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[quote=RITA                    ,16657]Hi Snowbird,Neither Singlish nor Chinglish nor any other -glish are languages. If Singlish or Chinglish are not proper as written languages, people should try to avoid speaking them as oral languages. --------------------------------------------------For a fairly long time, Chinese was separated into spoken language (白话) and written language (文言), everything put into written should be in "written language" with strict grammar rules and uncommon words. This system resulted in slow in spreading civilization and technology, etc. For all the people could speak, but not all could read, especially the Written Language (文言).My point is, it is not good to separate one language into written and spoken languages, especially one of them can hardly be called "language". One of human being's nature is laziness, not all people like or remember to shift the Chinglish or Singlish into English when they write (or type).--------------------------------------------------But I agree that people should be very careful when they write. I remember one of my English teachers once said, "Everything you put into written will be permanent, so, think before you write."Anyway, I will try my best to avoid Chinglish, write or speak. :-) I have already learned a lot from you guys on language, so, thanks![/quote]

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