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Re:A newly updated index ranks English proficiency around th... by henrikschroder on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @02:52AM (#21750535)
Yeah, sorry, I should have flipped the is and isn't so the examples followed the right one...

And you're probably right that the bias in the study skews the results.

Another possible angle is how you measure "correct" English. American English and British English are technically two separate languages with separate rules. Should you measure the correctness of a Singaporean against either of those? Or should you measure them against some Singaporean English standard instead?

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Re:A newly updated index ranks English proficiency around th... by ajdlinux on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @05:55AM (#21751379)
FWIW, the Singaporean government actively tries to encourage "Good English" rather than Singlish, much to the dismay of many.

The Malaysian government doesn't do quite the same type of attempts at social engineering as the Singaporeans, so you don't see quite as many official denunciations of Manglish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Good_English_Movement

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