Passenger Accent
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Hi,
With no intention to discriminate anything here, a few times, I cannot understand some foreigners' english, their accent is too deep for me to understand, end up going the wrong place. I wonder if my bros and sisters here had ever come across such cases.
Rex prounounced as Rat, "go Rat building"???
Rendevous as divorce..."go divorce office" so i go fort canning
Si ma road as Simbulu.."Uncle, simbulu" vietgals..haiz..ask again...shouted SimBULU! %^$%&^&^&^&##@ very fierce
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Then u shout back at em. i do that sometimes esp when they have speak farked up english and expect us to understand em.
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I don't have such problems .
Either i know the place , or i dunno the place .
They say , i know , i ask again , confirm , then i sent .
They say , i dunno , then they have to take another cab , or give me a number to call someone that know .
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Originally posted by Tio Call Liao:
Then u shout back at em. i do that sometimes esp when they have speak farked up english and expect us to understand em.
Same for me u dun shout at me i wun shout at u...... my tail very short 1 very hard to step on.......... :P -
Originally posted by bowah:
Si ma road as Simbulu.."Uncle, simbulu" vietgals..haiz..ask again...shouted SimBULU! %^$%&^&^&^&##@ very fierce
Then we have the rights to shout back : " Hello , this is Singapore ." -
Originally posted by Poolman:
Then we have the rights to shout back : " Hello , this is Singapore ."
yup correct~~~ -
Another classic example....Race Course Road, when these Indian expats speak, I hear it as West Coast Road
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Originally posted by bowah:
Si ma road as Simbulu.."Uncle, simbulu" vietgals..haiz..ask again...shouted SimBULU! %^$%&^&^&^&##@ very fierce
So where is Simbulu??? -
Sill remember this drunken ang mo going Jalan Mata Ayer...knn almost 5min before i know he's going jalan mata ayer....japaness raffles hotel- La-fu-lu hotel...
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Originally posted by FT:
So where is Simbulu???
waterloo street, Chinese Si Ma Road,,hokkien si bei lor -
Originally posted by bowah:
waterloo street, Chinese Si Ma Road,,hokkien si bei lor
oh ok ok .....hahahaha....really sound too far... -
UNKLES ah, ur all got mouth can ask rite??
dont give excuse "aiya, i no go skool, i no educated like u go University"
We have 2 except all nationality speaking r different.
If u dont understand /not clear / din hear properly ........ ASK !!
p.s: ON d meter 1st lah .....hehehe
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got ask, but some paxs shouted back at me, some even said I am stupid, do not understand simple english,
No offend, today also got one mynmar at Peninsular going to Doby Ghaut,
Uncle, Do me Good
I am good, where are you going
Do me Good!!!
I am doing good, may I know where you want to go, sir.
kokyee (brother in mynmar), u singaporean do not know Do me good??
Get off my taxi lah...phui
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One day , the richest race in singapore currently boarded a taxi "I want to go to Yam Kar Hotel" TD : "Huh ??? where har ?" "In Orchard Road", replied the pax
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Took one passenger say wanna go bu lok lam in hokkien...I huh many times still dunno where he talking abt...maybe I hokkien no so good but in the end then realise he wanna go bedok south...haha...
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Originally posted by FinallyThirty:
Took one passenger say wanna go bu lok lam in hokkien...I huh many times still dunno where he talking abt...maybe I hokkien no so good but in the end then realise he wanna go bedok south...haha...
, lau hokkien pax, some oldies still using old places name, i can hardly understand, like Or Kio tao, tiong bahru chap luck lau, tiong bahru chap lau, adjunied chap lau, ban kar kah, Cake sen kio, ang sali...wha! -
Originally posted by bowah:
, lau hokkien pax, some oldies still using old
places name, i can hardly understand, like Or Kio tao, tiong bahru
chap luck lau, tiong bahru chap lau, adjunied chap lau, ban kar
kah, Cake sen kio, ang sali...wha!
Old places names i tink common 1s not a prob its the uncommon 1s that they use for places in town tats a real challenge........ :P -
ya agree, those town building names also head pain, but more or less, we can find it in directory or taught ourselves, but this old names no show in directory, got one Jurong East Ang cho teng...where ar??