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10-01-2007, 09:00 AM
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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." |
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10-01-2007, 09:21 AM
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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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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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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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10-01-2007, 04:47 PM
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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..
hmm,:handsup: | |
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10-01-2007, 05:02 PM
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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!!
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10-01-2007, 07:51 PM
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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: | |
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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 
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10-01-2007, 10:18 PM
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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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Originally Posted by violette wapiang like tat the signbaord should have include all the different languages all over the world |
then the signboard must be super huge le. :shifty3: | |
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11-01-2007, 12:02 AM
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i think they dun like tamils
very offending, indirectly
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11-01-2007, 12:19 PM
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i dunno wad to say leh. but i feel that they should put the tamil language.. not fair to the tamils in SG. wait they think sg govt not fair to them..
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11-01-2007, 03:15 PM
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maybe indian not welcome?
cos they every year giv us troubles? is that wat they mean -.-?
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15-01-2007, 12:30 PM
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I think it's because Japanese make up a huge percentage of expatriates and tourist who comes here every year. German, France or other Caucasian tourist still have a chance of being able to read English.
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yah lor..
maybe because there are more japanese tourists?
well you never know..
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Such racists..
Tamil is the main language of Indians, the rest are juz dialects.. Juz like how Chinese is our main language and the rest like hokkien, canto, are juz dialects..
They might as well include Tamil inside, its juz one sentence afterall..
Or if they wanna include japanese, they might as well include all e other different languages.
Which is better? Include Tamil and no complains and watsoever abt it, or include japanese and let singaporeans n tourists from country other than japan feel that they'r being treated unfairly?
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why tamil is removed ? and replace with jap
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it's just not fair lor.. theire excuse with the tourists are just bullshit la... just because most of our tourists are japanese... so what? now they're neglecting singapore's own languages just becus of "japanese tourists"... then i think that they'll need a big BIG board to have all the languages on it...
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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: |
I agree with enDlessly.... :rock:
We should be proud of SG for having so many races livin together in harmony... & this should be the unique part of SG we should show other people..... but it seems that :shifty3: "certain SX TOURXXX BOARD" are not selling this point to other people in the world..... it's making us like a place of no culture, but actually we have tones to show ppl "Jus travel to SG = travelling to lots of place in the world" ...
From the pic above why is it only japanese languages... does tat means only japanese tourists visit ECP? others country tourists don't? :handsup:
Like in Japan or korea or those other country usin their own languages... it's only those city area they will put english which is the international language for tourists.... in other area... they dun even bother if you understand their language & yet people still visit those places.... and we are thinking wow!... cool! they have their culture.....
We ourselves are not proud & respecting the 4 races languages.... why would other people give a damn about us?:notimpressed2: why do they keep emphasize... 4 races to other people?
No offence... jus my 5cents worth..... XD
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