Why did you set up a Facebook page to support Singlish?
SGSM: All thanks to Speak Good English Movement 2010 lor, what else! Once again, Singlish and bad English get thrown into the same basket, and no one in power bothers to tell them apart. This creates a lot of confusion for the rest of us. On the one hand, Speak Good English Movement chairman Goh Eck Kheng admits that Singlish is part of being Singaporean and that his target is just ungrammatical English. On the other hand, the gahmen still runs around insisting that the more Singlish you speak, the worse your English becomes, and then the economy will suffer. We may become a fishing village again. So, a few days ago, some friends and I were discussing on Facebook about what proper Singlish really was. We kept hearing all these non-Singlish phrases thrown about by powerful people as examples of both bad English and Singlish. The gahmen doesn’t seem to have a clue to what the difference is, and it really doesn’t care. It seems more than happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater. You
