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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 16:33:32 JST Adrianna Tan

   Registered to vote from overseas while lying in bed. If only our democracy worked as well as our technology! :)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 16:42:00 JST Adrianna Tan

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     A huge feature of every election for me has been going to rallies and listening to speeches made by old school politicians in non-English, non-Mandarin languages. To me they represent a robust post-colonial Singapore that has faded, the one of unions and debates, a world before technocracy. Being able to understand the Teochew and Malay speeches felt like a connection into that past.

     https://youtu.be/77hPnqPRTmg

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 16:51:44 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @mayintoronto I once gave a brief political speech in Teochew. Not as good as this guy, but very few people my age and below can speak or understand it at all.

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 16:51:45 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @skinnylatte That's really cool. I don't speak any of my dad's village dialect (Hoklo), but he does speak a bit of Teochiu too. Some days I feel like I've already lost so much Cantonese as well.

     I wonder how long these languages will stick around for. It's hard to keep them up when we're all so far from tradition.