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Saturday, October 17, 2009

I want to complain.

Firstly, I want to shoot that weird woman on the bus the other day.
She apparently thinks she knows everything about the four main languages of Singapore.
I do not claim to know everything she does, but I do have issues with the stuff she said.
(I like languages.)

I don't know much about Tamil so I shan't really talk about it. (Sorry.)

"You know Chinese? Chinese they have alphabets..."
Um, NO.
There is no alphabet in the Chinese language.
There is no fixed set of letters that can be pieced together in various ways to form words, which form sentences when pieced together.
(Strokes do not count. Strokes are strokes, letters are letters.)
Just to confirm my theory, I googled "Chinese alphabet".
If you want to argue, here it is.
Chinese alphabet
Chinese alphabet for you~? -.-

"You know Malay, they don't have alphabets, it's like romanised English..."
!?!?!?!?!?
Koped straight off wiki:
"In linguistics, romanization or latinization, alternately spelt as latinisation or romanisation (see spelling differences), is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system (or none).
Examples of languages to which this process is often applied are Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Sanskrit."

As far as I know, this doesn't fit the language structure of Bahasa Melayu.
Certainly, English must be rather complicated to romanise if the English alphabet itself is based on the Latin alphabet.
I could be wrong. I am not, after all, a linguist.
Maybe I just had issues with the way she was talking so knowledgably like she was a real linguist.
Maybe I was just annoyed randomly and she became the unlucky victim of my random annoyance, in which case I would of course apologise very very sincerely.

*flips hair*
I just feel sorry for the poor foreigner she was speaking to who probably swallowed everything she said.
Bleh. >P

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Second complaint is about public transport and apathy of Singaporeans ):
I do not appreciate the way I was left to rot in 961 for an estimated time of fifteen to twenty minutes AFTER everyone had got off AND the bus had parked in the interchange AND the bus driver had locked up the bus and left T~T
OK so while the bus driver could have checked a bit more carefully, it's not entirely his fault. Maybe he needed to pee badly D:
Why didn't any of the other passengers wake me up ):
Or maybe they all needed to pee badly. D:
In which case, we should probably be looking a little more closely at the loss of bladder control in humans today.
Sigh.

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*is a happy girl after watching the MV and comeback performance*

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