No commas lah
While the topic of punctuation is still fresh, there's something that keeps grabbing my attention. I often see our local papers and other publications making Singlish statements, for the fun of it. For example, "Vote for your gahmen, leh!"
Nothing wrong with that lah. Just that I don't understand why they insist on putting commas before their lehs and lahs leh. Like the example you saw above loh. Now, we already know that Singlish is not proper English liao, so the argument that having a comma is grammatically correct is moot hor. But just ask any Singaporean lah. When speaking, nobody pauses before the lahs and lehs mah.
Not true meh?
Nothing wrong with that lah. Just that I don't understand why they insist on putting commas before their lehs and lahs leh. Like the example you saw above loh. Now, we already know that Singlish is not proper English liao, so the argument that having a comma is grammatically correct is moot hor. But just ask any Singaporean lah. When speaking, nobody pauses before the lahs and lehs mah.
Not true meh?
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Good point... its something that has always bugged me. Never did think about the fact that it may be there to make it more gramatically correct, but you are right, thats probably it, *pause* lah.
Which is like you said, completely a moot point, *pause* what.
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