Lee Kuan Yew: Mandarin will become Singaporean mother tongue

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 11:05

  Originally posted by Rooney9:

  then malay and indians how? force them to learn mandarin?

  I noticed Indians adapt fast to garmen policies and Malays simply try to keep up.How do you force most Singaporeans to do something they dont want to,when the people are already programmed to follow and take orders.

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 11:08

  Originally posted by Uncle4edgar:

  Will CHINA takeover SINGAPORE since Taiwan is supposed to be returned as part of Beijing.

   

  Singaporeans favour democracy why should Singapore speak

  Mandarin?

  China got no policy of annexation and Singapore was never a part of China

• Rooney9

  1 Oct 09, 11:21

  Originally posted by Short Ninja:

  China got no policy of annexation and Singapore was never a part of China

  didnt china invaded tibet in 1959 and forced the dalai lama to flee tibet then?

• SBS2601D

  1 Oct 09, 11:22

  Originally posted by Rooney9:

  didnt china invaded tibet in 1959 and forced the dalai lama to flee tibet then?

  
  That one is different...their claim lies back to the Qing Dynasty.

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 11:27

  Originally posted by Rooney9:

  didnt china invaded tibet in 1959 and forced the dalai lama to flee tibet then?

  What the Chinese are doing to Tibetans is wrong and I am sad for Tibet but I also believe that historically and geographically Tibet should belong to China.Singapore is totaly out of place

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 11:29

  Originally posted by SBS2601D:

  
  That one is different...their claim lies back to the Qing Dynasty.

  
  I guess it all dates back to when China got its name

• the Bear

  1 Oct 09, 11:31

  i still rub my eyes in disbelief..

  i always thought that official languages of zombies was French or Creole and not Mandarin 

• Alpha Omega

  1 Oct 09, 12:43

  He say that Mandarin will be mother tongue.

  I remember another minister said recently that English is the way of the future.

  How sia? English or Mandarin?

• Fantagf

  1 Oct 09, 12:48

  for a long time I thought my mother tongue is Mandarin until the recent couple of years then I was told it is not.    It was education and old oppressive lee that make it sound that Mandarin is our mother tongue.   This influence me.

• mlmersrlosers

  1 Oct 09, 13:21

  no wonder taiwan say we suck china LP

• Rooney9

  1 Oct 09, 13:22

  Originally posted by mlmersrlosers:

  no wonder taiwan say we suck china LP

  yes we suck on mandarin, but they sucks in english lol

• Uraniumfish

  1 Oct 09, 21:40

  LKY is sick in the mind. The mother tongue should be English. After that should be Malay right? Since it is our national language?

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 21:45

  Originally posted by Uraniumfish:

  LKY is sick in the mind. The mother tongue should be English. After that should be Malay right? Since it is our national language?

  
  He is out of his mind to say such thing.English must always stay the first language and mother tongue to each his own cuz we all dont have the same mother

• Uraniumfish

  1 Oct 09, 21:53

  Originally posted by Short Ninja:

  
  He is out of his mind to say such thing.English must always stay the first language and mother tongue to each his own cuz we all dont have the same mother

  Oh. So that is what mother tongue is to you. To me, it is the language that I have been using the most since birth, which is English.

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 23:57

  Originally posted by Uraniumfish:

  Oh. So that is what mother tongue is to you. To me, it is the language that I have been using the most since birth, which is English.

  It is quite confusing isnt it when in other countries you would be known as a native speaker of English.

• Short Ninja

  1 Oct 09, 23:59

  or near native speaker of English