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The rise of Singlish

Singapore tried to make its multi-racial population speak English. They responded by making a hybrid language - Singlish - now 50 years old. By Tessa Wong.

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  • Gozzin
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    Ah now,this is really interesting. It's fun to read about how people mesh languages.

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