SINGLISH: The Phenomenon of Linguistics in Singapore

Summary from: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/singlish.html

            Singapore is situated in South-east Asia. Since long time ago strategic place of Singapore has attracted western people to come. History noted down that British conquered Singapore that they took control in that country. Since then, the colonial government encouraged people to come to the Singapore. As the result, even to date, Chinese ethnics were the largest community in Singapore, followed by Indian and Malay.

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Analysis of the Poem “From Pamphilia to Amphilantus”

A. Poem

Original version

From Pamphilia to Amphilantus

When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove,
And sleepe (deaths Image) did my senses hyre,
From Knowledge of my selfe, then thoughts did move
Swifter then those, most swiftnesse neede require.
In sleepe, a Chariot drawne by wing'd Desire,
I saw; where sate bright Venus Queene of Love,
And at her feete her Sonne, still adding Fire
To burning hearts, which she did hold above,
But one heart flaming more then all the rest,
The Goddesse held, and put it to my breast,
"Deare Sonne now shoot," said she: "thus must we winne;"
He her obey'd, and martyr'd my poore heart.
I waking hop'd as dreames it would depart,
Yet since, O me, a Lover I have beene.

( www.allpoetry.com )

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My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun - poem -- analysis

In this sonnet Shakespeare compares his mistress' eyes to the sun. He makes the case that her eyes are very different from the sun. Though the sun is beautiful and glowing, it has little in common with his mistress' eyes. Though they may be beautiful, reality is that they can't be compared to the sun. In short, the eyes are nothing if compared with the sun.

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Silent Snow, Secret Snow - An Essay

          Silent snow, secret snow is a short story written by Conrad Aiken and published at 1934. It tells about a twelve-year-old boy as the main character, Paul Haselman, who had peculiarity in his mind. He found a delightful way in creating his own world which was different with the reality. In that world, he was isolated himself there and enjoying the snowy world. In case, his parents noticed that his behavior was changed and tried to have a better communication towards Paul. But Paul had already enjoyed his other world and did not want to have the consultation with the doctor. In the end of the story, it tells that Paul was getting closer to his imaginary world.

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When “Ladies First” Comes in Advertisement

           Public becomes smarter and smarter today. It turns out in a fact that, even in trading, people need to spend their time to think further in buying or selling things. This happens because people do not want to be tricked by the marketing when they are going to buy things. Vice versa, the sellers are also smart enough to do the marketing in promoting and selling their things – even the things are not that good as in the advertisement. Therefore, the use of language is really powerful in marketing world to guide people in selecting things before buying.

            Talking about marketing and the existence of advertisement in trading, the use of language is a key to achieve their success. Moreover in this wired era, the seller should be attractive to get the consumers’ attention not only in real world, but also in the virtual one. As we know, the elements of an advertisement are not limited by the picture and the classification of the product only. It also needs a beautiful arrangement of words to attract the readers. The use of sensitive words is also often found in advertisement. One of the examples is in Pulsar’s advertisement. The advertisement of Pulsar as a motorcycle is provocative. It uses a phrase “Cewek Duluan” or “Ladies First” to describe that their men-designed motorcycle is better than women-designed. Therefore, the use of that phrase in Pulsar’s advertisement contains gender bias. It can be analyzed from anthropomorphism, socialization, and culture point of view.

            The first way to analyze it is by using anthropomorphism. As been said by Goddard and Mean in Intertext (2009:6), “Anthropomorphism means giving something a human shape and describes another kind of projection that we often see in language”. In other words, we can say that anthropomorphism is a way to humanize thing that is inhuman. In this case, Pulsar is a motorcycle that is designed for men in Indonesia and its advertisement is using the word: ladies which means the advertisement makers describes that product as if it is a man and describes other motorcycle products as women. Why is it called as provocative or gender sensitive?

