What's your favourite Singapore Phrase?

[Spendrik]

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[gillian_2106]

haha.. i tend to use the phrase "How ah" alot in my workplace... esp, wen i complain/goppisp wid my colleagues about other colleagues!! haha.. alwas ask em, "so How ah am i going to survive workin wid her"? heheh..

[mSPOON]

i'm the one doing all the shopping so it's "got discount or not". But actually it's "how much" first.

[lightning]

I always go 'How ah?' too. Somehow this is a very common phrase for me especially when im thinking of a particular question or asking students how they are going to go about solving their problems or disputes.. *grinz..*

[Kosmicheskaya]

You left out "I'm going to complain!" and "Wait I sue you then you know!"

[-Glen-]

For me it's 'so how?' because as a generation brought up in a plethora of choices everywhere we always get to choose. That makes me very fickle minded and everytime I want to go out or do something that will be question I ask to everybody after much useless discussion.

Why don't have 'Shiok'?

[gillian_2106]

how come there is no "Go n Die ah" phrase? heheh

[Bored_Dad]

How about:

"You eat what?"

"Scuse Me"

"Go where?"

"Go where eat?"

"Aiyah"

"Ayioh"

All the "Umm", "Lah", "Leh", "Arh", "Hor", "Huh?"

Many people favourite: "WTF!" Break down the abbreviation.

Some will simply ask: "Got discount?"

"Don't like that lah!"

"Got what!"

The more recent classic hit: "Nong Nong Ago!"

[imastomper]

mine is 'siao lah!'

[missbennet]

With so much BS around, 'real or not' is my fave...not that Miss Austen would have approved.