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It doesn’t appear that SMRT is blaming the train drivers for any of their poor English. In fact, SMRT has encouraged them to make the announcements and not to worry about speaking in good English. That means to say, SMRT is fine with their drivers speaking in broken English too in times of emergency.
That being the case, so what are Minister Shanmugam and Mr Seng talking about? It seems that Mr Seng was trying to repeat what the SMRT officer was saying but did a terrible job by misquoting the officer. Mr Seng then turned around and tried to “disagree” with SMRT over a non-existent event (i.e, SMRT blaming train drivers for their poor English in SMRT’s inadequacy of the response) with Minister Shanmugam backing him. This whole Seng Han Thong’s episode is fast becoming a comedy of errors.
- http://www.tremeritus.com/2011/12/25/minister-shanmugam-tries-to-defend-seng-han-thong/
That being the case, so what are Minister Shanmugam and Mr Seng talking about? It seems that Mr Seng was trying to repeat what the SMRT officer was saying but did a terrible job by misquoting the officer. Mr Seng then turned around and tried to “disagree” with SMRT over a non-existent event (i.e, SMRT blaming train drivers for their poor English in SMRT’s inadequacy of the response) with Minister Shanmugam backing him. This whole Seng Han Thong’s episode is fast becoming a comedy of errors.
- http://www.tremeritus.com/2011/12/25/minister-shanmugam-tries-to-defend-seng-han-thong/