Thursday, May 23, 2013

Singapore English Subtitled for the World



This afternoon I watched on YouTube “Bizarre Foods” featuring this city state. All the Singaporeans appearing in the program were speaking in English and some parts were subtitled in English for the people of the world.
Beauty and dissonance may be relative terms, but when you have to listen to dissonant chords, one example of which is the Singaporean (or more precisely Chinese Singaporean) accent, from beginning to end, it is a form of torture. It simply doesn’t sound beautiful to me. Very far from my sense of beauty and grace.

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