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Writer and founder of an English language tuition centre took to Facebook last Friday (July 24) to lay out several arguments on why Singlish — the colloquial patois of Singaporeans — needs to be, in his opinion, “cancelled”.
Naturally, not all agreed with Johann Loh’s perspective and they made it clear through hundreds of comments and shares of his post.
Loh listed eight reasons to quash Singlish from our lexicon, most of which related to raising the national culture above the condescension and juvenile humour he associates with the vernacular.
As the founder of Academia English & Writing Centre (and as someone who graduated from Princeton University among other academic achievements), Loh took aim at Singlish’s roots in “bad English”.
“It’s a mausoleum to our former inability to master English and in many respects, an extended satire of our former shame,” he argued, stating that particles like “lah” and “lor” are “various sounds and gestures to replace complex vocabulary”.
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