Singlish is a commonly used language for most Singaporeans. Words like "Shiok", "Leh" , "Lah" , "Loh", is the most common words that you might have listened before, right? They are the short terms of some words such as "Relaxing" for "Shiok", " Can a not?" for "Leh" . But, I think that those Singlish words are quite nonsensical to use when you speak to a Caucasian using those words. They simply do not understand what are you talking about and they might think you are crazy and call the police to report about it. Worse situations if you are very Singlish and happen to meet a Caucasian cilent to discuss over a million dollar deal, I bet your boss might blame you for losing the deal and retrench you from the job after that!
So, let's speak proper English, not proper Singlish. Singlish is a very terrible, terrifying language, you may use it to communicate with Singaporeans, but don't use it to communicate with Caucasians.
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