I've been trying for DAYS to remove the stealth.Hijack! virus from my com but to no avail. I've been trying to crack spyware programs and search online forums for help but nothing seems to be working. It's causing porn to appear on my com. BAH.
I watched the opening ceremony of the 117th IOC meeting today. I must say that I'm appalled at the SOC President's English. Hello, you're under scrutiny of delegates from Paris, Moscow, Madrid, London and NYC. You DON'T mess up your "r"s and "l"s at big events like this. It's collaboration, not corraboration. You don't pause when you're not suppose to pause. When it comes to a comma, you pause for a while. When you have a fullstop, you pause longer. YOU DO NOT PAUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SENTENCE FOR NO REASON. I could see Raul in the audience getting bored. Okay, maybe that's cos he can't really speak English, but STILL. The speaker wasn't even making any attempt to make eye contact. What a shame.
People who stand at assembly with me will know how peeved I get when the people up there do not speak good english. Especially councillors. There's this new 38th girl who goes up to read all the announcements and screws up all her intonations, such that she sounds like a machine, but broken. I hate it especially when people don't pronounce the "th" sound properly, and it becomes either a 't' or a 'd'. (De tree leeter peegs) The vowel that ought to be LONG is the "e" not the "i". (Seat=seet, not sit) When you pronounce words with "ed" in them, the sound ought to come out as a "t", in order to stress the past tense.
Sorry if I sound totally obnoxious, but that's how Queen's English should be. Don't mutilate it. Singlish is fine, but only if you prove you can speak proper english at the same time. I particularly hate people who TYPE in bad english, spelling words all wrong, and intentionally too. iF Eu tYpE lyK diS, get the hell out of my sight. I don't claim that I have perfect pronunciation, diction, intonations etcetc but at least I know what to do when delivering a speech, and I know the basics. Singaporeans should just crawl in a hole and die.
Vanessa Lim 2:15 p. m.
