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90% tax? Might as well go the full course and tax 100%! AFP - Friday, March 20WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Swept up by a wave of populist economic anger, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted Thursday to slap a 90 percent tax on bonuses for top executives at bailed-out firms like AIG...

another thing I don't understand and don't agree with is how some Korean/Jap dramas can be shown in dual sound, while canto and hokkien ones are not? so many impressionable young kids are learning jap/korean in school. again I assume this is allowed because of economic benefit.

Are you the old fart writing in pseudonym? It reflects on your ignorance as much when you make statements as such, basing conclusions upon your or your offspring's ability, or lack thereof. I am a product of the y-generation education system here, and I have no problems speaking at least 2...

or how about mugaLEE, ayatoLEE, hitLEE

haha uncle you're right la. among us 'youngsters', i think i'm the only one who knows who is and watches 豬哥亮.

I think they have 9 tones instead of 7, the cantonese. perhaps it is too deeply embedded in their subconscious mind that it comes naturally to them, so they can't explain it to you?

another recent taiwanese success 海角七號 was also mainly in hokkien/taiwanese, and it did really well in box office receipts. btw I didn't watch it in SG, was it dubbed into mandarin here?

not true. ch48 on starhub, for instance, beams programmes from HK TVB. granted, the serials they show are not the latest from HK, but still nothing is curtailed. ditto the taiwanese channels, I think there's one hokkien channel now showing exclusively hokkien dramas from taiwan. if all else...

in the 1700s, an ah tiong official (from Beijing) visiting Taiwan had this to report: In this place, the language is as birdcall – totally unintelligible! For example: for the surname Liú, they say "Lâu"; for Chén, "Tân"; Zhuāng, "Chng"; and Zhāng is "Tioⁿ". My deputy's surname Wú becomes...

don't bother la. you know nothing is gonna change. be thankful there's still canto and hokkien un-dubbed shows on starhub cable tv. that's all i watch now. to hell with ch 8 and u

very well-written. love the sarcasm.

setting aside his discrimination against dialects, it is plain obvious how his dual language policy has failed. how many young singaporeans nowadays are able converse well (not even fluently) in Mandarin? Look how often they break out into English because they can't think of the Mandarin...

all hail the great supreme ruler AyatoLEE!

Utter rubbish. You are merely basing your argument on the fact that we should adopt whichever language is used by the prevailing or up-and-coming economic power(s). In other words, we would soon have to learn, besides Mandarin, Indian languages, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil) to impress the BRICs...

you are basing this on theoratical explanation, which is not wrong I must say but far from the truth when it comes to explaining Sinkies learning dialect. If you look at my parents' generation (I was born in the 80s), most of them can switch between hokkien, teochew, canto, and can also speak...

no, I am not confusing the issue at all. You've got the admit the PAP and old fart indirectly control the TV and radio stations that broadcast to us. If not for their rubbish policies, would we not have more dialect fare for viewing pleasure? Now even those imported Taiwanese variety shows...

when you have fuckers like old fart and KMT in Taiwan you get this kind of heritage loss.

For years now for my Chinese entertainment feed I've just been watching the Taiwanese and HK channels instead of 8 and U from Mediacock, and listening to Malaysian Chinese radio stations. Let's all boycott local Chinese TV and radio stations, they're fit for just the PRCs!

I was incensed and infuriated when I heard the old fart on national TV and radio speaking out against dialect use. For many years, I have been sceptical on his dual language and speak mandarin and whatever else mickey mouse policies on language. First of all, it must be inherently wrong to deny...

Fair enough, though I sense this is getting nowhere. Still I am of the opinion the scoreline (not the result) was overly flattering in pool's favour.;) BTW, let me just add that I thought Utd did indeed deserve to lose as they played crap.