The Leeter Spiaking Singlish Book 3: Loanwords
, by Li Sui, GweeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9789815009651 | 9815009656
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/12/2022
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’ .