wide array of death euphemisms

[Grant Barrett]

On Sep 1, 2004, at 13:41, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> Singlish (Singapore English) is absolutely no basis for
> comparison.[...] "Things could
> always be worse" is no excuse.

When receiving messages, I am primarily concerned with my ability to
comprehend, so Singlish blog posts are, for me, good examples of texts
that are difficult to parse, and so are comparable to our
correspondent's. I think that the writers are teenagers may come into
play as much as that they are writing in Singlish.

I am less concerned with our correspondent's lack of punctuation,
capitals, correct orthography, and decorum because I understood her
message to be "do a lot of work for me for no explained reason." That,
in itself, is enough reason to ignore her.

(Can I get my hands on that Singlish data lah? Some of its patterns are
very catching, waaah! Definitely ear- and eye-opening to an ang moh.)

Grant Barrett