I pronounce things correctly as according to the English language. So...people who pronounce things differently are saying it wrong or rarely I say it wrong.
Some of the more common things I hear are people adding L's after W's (Draw sounds like "Drawl" and D's after N's. Other than that I live in a state that doesn't really have an accent.
I tend to vary between proper English (trappings of being a cookie cutter student from a top school) and our obnoxious Singaporean accent when I get lazy. We stress wrong syllables, mangle our words, and then toss in a whole plate of our own words that we have scourged from other languages. As a result, Singlish is practically incomprehensible to most foreigners.
Also we add in a lot of peculiar sounds that allows us to sniff out a Singaporean wherever we are in the world.
Hor, Lah, Leh, Meh, Mah, Har, Siah, Siao, they would make the Bard spin in his grave.
I couldn't put into words how we speak, so here's some quick Wiki grabbing.
- Singlish is syllable-timed compared to most traditional varieties of English, which are usually stress-timed. This in turn gives Singlish rather a staccato feel.
- There may be greater movement over individual syllables in Singlish than in other varieties of English. This makes Singlish sound as if it has the tones of Chinese, especially when speakers sometimes maintain the original tones of words that are borrowed into Singlish from Chinese languages.
There has been a good thing to it all:
Generally, these pronunciation patterns are thought to have increased the clarity of Singlish communications between pidgin-level speakers in often noisy environments, and these features were retained in creolization.
I would guess that you say all Y's as L's then. Which I've never understood. L /= Y. Why would you make an L sound when you see a Y? "Yell-o" is how you pronounce Yellow btw
I would guess that you say all Y's as L's then. Which I've never understood. L /= Y. Why would you make an L sound when you see a Y? "Yell-o" is how you pronounce Yellow btw
i was 4 dude and that was the only y that turned into a L. Now i just say every R into a W Ex. Rainbow or what i say Wain/bow
togetic, I say it to-jet-ic. from pokemon. my friends pronounces salmon sal-mon. my 8th grade science teacher pronounces bag like ba-eg or beg. I say not-re dame when it's not-er daum or something like that.
