An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
The damn thing is good for something after all.
Dear The Real Singapore,
I refer to the article: "WHY SINGLISH HAS TO BE DISCOURAGED"
Being in the Singapore Airforce for many years already. I would like to share with your readers this story of ours which makes Singlish a very powerful and unique identity for us Singaporeans.
The Spore air force went to the US to take part in their Red Flag combat exercise.
For the first three days, our F-16 pilots, no matter how much they planned and prepared, they were always ambushed by the USAF F-15s. Then they realized that the USAF pilots were eavesdropping on their conversations (not disallowed by the rules), so they switched from plain English to Singlish/Chinese/Malay.
Suddenly the F-15s lost their magic, and for the last three days, found no way through the defensive screen set up by our F-16s.
So who says Singlish got no use har?
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16-05-2014, 11:20 PM
RSAF uses Singlish to defeat USAF at Red Flag
