What is Singlish?
Simply put, a colloquial version of English unique to Singaporeans. It may contains words from various languages or dialects such as Malay, Hokkien and Cantonese. The grammatical structure of Singlish is also rather economical as you'll see verbs and pronouns juxtaposed to defy everything you've previously learnt.

But how can you mangle the language like that?
As mentioned, it's economical. And sometimes the structure of a sentence in Singlish closely resembles a Mandarin sentence structure. All in all, probably a result of the bilingual educational policy here. But lest you think Singapore is a land of illiterates who flunked English in school, most people know when and where to use proper English. Singlish is just a more relaxed and conversational version.

Some Singlish expressions*

Beo Look at Blur Confused Bo No / Don't have / Or not Bo hiu Ignore Bo lang No one / Deserted Bo liao / Bo liow Got nothing better to do Bo lui Broke, out of money Buaya Flirt (of the preying variety) Buey heow Don't know how (to) Buey sai Cannot Cheh / Chey Big deal Chin chai Up to you, anything goes Chio gao peng / CGP Laugh till you fall off the chair Dao Proud / haughty Dun Don't Farnee Funny Got An affirmative verb Har Is it Heong Powerful Kiasi Afraid to die Kiasu Afraid to lose out Kok n. A silly person v. Bonk on the head Lai Come

Lai liow Coming Lebber Level Liao / Liow Already Luan luan Anyhow, without care Mai A negative reply, eg. "no thanks" Makan n. Food v. Eat Marnee Money Mati Die, perish Mm zai I don't know Nebber Never Orr / Orh OK Pa buey si Invincible (in combat) Siam Avoid, get out of the way Sian Sick of (something) Siao / Siow Crazy, demented Siao liow / Siow liow We're in for it now Sim tia Heartache Simi What Simi tai ji? (SMTC) What is it? What do you want? Tau tia Headache Tomolo Tomorrow Wahlau An exclamation, like "Geez" Wun Won't

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