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Say, This is a Rehearsal -.-" #1

       I don't know what should I do in every GENDER and ELT CLASS!! Well, I do love the teacher. The way she is teaching is understandably. But.., I know nothing about the concept of gender in English Language Teaching T.T Last meeting, or even today's meeting, I always try to decode what is in my handbook. However, the result is just the same: TRYING HARD TO GET THE MAIN IDEA -.-"

       The chapter that we dealt with was about "The Language and the Mind". For me, it was such kind of connection between our mind and the language we are produced. But then, I found out that -yeah- even a word, we process it in our brain first. It was not produced coincidentally :-D Yapp.., the truth is that we can produce language automatically, but not accidentally we can sound =)

      Hahaha.. sounds weird. But that's the truth :-D
      And now, I'm taking Gender and Language Class.. Wish me luck ya.. hahaha..

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Make Some Room for Homeschooling

“My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” – Thomas Alva Edison

            The above quotation was said by Thomas Alva Edison after he was expelled from his previous school just because his mind often wandered during the class. His mother ensured him that it was not the end of the world that he could not get the formal education. His mother believed that Edison was special. He was an extraordinary person even he got terrible hearing problem not long after the expelling moment. Thus, she home-schooled Edison until he succeeded in inventing many new mass communication devices.

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Should National Examination be Eradicated?

             It becomes widespread today that students in the last grade of high schools get into panic every year by national examination. They are very anxious and nervous by the coming exam. Students tend to spend most of their time by studying specific subjects and following any courses. National examination became a hot topic after it had to be the students’ graduation standard. Students who cannot reach higher score than the standard should take a high risk as failed. Furthermore, the graduation standard has increased year by year. Therefore, the government should eradicate national examination because it cannot be the school graduation standard and burdens the students a lot.

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Mentally Ill Students

              Can we imagine if there is a boy, who is sitting in the back corner of the classroom, suddenly getting angry and ruining the class? This incident rarely happens and just a few people aware of its existence. That boy who is suddenly in anger has his own label as mentally ill person. Mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate others functioning. Just like diabetes which has the disorder of pancreas, mentally ill person has disorder way of thinking and feeling. It is also unable to be detected since very beginning. The sudden attack surely harms the surrounding. Therefore, mentally ill students should immediately be expelled from school.

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Personal Characters by Recreation Places

               Stress or being bored by stagnant activity is the biggest problem that should be treated seriously because it will suffer and ruin the regular job or activity. Having leisure time to get recreation is one of the solutions to deal with stress. Some people feel that they need time to refresh their minds. Each person has different place to go when he/she does recreation. The place which is chosen can reveal the characters of that person. There are three most visited places for examples to know someone characters.

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Learning by Various Intelligences

Education is changing. In this global era, everyone has thought that education is the most important thing to have. School is a common place to get a mountain of information. Nowadays, people realize schools are covered by classic things, such as in scoring, giving explanations, and also from the media used. This reality is in opposite with some educationalists invention that basically each person has miscellany styles in learning, based on their intelligences. Those types of learning can be classified to cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. According to the educationalists invention, government should ask schools to apply those three types of learning than keep apply the classics.

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When Women Talk

Women are naturally different to men since they were born. The most distinctive thing between them is their powers that generally men are much stronger than women. This condition is one of several reasons gender discrimination happens. Women labors at factory is an example of discrimination often happens, especially in term of wage, chance for promotion and lose their job after having free days for giving birth. Another case is sexual harassment that often happens to some of women labors who have night shift work. These discriminations give some effects towards the women labors. Less productive, psychological problem and the difficulty of being promote are some examples of the effects.

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Facebook Makes Distance Nothing

Nowadays people prefer to share their feeling in virtual world than write down in their own notes. It makes social network being popular and useful. Facebook is one of social networks which provides some creative features. It shows what the member’s opinion and other members can give comment on it. Some people say that Facebook is not effective for people, especially for students. Different to it, in my opinion, the advantages of Facebook are far outweighs the disadvantages. The advantages can be divided into three important things.

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Preface

     Never say NEVER!! Those three words become my inspiration to have my new account in a weblog. Sure, I have ever had some accounts, but then it just gone with the wind. And what do I have to do is just create the new one #hurraayy.. Alhamdulillah :)

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