Browsing through the blogosphere, we came across another interesting entry by blogger B!gBEN about English.
Here’s what he had to say:
Talking about what he read in the newspaper one Saturday, B!gBEN reflected on the final year NUS chemical engineering student who was jailed and caned.
He also highlighted another article – “Keeping Singlish at Bay” by John Lui.
Similar to what G blogged about, B!gBEN agreed that “that sometimes when people strive to speak good English with good diction, they end up being deemed as preposterous, ridiculed and worse, ostracized.”
B!gBEN also talks about how it isn’t easy to enunciate words perfectly!
He writes “As for enunciation, it simply means you gotta [sic] start working that tongue and mouth the right way – when it’s time to TH, you TH; when it’s time to -ed a word, you jolly well -ed it. Of course, it’s truly not easy! Especially the TH – if you don’t do it correctly, it simply sounds crap and poser-rish [sic].”
As they say, practice makes perfect!
B!gBEN himself admits that his English isn’t perfect. He says, “Btw, I want to qualify that my ‘England is not as powderful’ as you think…DO NOT hesitate to correct yours truly when you hear me speaking wrongly.”
That’s the spirit B!gBEN! Sometimes, we don’t realise that we are not speaking properly until someone else tells us. Sounds a bit like Boon Huat, doesn’t it? Boon Huat has probably been speaking the way he does all his life and never really had anyone correct his English. And then one day, Hui Min came into the picture. As much as they are like chalk and cheese, Hui Min seems to be getting Boon Huat moving the right direction and of course, providing the much-needed motivation to improve his English! They say opposites attract, but it seems like there’s someone else vying for Boon Huat’s affections as well….
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