> In article <45aa591f_2@news.tm.net.my>,
> The Dude thedudelives.com> wrote:

>> rm800 smackers?!?!?! chiiiiickenchop!!! suka suka hati dia je wanna
>> jackup the price like that!

>
> You know, the great thing about Singlish is the fact that it contains
> just enough information that I can sort of figure out what people are
> actually saying, without actually having to know the three or four
> languages that you need to be able to speak to be able to actually
> understand it.
>
> Which is much simpler than modern Tagalog where people speak in about
> half-and-half Tagalog and English so that all you get is "blah blah
> blah blah words words blah blah and then it all just kind of fizzled
> out! Blah blah words words" and you have to just guess what happened
> in the...