Grass for sale! Grass for sale! GRASS FOR SALE!Love the typeface on the signboard. Very chin-chai-chapalang-whatever kinda cool.
I'd love for some grass at home! Why stick to boring carpets when you can
And then we move on to ambiguous signboards:
Okay, okay, questions: So is it an orchid park or a secondary school? Is it a naval base or a primary school?It's wondrous how two ambiguous signs are within ten paces of each other.
Because I'm an advocate for good English, I'm gonna throw in something about ambiguous phrases and redundant words. I'm just using one example, but I think it works well enough:
The expression 'discuss about'.
You never ever ever discuss about something. You simply discuss something.
To discuss is to 'talk about'. So if you were to discuss about something, you'd be talking about about something. Why would you wanna talk about about something? Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
Therefore, you either say:
1. Let's discuss our weekend plans with them.
or:
2. Let's talk about our weekend plans with them.
Yay! OMG, don't you feel like your English just improved?
Okay, since we're on this note, I might as well say that 'Bukit Merah Hill' is a fucked up phrase.
Bukit means hill.
Merah means red.
Bukit Merah means red hill.
Bukit Merah Hill simply translates to Red Hill Hill. Is that not stupid or what?
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There's a school near me and their mascot is the Los Osos Bears. "Los osos" are bears in Spanish. The "bears bears?!"
Haha!.. That's funny! But kinda cute too, especially in the Singaporean context.
Cute little Bear-Bears! =D
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