Saturday, January 2, 2010

WE have a different way of communicating.

 Recently, someone insisted that people uses "hey, u go bath lar!" instead of "hey, you go bathe lar!" That very determined someone also said that both the words can be used in the sentence I mentioned above. 
                          

From what I know, "bath" can be use in a way that a person saying "I'm going to have a bath soon." and "bathe"? Hmm.. It could be used in a sentence such as "I'm going to bathe my cat." But since we're in singapore, normally singaporeans including me would say "ehh. morning never bathe, so dirty" instead of "morning never bath, so dirty." I don't know if this is correct, but that's what me and my friends normally heard. It's pointless to argue for a "bath" and "bathe" since to the Caucasians, Singlish is not English, and it's actually incorrect if we thought the way we speak are actually 100 percent correct. I know.. different culture, but there's only one main language we're using and that is ENGLISH. We all have to improve. :/

                             

I know someone would not argee to what I say, I'll just have to show how those 2 words are pronounced. As from dictionary.com, "bath" is pronounce as "bahth" and "bathe" is pronounce as "beyth." If that determine person don't believe me, I would suggest her to take a look at dictionary.com. There is this speaker icon for people to click and hear the correct pronunciation of the words that they are unsure of.

                        



                     

And. ROFLOL? or ROTFLOL?  It's a usual thing to see both of them.



                     

a "the" in the middle is not much significant. it still meant the same thing. find something else to criticize other than those short forms. =.=



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