The Singapore Codeword

Teenagers like us these days tend to use Singlish frequently that is highly discouraged in the academic settings. It may come in the form of spoken or written in our day to day conversation. Reasons for such phenomenon is unknown to me but is an unique trait of all Singaporeans. Due to such ubiquitous use, dictionaries that explain these terms are available. One such dictionary is called “The CoxFord Singlish Dictionary” and can be found at here. It may sound ridiculous but it actually exists.

Apart from Singlish, the extensive use of abbreviations is very common. In particular, conversations over the MSN. Such practice might cause the Turing test to fail almost immediately. In case you are wondering what Turing test is, below gives a brief description extracted from Wikipedia:

“Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.”

Not only will it cause earlier work to become obsolete, it also hinders communication with people from different background and age group. Sometimes, I myself do not understand some terms as well… Maybe I’m getting old le… Haha…

Lastly, like to touch a bit on the underlying meanings of some words used by gals. Below are some of the interesting words I have found online. Maybe our female classmates can enlighten us on its reliability.

Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you're welcome. (This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome'. that will bring on a 'whatever').

Whatever: Is a woman's way of saying F- - - YOU!

Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response, it would be nothing (refer above).


Below a funny video on Singapore development story... Enjoy...