The Leeter Spiaking Singlish: Book 3: Loanwords by Li Sui, Gwee

The Leeter Spiaking Singlish: Book 3: Loanwords (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789815009651)

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The Leeter Spiaking Singlish: Book 3: Loanwords by Li Sui, Gwee

The Leeter Spiaking Singlish: Book 3: Loanwords

$15.99
The Leeter Spiaking Singlish: Book 3: Loanwords by Li Sui, Gwee

The Leeter Spiaking Singlish: Book 3: Loanwords

$15.99
Format: Paperback
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Following on the success of his 2017 hit, Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate, Gwee Li Sui is back with a series of three " Leeter" books covering the quintessential features of Singlish, Singapore's unofficial language - written in Singlish! In this third volume, we look at where Singlish words come from: " There are England terms like ' act cute' and ' act blur' whose meanings we tweak, Melayu ones we keep like ' cabut' and ' pakat', cheena ones we use like ' cheong hei' or translate into England like ' wait long-long', Tamil words like ' goondu' and ' aiyoh', distorted Japanese words like ' bakero', and so on. Then got phrases made with words from different languages that become something lagi tok kong, such as ' buay tahan' and ' jiak kentang' .

Author: Gwee Li Sui
ISBN-10: 9815009656
ISBN-13: 9789815009651
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Editions
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2022
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.60w x 0.60d
By Gwee Li Sui
By Gwee Li Sui
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Dr Gwee Li Sui is a former academic who now labours in the arts as a poet, writer, editor, literary critic and graphic artist. He wrote Singapore's first long-form graphic novel, Myth of the Stone, back in 1993, and has five books of verse to date. He has edited numerous literary anthologies, including Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers (2015).

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