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10-01-2007, 09:00 AM
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| | Peach ^^
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 | Quote: | | | | | 50-year-old executive officer, Victor Koo was passing by East Coast Park on Tuesday (2 January) when he spotted this signboard. According to Victor, who claimed that he is "usually very observant, this signboard was not there the last time he went there some three months ago".
What puzzled Victor though was not that the sign was newly erected but the languages used. Victor told STOMP that what surprised him most " was that the four languages used on the signboard were English, Chinese, Malay and Japanese while Tamil was totally left out".
Victor asked, "What has happened to Tamil? I think this is a very sensitive issue and they should have at least included Tamil as well."
According to Victor, he has seen similar signs like that at other places of interest such as the botanical gardens.
"It just looks like they are advocating Japanese as one of the official languages. So what if they bring in the tourist dollar? Shouldn't Tamil be included as well," added Victor.
He wonders if "Singapore will start having Korean signs since we're going through this Korean wave now".
When STOMP contacted NParks and Singapore Tourism Board, Kong Yit San, Director of Parks (NParks) and James Tan, Director of Resource Development (STB) gave this joint reply:
"Multi-lingual signs in some of our key parks are part of an initiative between STB and NParks aimed at creating a visitor-friendly environment for our tourists. The languages are chosen to cater to the needs of the widest range of visitors possible, to facilitate their movement around Singapore. Apart from English, such multi-lingual signs include other languages reflecting the profile of visitors from key markets such as China, Indonesia and Japan. The languages used in these multi-lingual signage will be reviewed from time to time to ensure they serve the needs of our visitors." | | | | |  To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. NEW UPDATES - Visit my blog @
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10-01-2007, 09:21 AM
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| | Experienced SGClubber
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these signs are obviously targeted at tourists.
besides, in india, there are so many languages, and tamil is only one of them
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10-01-2007, 11:54 AM
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| | We Live To Learn To Love
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Not to mention in India, Tamil is actually one of the more minor languages... So why are our indian friends studying tamil? Surely not to do business in India? | |
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10-01-2007, 12:56 PM
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| | Experienced SGClubber
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they are studying tamil because tamil is the mother tounge, it is to preserve the cultural heritage and the language itself.
Just like as chinese, we should be proud of learning and mastering mandarin, and not complaining that mandarin is a difficult subject | |
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10-01-2007, 01:52 PM
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| | High IQ guy
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japanese FTW~  | |
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10-01-2007, 04:47 PM
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| | s g s p r e e s . n e t
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by right i thought SG's sign should normally hv english,chinese,malay and tamil? cos afterall our main races are these..
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10-01-2007, 05:02 PM
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| | Mrs Kang-Park
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| Quote: | | | Originally Posted by enDlessly | | | | | by right i thought SG's sign should normally hv english,chinese,malay and tamil? cos afterall our main races are these..
hmm,:handsup: | | | | | YA i tot so too...
by putting japan language up.. meaning... all out tourist including germany,korea,russia... dey shld include those language too!! B I G B A N G fanclub- To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. | |
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10-01-2007, 07:51 PM
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| Quote: | | | Originally Posted by teriyaki | | | | | YA i tot so too...
by putting japan language up.. meaning... all out tourist including germany,korea,russia... dey shld include those language too!! | | | | |
yep. so i'm wondering whats the purpose eh.
if the JAPANESE GARDEN's signboard has japanese language, i can understand le.
but normal signboard..:handsup: . . . view my profile if you want to know more. | |
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10-01-2007, 08:55 PM
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wapiang like tat the signbaord should have include all the different languages all over the world  To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. NEW UPDATES - Visit my blog @
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10-01-2007, 10:18 PM
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| Quote: | | | Originally Posted by violette | | | | | wapiang like tat the signbaord should have include all the different languages all over the world | | | | |
Den we can become "signboard country" as our new nick name lor | |
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10-01-2007, 10:33 PM
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