The word ‘huh’ will unite the world According to Mark Dingemanse and his colleagues, ‘huh’ is a word that is actually native to all languages. Their fascinating in-depth article talks about the word ‘huh’ as in “Huh?”, or to put it another way “What did you say?” It is claimed that this universal word occurs...
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Why Singlish is So Efficient
Singaporeans are efficient people, and prefer to take less time and words to express themselves. Singlish is the creole version of English spoken in Singapore. Much of its grammatical structure comes from Chinese and a lot of its emphasis words (“lah”, “leh”, “meh”) come from Chinese and Malay languages. It is spoken super-fast, and super-compressed. “Me...
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