Quick, someone please send dictionaries to SPH's reporters

[Confuseous]

So why was the "s" word so studiously avoided? Simply put, there are no strikes in Singapore, period. Flooding is also a thing of the past, the politically correct term is "ponding". Both Kishore Mahbubani and Lee Kuan Yew have, on different occasions, boasted to the world that there are no beggars on Singapore streets either. The auntie asking you for a dollar for a packet of tissues is not begging, she's part of the nation's entrepreneurial force, advancing the country's GDP for the better good of all. So long as you are on the Matrix blue pill, housing is affordable and health care is subsidised.

The Straits Times initially reported the story with the heading, "200 SMRT bus drivers refuse to go to work over pay issue". The English word for that descriptive is strike, defined in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press as "when workers refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels or job losses". The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English explains: if a group of workers strike, they stop working as a protest against something relating to their work, for example how much they are paid, bad working conditions.

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg/2012/11/first-strike.html

 

[SingaporeNINJA]

Strike means just that - strike.

No amount of twist and turn in words will change that perception.

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. what do you expect from some sub-std journalists?
3. who are still waiting for instructions from its grand masters.
4. just ball-less & kosong professionalism!

 

[Discovery]

SPH : We found the word rephrase instead.

 

[zhihau]

hehehe... the Braddell Prostitutes at their best...

 

[PROFILER]

SPH : We found the word rephrase instead.

SPH needs to check with high up first or heads will roll.