LINGUIST List 13.1977

Thu Jul 25 2002

Media: Time Magazine: "Singlish"

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  • Karen S. Chung, "Singlish" in Time magazine

    Message 1: "Singlish" in Time magazine

     Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:57:19 +0800
    From: Karen S. Chung <karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw>
    Subject: "Singlish" in Time magazine


    This week's Asian edition of Time magazine (July 29, 2002/vol. 160 no. 3) has an interesting piece on Singlish, entitled:

    A War of Words Over 'Singlish' Singapore's government wants its citizens to speak good English, but they would much rather be 'talking cock' by Hwee Hwee Tan

    It's available online at:

    http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020729-322685,00.h tml

    If you have trouble with the URL, go to Time's main site at http://www.time.com/, choose Time Asia, then do a search on 'Singlish'.

    The article mentions a movie called _Talking Cock: The Movie_, which should be of interest to anyone studying South East Asian varieties of English. Also notable are the Singlish humor Web site, http://talkingcock.com/, and the recently published _Coxford Singlish Dictionary_, accessible from the 'Talking Cock' site at http://talkingcock.com/html/lexec.php?op=LexView&lexicon=lexicon.



    Karen Steffen Chung National Taiwan University karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw

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