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New PAP Candidate, Potential Minister Chee Hong Tat Is A Hypocrite

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Source: Sin Rak Sin Party

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人民行動黨今天介紹了一條表裡不一的偽君子。他以後將可能成為我們的部長。

PAP has introduced a Hypocrite.
He may become our future Minister if being elected in the coming GE.


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What's new? Just before Election, they are servants. After Election? Fuck you understand? :oIo:
 

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..............."This is why we have discouraged the use of dialects.".......................

Chee Hong Tat
Principal Private Secretary
to the Minister Mentor

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Foolish to advocate the learning of dialects

I REFER to yesterday's article by Ms Jalelah Abu Baker ('One generation - that's all it takes 'for a language to die'). It mentioned a quote from Dr Ng Bee Chin, acting head of Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies: 'Although Singaporeans are still multilingual, 40 years ago, we were even more multilingual. Young children are not speaking some of these languages at all any more.'


To keep a language alive, it has to be used regularly. Using one language more frequently means less time for other languages. Hence, the more languages a person learns, the greater the difficulties of retaining them at a high level of fluency.

There are linguistically gifted individuals who can handle multiple languages, but Singapore's experience over 50 years of implementing the bilingual education policy has shown that most people find it extremely difficult to cope with two languages when they are as diverse as English and Mandarin.

This is why we have discouraged the use of dialects. It interferes with the learning of Mandarin and English. Singaporeans have to master English. It is our common working language and the language which connects us with the world.

We also emphasised the learning of Mandarin, to make it the mother tongue for all Chinese Singaporeans, regardless of their dialect groups. This is the common language of the 1.3 billion people in China. To engage China, overseas Chinese and foreigners are learning Mandarin and not the dialects of the different Chinese provinces.

We have achieved progress with our bilingual education in the past few decades. Many Singaporeans are now fluent in both English and Mandarin. It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and Mandarin.

That was the reason the Government stopped all dialect programmes on radio and television after 1979. Not to give conflicting signals, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew also stopped making speeches in Hokkien, which he had become fluent in after frequent use since 1961.

Chee Hong Tat
Principal Private Secretary
to the Minister Mentor

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20090311-127699.html
 

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beautiful Josephine with that mega smile
will win a thousand votes a thousand hearts a thousand likes
will help pap to win big time in bishan/tp !!!
 

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Chee Hong Tat...he probably was cursing and swearing his Cina ed parents, who are definitely was dialect based, to have given him such a name.

Imagine the ridicule he faced from primary school all the way to upper sec by his schools frds.

No less plague by such memories, the side effects would be so evident that by the time he became an adult and could lead an independent life of his own, he could never escape the shadow of shame he faced from such a name since young.

This is why this person would say that 'never again shall dialect ever surface again' if he had the chance to make it as a LAW! LOLoLoL
 

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He could have given himself an english name if the dialect name was such a curse. no? or did he foresee that one day, he will be running as a MP and the dialect name will be useful?

Chee Hong Tat...he probably was cursing and swearing his Cina ed parents, who are definitely was dialect based, to have given him such a name.

Imagine the ridicule he faced from primary school all the way to upper sec by his schools frds.

No less plague by such memories, the side effects would be so evident that by the time he became an adult and could lead an independent life of his own, he could never escape the shadow of shame he faced from such a name since young.

This is why this person would say that 'never again shall dialect ever surface again' if he had the chance to make it as a LAW! LOLoLoL
 
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