Blogger shirls said...

ha ha !! I guess in general, it also portrays that Chinese people have this divisive tendency. 中国人的丑陋。We are all Chinese, why we have to distinguish ourselves from each other.

October 11, 2007 12:13 AM  

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