Is LKY able to speak Hakka?

[Velma]

I have only known him to speak English, sub-standard Chinese, Malay and unpolished Hokkien.

And maybe simple Japanese.

 

[Ramseth]

I have only known him to speak English, Chinese, Malay and Hokkien.

By PSLE standard and above, LKY can only speak English and Malay.

Don't joke about him speaking Mandarin Chinese or Hokkien or even Hakka.

 

[Velma]

By PSLE standard and above, LKY can only speak English and Malay.

Don't joke about him speaking Mandarin Chinese or Hokkien or even Hakka.

Edited.

But I thought Old Man's hokkien is quite good cause he practised hard speaking it?

 

[†††††]

huh!! you didn't know he is a Japanese language translator?

 

[Velma]

huh!! you didn't know he is a Japanese language translator?

Forgot about that. Thanks, edited.

 

[Ramseth]

huh!! you didn't know he is a Japanese language translator?

He translated bwteen Malay and English.

SRN translated between Tamil and English.

The Japanese brought their own translators for English to Japanese.

 

[kingrant]

You have got to be joking!

He's born Peranakan, knows shit about Chinese culture and customs and dialects, only learning enough to give people impressions that he knows China's 3000 year history and tradition, and speak gross Hokkien, zilch hakka/cantonese/teochew. He grew up in an Malay-Indonesian-English environment --perfect example of the banana Chink!

 

[wrcboi]

he probs like most young sporns nowadays knows only english and "broken mandarin" and some simple hokkien words.....

 

[Velma]

You have got to be joking!

He's born Peranakan, knows shit about Chinese culture and customs and dialects, only learning enough to give people impressions that he knows China's 3000 year history and tradition, and speak gross Hokkien, zilch hakka/cantonese/teochew. He grew up in an Malay-Indonesian-English environment --perfect example of the banana Chink!

No wonder he kept promoting English with many campaigns and banned shows with dialects.

 

[sally]

I didn't know he speaks hakka.

 

[Sideswipe]

No wonder he kept promoting English with many campaigns and banned shows with dialects.

LKY hated everything Chinese. last time 1950s election rallies, peoples laughed at his awful hokkien / openly ridiculed him from below stage. He mentioned those rallies shame in ST interviews and his books. think he remembered his humiliations and took revenge by destroying SG Chinese culture for personal and political purposes.

 

[Velma]

LKY hated everything Chinese. last time 1950s election rallies, peoples laughed at his awful hokkien / openly ridiculed him from below stage. He mentioned those rallies shame in ST interviews and his books. think he remembered his humiliations and took revenge by destroying SG Chinese culture for personal and political purposes.

And ironically, now he wants Singaporean Chinese to speak more Chinese and feel proud of our culture.

It is akin to Adolf Hitler telling the Germans to embrace and love the Jews.

 

[Ramseth]

And ironically, now he wants Singaporean Chinese to speak more Chinese and feel proud of our culture.

It is akin to Adolf Hitler telling the Germans to embrace and love the Jews.

The difference Germans have reconciled with Jews after Adolf Hitler committed suicide still believing he was right. Only difference was he lost the war. As in humanity, Hitler was a genocidal bastard. As a man who stood and died for what he believed in, he was creme de la creme.

 

[fukyuman]

The city of Palembang is proud of its best known son which is LKY. He was born there and family migrated over to Singapore. I always felt its more than just coincidence that our flags are the same colors as Indonesia.

 

[Papsmearer]

You have got to be joking!

He's born Peranakan, knows shit about Chinese culture and customs and dialects, only learning enough to give people impressions that he knows China's 3000 year history and tradition, and speak gross Hokkien, zilch hakka/cantonese/teochew. He grew up in an Malay-Indonesian-English environment --perfect example of the banana Chink!

Dont' forget, educated in the UK and western culture, when many Chinese families at that time were sending their sons to universities in China. Old Goat is not only a traitor to his country, he is also a traitor to his own race.

 

[Papsmearer]

The city of Palembang is proud of its best known son which is LKY. He was born there and family migrated over to Singapore. I always felt its more than just coincidence that our flags are the same colors as Indonesia.

I thought he was born in Singapore, but his father was born there.

 

[Papsmearer]

I didn't know he speaks hakka.

He doesn't speak anything now, he just mumbles it in a slurred way.

 

[scroobal]

He is quite the linguist. His family besides pernanakan malay spoke a version of hokkein closer to the Penangnites version though a hakka. He is actually more inclined towards the Chinese culture than the English contrary to popular belief and had forced his parents not to give his youngest brother an anglicised name. However politics drives his agenda.

Their links to the Indonesian relatives are very strong and many of them used to stay with hte family.

 

[halsey02]

I have only known him to speak English, sub-standard Chinese, Malay and unpolished Hokkien.

And maybe simple Japanese.

I think the only phrase he knows is : teow ai see futt...

 

[Ramseth]

Samuel Huntington accorded him the ultimate compliment for the record in Clash Of Civilizations, "the best bloody Englishman east of Suez."