French Essay Gaffe
French test today:
Et mon coeur est mort avec mon amour. Je n'ai pas eu quelque raison pour livre.
(And my heart died with my love. I didn't have some raison for book.)
livre = book, vivre = life
This is for all the times I laughed at poor Engrish speakers.
In other, somewhat more gruesome news(thanks to Gary), meet Singapore's sole executioner. I wonder how desperate for employment I would have to be before I took up this job. Also, I wonder what happens when this man dies and no one is left in Singapore who dares to do executions. Will we have to import 'talent' from other countries then? (shudder)
Actually, since most of the people we hang are foreigners who traffic drugs (I think) and are not native Singlish speakers, I wonder how many people died with a puzzled "Huh?" on their lips?
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Hey, did u change ur comment thingy? I think its better now without the pop-up.
Anyhow, the hang-man is Malaysian! So yea...early migrants are of tougher stock...
I mean the guy's retired and he's doing the hangings now like for pocket money. That's kinda like wrong to me...
=) But that's just me.
As a linguistics student, I feel anal retentive enough to point out that there is no variety of English known as 'poor english'
The closest I can suggest is semilingualism, where English is forced upon another language, thus resulting in the speaker being proficient in neither language. However, this is too restrictive, since it would exclude Singlish, which is a recognized variety of English (known as Singapore Colloquial English)
Hence, the only construct generated by 'a poor english speaker' is that of a British beggar.
... you're right, it IS rather anal retentive of you to point that out.
I think the next generation of executioners will be women. Some of them hate men, for strange reasons. And they don't even break a frown when chopping up live chicken.
Putting a rope around someone's neck is like child's play to them. Their asthetic senses might even console the person, by saying "Hey, you've got a pretty neck"
when it comes to women, i think it is fairly reasonable to disregard any thoughts that seet has...
unless he is referring to women in porn flicks...
Gee, I don't know. Porn where girls hang you is a bit too much for me.
Haha you guys have to try that some day.
It will leave you dying for more.
"Singapore's sole executioner" makes me think of someone who puts fish to death for a living.
Hmm.. captchas now, eh? Sick of low airfares?
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