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Following on the success of his 2017 hit, Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate, Gwee Li Sui is back with a series of three " Leeter" books covering the quintessential features of Singlish, Singapore' s unofficial language - written in Singlish!In this third volume, we look at where Singlish words come from: " There are England terms like ' act cute' and ' act blur' whose meanings we tweak, Melayu ones we keep like ' cabut' and ' pakat' , cheena ones we use like ' cheong hei' or translate into England like ' wait long-long' , Tamil words like ' goondu' and ' aiyoh' , distorted Japanese words like ' bakero' , and so on. Then got phrases made with words from different languages that become something lagi tok kong, such as ' buay tahan' and ' jiak kentang' .
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The Leeter Spiaking Singlish, Gwee Li Sui
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- The Leeter Spiaking Singlish
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gwee Li Sui
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 104
- ISBN10
- 9815009656
- ISBN13
- 9789815009651
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrbücher, Karten & Reisen, Hobby, Reisen, Universitätslehrbücher
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- Beschreibung
- Following on the success of his 2017 hit, Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate, Gwee Li Sui is back with a series of three " Leeter" books covering the quintessential features of Singlish, Singapore' s unofficial language - written in Singlish!In this third volume, we look at where Singlish words come from: " There are England terms like ' act cute' and ' act blur' whose meanings we tweak, Melayu ones we keep like ' cabut' and ' pakat' , cheena ones we use like ' cheong hei' or translate into England like ' wait long-long' , Tamil words like ' goondu' and ' aiyoh' , distorted Japanese words like ' bakero' , and so on. Then got phrases made with words from different languages that become something lagi tok kong, such as ' buay tahan' and ' jiak kentang' .