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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:10:33 JST Adrianna Tan

   lol I’m at my local SF cafe and a bunch of Singaporean tourists just came in and dropped $80 on toast

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:11:20 JST Adrianna Tan

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     On principle I refuse to spend $12 on a slice of toast (at this place, even tho I come here for coffee) but I guess my compatriots are loaded

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:15:34 JST Adrianna Tan

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     How do I know they’re Singaporean? I can hear them from a mile away. It’s not Singlish as such but there is a very specific way of speaking English that is unmistakably Singaporean. Sometimes that can be an urban Malaysian accent too but if they use certain words, they’re clearly Malaysian

     Example:

     ‘Don’t like that leh’ - 99% of the time, Singaporean Chinese

     ‘Don’t like that, wor’ - usually Malaysian Chinese

     Difference comes down to the choice of Chinese dialects and use of more Malay
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:18:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Most of the time, I associate Malaysian Chinese English with having more Cantonese loan words whereas we have more Hokkien. We also have different Malay loan words that are clear giveaways.

     If someone says ‘wah they very atas’ where atas means ‘rich’ or ‘high class’, that’s usually a Singaporean

     If someone says ‘wah syiok’ emphasis on the ‘sy’ instead of ‘schhhhiok’, that tells me they’re Malaysian

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:18:34 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Nick

     @Nickiquote literally a piece of toast and peanut butter

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     Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:18:36 JST Nick

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     @skinnylatte WTF. Is the toast dusted with cocaine?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:25:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • K-ZO da Snowman

     @kzodasnowman this Japanese gamer made a song about all the bad words she picked up playing dota with se Asians

     It should be the ASEAN anthem

     https://youtu.be/CLudHVOh6wU?si=Re5F9vxbZyVrwQip

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     K-ZO da Snowman (kzodasnowman@spore.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 04:25:31 JST K-ZO da Snowman

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     @skinnylatte interesting! Thanks for the explainer. I once played so much DOTA I picked up adding "la" at the end of sentences from all the SG players. Pure natural speech mimicry

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 05:13:52 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • kkeller

     @kkeller lol we grew up knowing all the exchange rates of major currencies. It’s just a thing.

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     kkeller (kkeller@curling.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 05:13:53 JST kkeller

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     @skinnylatte maybe they aren't fully aware of the price/exchange rate?